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Woman Sues FedEx After Receiving Shocking Delivery That She Claims Put Her Family in Danger

Mar. 1, 2013 9:30pm

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman has sued FedEx, claiming the company mistakenly sent her a package containing seven pounds of marijuana, then gave her address to the intended recipients, who later showed up at her door.

Maryangela Tobin of Plymouth said in the suit filed Feb. 12 that by disclosing her address, the company violated state privacy laws and put herself and her children in danger.

“I feel like the safety of my daughters and myself was invaded and it makes things complicated,” she told WBZ-TV. “I walk into my house first every time, my kids don’t.”

Tobin said she thought the package was a birthday present for her daughter, because when she opened it, she found candles, pixie sticks and peppermint. There was also something she thought was potpourri, but it was marijuana.

Tobin said that about an hour later, a man knocked on her door looking for the package, while two men sat in a vehicle in her driveway, waiting. She said she didn’t have it, and bolted and slammed the door. Tobin claims FedEx gave out her address, which led the men to her home.

Police made an arrest, but Tobin said now she’s worried about retribution.

Memphis, Tenn.-based FedEx said it doesn’t comment on pending lawsuits.

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  • Spider_Web
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:32pm

    Continue…
    I agree with Kalshion,

    “For all YOU know, the address put on the package was intentionally done by those who came to that girls house. It’s a pretty well-known tactic amongst criminals to buy stuff that is illegal and have it shipped to another person’s house.

    What this means is that FedEx probably never even released the address to the home, they didn’t NEED to, the criminals already KNEW the package was going to be delivered there.”

    For you who don’t understand, if the FEDEX had detected it was drugs, the cops would have been there for the receiver of the drugs, and they would not have been involved.

    So, Maryangela Tobin of Plymouth, the next time you get a package, don’t “assume” it is for you!!

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    • betterpart
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 3:27pm

      You have an active imagination.

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    • bobfrommosinee
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 8:59pm

      BP, You are wrong, It is done al the time. Yes, Fed X occasionally delivers the wrong package to the wrong address, But the Address is correct, If as is indicated the address was this Women’s, Someone was doing a cut out, If the Police followed the package to the delivery, They criminal would be safe, If the Police didn’t show up they would then know it was safe to retrieve the drugs from the woman.

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    • bolec slodkie
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 9:31am

      This is an old scam. The idiots thought no one would be home.

      http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=37777

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    • zorro
      Posted on March 4, 2013 at 10:11am

      If Fed-Ex gave anyone her address, they deserve to get sued. I’d be pretty angry also.

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  • Spider_Web
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:30pm

    Fifty years ago, when I went to work at an industrial plant, I had a foreman who had a saying. He would tell of how he lost his last job and cost his industry a huge amount of money. As an electrician he assumed the power was ‘OFF’ at the substation where he was working and foolishly tested it with his screwdriver to ground. The ‘ground fault’ took the whole plant down.

    He then developed a policy he went by, “From the Womb to the Tomb, Don’t Assume”.

    There is assumption both by Maryangela Tobin of Plymouth, and the comments on this article. She said FEDEX “mistakenly sent her a package”, If it was a mistake then it means her name or her address was not on the package. She assumed it was for her, then for her daughter because of what was in the package. If she had never assumed and verified the address then she would have never opened it.

    Some are assuming the FEDEX is so perfect they can never deliver a package to the wrong address, which is common with the government supported USPS.

    One of you assumes she knew the “potpourri” was “marijuana” and had “rat poison” handy and willing to murder an unknown person! She probably did not know what it was till the cops showed up.

    Some of you assume she knows what she is saying about the FEDEX giving her address to the criminals (What her lawsuit is about) instead of retrieving the package their self and re-delivering to the proper address…… I assume she assumes the FEDEX gave out he

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    • termyt
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:07pm

      It’s a pretty safe assumption Fed Ex is in the clear, actually.

      If the package was addressed to the woman’s house, then they delivered it as directed. I doubt the delivery address written on the package is considered private information if someone knowing details of the shipment asked about it.

      If the address on the package was not the women’s address, than Fed Ex would not know it. Fed Ex only knows the item was delivered. If someone told them they didn’t receive it, how would they know where it had been mistakenly delivered to?

      Either way, the only way you could prove malfeasance on the part of Fed Ex is if you could prove they knew what the contents of the package were and were part of the conspiracy to deliver it falsely to the woman’s house.

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  • bestcat1
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 12:14pm

    I’ve heard of this before. Criminals have things (drugs, whatever) and have them sent by FedEx to someone else’s home and wait for the package to arrive. Usually they’ve staked out a home where they know the homeowner will not be home when the package arrives. That way they get their illegal package and the homeowner knows nothing about it. It gives them a safe place to have their illegal substances delivered with little fear of being caught. Thus, I’m not so sure that FedEx gave out her address or did anything wrong.

