dphoenix,
Anybody can make up a phone number, a fake address, a bogus recipient...
No going around in circles...I'm just being very clear.
Anybody can do that.
Also, my reference was that the USPS was going to do something that others like UPS has been doing for many many years...long before Sept 2001...
please re-read my initial comments.
I also said in a prior response directly to you the following in agreement that one can make up a fake number and telling you that such does happen...
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28401&perpage=1&pagenumber=8
Are you reading my replies to you?
However, once someone does provide fake info...the odds of that package being delivered drops dramatically and such types of non-deliverable packages I handle myself and allowed for further inspection...
Most common reason for a fake number in my experience was that someone was in a in a rush or because they felt it was private info.
I would be given a phone number like...
(111) 111-1111
I would just smile at the sender and tell them what can happen if the delivery address isn't correct, receiver not home or driver error in attempting to deliver it to the wrong address.
The package gets put aside...inspected later to see if there's contact info on the inside that's different from the info on the outside.
Lets put it this way...if your shipping something important and needs to be delivered and you paid for such...
That's not the time to be playing cat and mouse games with the people that has your package and you no longer have that package
And there are folks that do such and the main reason why their packages end up in that warehouse.
Once again...no going around in circles...anybody can make up any bogus delivery info and there's nothing to prevent such from happening.
Lets put it this way...if I ever decide to give fake delivery info...I better have complete confidence the person that's delivering that package is not a newbie driver and can manage to deliver the package anyways without inspecting it or confidence that someone isn't behind schedule that day and decides to bring it back to their center as non-deliverable when in fact they never attempted a delivery...
You'll be surprise how often the latter happens.
Once again...if someone wants to fake delivery info...there's nothing to stop them.
It just gives drivers another reason to send that package somewhere else for closer inspection.
Something else...things are becoming more high tech from what I hear from my friends that still deliver for the USPS and UPS...
If a package doesn't get delivered for whatever reason but has a phone number...regardless if its a bogus number or not...
They simply look up the phone number on the package and redirect the package for delivery that correlates that phone number to an address...
If the phone number doesn't correlate to anything...
it gets sent to that warehouse I mentioned earlier in this thread or returned to sender.
Note: The sender is contacted to see if they are willing to pay for it being sent back to them...
if not...if its documents...its destroyed...
if its material...it will be open, inspected then sent to that infamous warehouse.
There's been some well-documented cases at USPS and UPS about catching shipping of illegal items this way.
Last known case I heard about was uncovering a child pornography ring...
A guy gave a bogus phone number and the package was accidentally delivered to the wrong address (USPS fault)...
Like I said...if its important and your willing to pay for it to be shipped...
Regardless if your shipping something legal or not...
Your best option is to provide current contact info to prevent any problems.
If providing fake info is a need...best to hand deliver the item yourself to protect whatever it is your trying to protect.
NihabaAshi
