Dilemma: Received parcel, not mine. Poll Please?

Lopéz said:
Courier insurance is very restrictive generally and sender is extremely unlikely to be reimbursed in full as most losses are paid out per kg, unless they have requested extra cover.
So that's like £10-£20 for a camera.....
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Just checked the courier's site and it is £50 by default unless you buy extra cover. However, who in their right mind would send £500 of camera gear with only £50 of cover?
 
If it were from a big online store i would keep it, but as its second hand i would contact the courier and get something sorted out.

Do the right thing, you know you want to.
 
Yeah. Tbh I was always going to contact the courier tomorrow. A small part of me hoped that ocuk would change my mind but the good people of ocuk have refinforced my conviction that I should do the right thing.

I'll update on progress if I find the proper owner or whether it went back to the sender.
 
I can't comment on what other couriers do, but if someone calls us because their parcel has gone missing or been misrouted somehow, we look for it.
Almost everything is traceable backwards through the network and it's a simple process of elimination 99% of the time.

If that was a TNT parcel and the sender/receiver called me querying what had happened, I'd have traced it to your address within the hour of beginning investigation.

It's your choice how you proceed, but to be honest I'm stunned that anyone would do anything other than make a reasonable effort to reunite the parcel with it's correct owner. It's very obviously been delivered to you by mistake and you know it isn't yours.

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Good call mate.
 
Rainmaker said:
Reminds me of this debacle from a while back. As above, was it sent by a tracked delivery method? If so inform the sender or at least enquire with the courier. :)
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Bloody hell fire! Did you have to link me to that? I just spent 2 hours gripped with that thriller of a thread that I should have spent sleeping! :p

Also I can't post in it, how come no one suggested that maybe JUST maybe at the time a Google search for details about parcels and unsolicited mail could have brought up that OCUK thread? (Although I realise it was Basamic that was the snitch in the end).

I have posted question on this forum before, then carried on googling for a solution only for my own flaming topic to show up within minutes!!
 
Seeing as you are as local as you are who's name was on the package?

Just in case it's a name I recognise. Doubt it will be going off what you have said so far though.
 
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BenjiSayers said:
Seeing as you are as local as you are who's name was on the package?

Just in case it's a name I recognise. Doubt it will be going off what you have said so far though.
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I'd rather wiat until after I contacted the courier tomorrow. No disrespect but I have listed what the package was, when it was sent and where from and everybody knows the rough area for delivery. It wouldn;t be that hard for somebody local to try and claim the package if I let the delivery name out to the public domain. Hope you understand.
 
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leaskovski said:
Have you thought to watch what ever videos are on said camera???
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And what would that gain for me? Let's say I did and the previous owner was stupid enought not to have deleted them. Apart from seeing what the previous owner's gf was like............hold on...........back in a few minutes :D
 
Lopéz said:
I can't comment on what other couriers do, but if someone calls us because their parcel has gone missing or been misrouted somehow, we look for it.
Almost everything is traceable backwards through the network and it's a simple process of elimination 99% of the time.

If that was a TNT parcel and the sender/receiver called me querying what had happened, I'd have traced it to your address within the hour of beginning investigation.

It's your choice how you proceed, but to be honest I'm stunned that anyone would do anything other than make a reasonable effort to reunite the parcel with it's correct owner. It's very obviously been delivered to you by mistake and you know it isn't yours.

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Good call mate.
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A bit of advice please. Will the courier company tell me the sender or will they jsut come and collect it to return it?
 
Greebo said:
I'd rather wiat until after I contacted the courier tomorrow. No disrespect but I have listed what the package was, when it was sent and where from and everybody knows the rough area for delivery. It wouldn;t be that hard for somebody local to try and claim the package if I let the delivery name out to the public domain. Hope you understand.
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Aye that's understandable. 99% chance I wouldn't have a clue anyway, just pure noseyness. :)
 
Rainmaker said:
Reminds me of this debacle from a while back. As above, was it sent by a tracked delivery method? If so inform the sender or at least enquire with the courier. :)
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Just spend a good chunk of time reading that thread.. It was a great read and definitely some insight for the OP into what should be done in this situation.
 
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