What's the legality of receiving and keeping a package for your neighbor?

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February 03, 2018, 03:53 PM

mark123

What's the legality of receiving and keeping a package for your neighbor?

quote:
Originally posted by VBVAGUY:
I am not a lawyer, I also did not play one on TV, however I believe that legally the neighbor does not have to return it and can keep it. However morally I believe it is wrong. God Bless

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/a...nordered-merchandise

Doesn't that just apply to items addressed to you that are unsolicited?

February 03, 2018, 03:58 PM

cooger

In Kentucky this is a form of theft. I would contact the police.

February 03, 2018, 03:58 PM

tatortodd

quote:
Originally posted by mark123:
quote:
Originally posted by VBVAGUY:
I am not a lawyer, I also did not play one on TV, however I believe that legally the neighbor does not have to return it and can keep it. However morally I believe it is wrong. God Bless

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/a...nordered-merchandise
Doesn't that just apply to items addressed to you that are unsolicited?

I believe that just applies to stuff you didn't order and the sender tries to get you to send them money for it.

For example, the NRA used to send DVDs unsolicited and then try to get you to send them $10+. The FTC rule applied and nobody owed them a damn thing. They tried it a couple times on me and I never sent them money and miraculously the unsolicited items quit arriving.

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February 03, 2018, 04:14 PM

Mars_Attacks

Someone at the shipping department at Sig transposed my zip code, got a different address warning and STILL shipped my pistol off to another city.

They act like it as no big deal at all.

February 03, 2018, 04:51 PM

ScreamingCockatoo

UPS and the USPS drops stuff off for the farm next door here all the time.
I just load it up and drive it over to my neighbor.

February 03, 2018, 07:42 PM

maturins_rose

The neighbor sucks. This is why I have packages shipped to my office. 1500 people in the building, but a secured mailroom with signatures required to pick up packages.

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February 03, 2018, 07:59 PM

sigfreund

Good grief!

Unless there are specific statutes to the contrary, if someone deliberately gives YOU something (and that includes deliberately sending it to YOU at your address), then it’s YOURS. They may attach conditions such as surrendering it back if you don’t pay for it, but even that may be unenforceable, and they certainly cannot require you to pay to send it back.
If YOU buy something and it’s misdelivered, or you drop it on the sidewalk and someone finds it, or someone steals it from your mailbox or porch, it’s still YOURS, not the person to whom it was delivered or who found it or who stole it. It’s YOURS.

The police may not do anything because it was misdelivered, but I would still report it as a theft.