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  • love the kids
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:48am

    I look at these comments and i am shocked of what I see. If you are normal, law abiding citizens, who have bought more than 50 things on ebay,you wouldn’t really think twice about what happened. We have received multiple things that we have ordered without even knowing who sent it when we got it. Then, what goes through your mind after you opened it by mistake, (And PS, it’s not through the US postal service, so it’s not illegal to open if unsure). I would think of all the things that I just thought of in 2 minutes. If I call the police, first they won’t believe me and will think one of my kids ordered it, so we will be investigated. Then, someone will show up at my house tonight in a home invasion looking for the delivery, and of course, because the Govt. is disarming me, I have no protection. And even after all of that, the cops won’t even investigate the source of the package. I’m sure the mother has been waiting all her life for 7 pounds of pot, to unexpectedly show up at her house so she could “score”. Some of you people are crazy.

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    • desertspeaks
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:39am

      I see people talking about all this marijuana being shipped all over the country and arriving at the wrong address, where is my mistaken shipment :P lol

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  • LameLiberals
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:13am

    Unanswered Questions

    1. Did package have her EXACT address on it? If so Fed Ex delivered to correct address even package was not her name. Fed Ex delivers to address on package – not name. Whoever mailed the box – made mistake.

    2. If package had HER ADDRESS but …NOT… her name or her daughter’s name on it, why did she open it thinking it was a birthday present for her daughter? She should have called Fed Ex to come pick it up.

    3. She ‘Claims” Fed Ex dropped package off & she opened it SEEING THE MARIJUANA and an hour later – strange men show up to pick it up. DID SHE CALL THE POLICE IN THAT HOUR TO TELL THEM OF THE MARIJUANA? DID SHE CALL FED EX ABOUT THE MARIJUANA? NO- because the police would have picked it up.

    4. She ASSUMES Fex Ex gave the men her address. However the men at her door could simply have called the person who mailed the package and asked him what address he mailed it too and he gave them her address. Possibly her house address was in the past a drop off house. Or the guy wrote the address he was told to mail package to down wrong and when they called him he repeated HER address (wrong address turned out) and the men went there to pick up the package.

    There is SOMETHING WRONG in woman’s behavior for NOT CALLING THE POLICE AND/OR FED EX THE MOMENT SHE OPENED THE MARIJUANA BOX!!! If she were truly afraid for her family she would have wanted the police/Fed Ex to REMOVE IT FROM HER HOME/FAMILY. I think she me

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    • LameLiberals
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:19am

      I think she meant to KEEP THE BOX. (cut off section above

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    • dfissell
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:53am

      Wake up 1. you never have drugs shipped to you 2. tracking numbers work great 3.all way look at name and address before you open and who the sender is 4. If it was not address to her she should be in jail for theft 5. get a local address, have drug dealer ship to said address, use tracking to tell when its out for delivery ,hope you get it before the person that lives there does , if not lie to get it back ,if its is discovered in route owner of address will take the fall not you

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    • LameLiberals
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:13am

      dfissell
      YOU WAKE UP>

      BOTTOM LINE; The woman did NOT call the police when she received several pounds of marijuana which means she wasn’t too concerned about her family’s safety when she WANTED to keep the box. If she can’t get free money selling marijuana that wasn’t hers because the bad guys took it, she can now get free money suing Fed Ex.

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    • dfissell
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:26am

      No crap she meant to keep the box hence, SHE should be in jail for theft stop being a derp

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    • LameLiberals
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:43am

      dfissell
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:26am

      No crap she meant to keep the box hence, SHE should be in jail for theft stop being a derp
      ______________
      IF you READ my original comment – I said I think she MEANT to keep the box. Why are you arguing with someone who agrees with you.

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    • smokeysmoke
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:50am

      the women has a case… people mail weed to the wrong address all the time, with the intention of picking it up at the door when left… the cops find and sieze some of these packages, and deliever them and arrest the person who signs for the package…

      the women was unaware of what was in the package, and she coudl have been arrested for signing for it… she has a case, that she could have been set up in a sting operation, signed for a package, and become a felon before she knew what was in the package… there is a case here

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    • rickg62
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 2:40am

      Smokey…Put down the bong for a minute. She has no case. She didn’t sign for the package. The only time a signature is required is if the shipper requests it. In this case I’m sure that didn’t happen. There is no way that FedEx gave out her address. As has been said elsewhere, that’s not how FedEx operates. As a former driver, if a package is miss-delivered, that is to the wrong house, the only way FedEx knows this is if the recipient calls and lets them know or if the rightful recipient calls and has been tracking the package and sees that it was delivered, but it is not at his house. In that case the driver who had the package is informed an will investigate and either pick -up the package and correctly deliver it or return it to the terminal for re-delivery. Everything is handled in-house and no information is given out over the phone. If a driver made a mistake, he has been on his route long enough that he knows every stop he made the previous few days and can tell you where a package was delivered and where at the house it was left. Up to when I had to retire for medical reasons a year ago a delivery confirmation sticker was also used showing that the delivery was made and where the package was left, i.e. front door, back door, etc. This was in case it needed to be someplace more secure in case of weather, security, etc. We had a case of pot being shipped with socks but it was caught before delivery because of a faulty address.

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  • mtnvortex
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 7:07am

    It sounds to me like she opened a package that was not even addressed to her. And potpourri?…yeah, okay. 7 pounds of potpourri. She’s full of crap, and was going to keep it. And any retribution that occurs, she brought on herself by opening something that wasn’t hers.

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 7:38am

      Mail is delivered to addresses not people. You do not need a name on a package for it to be delivered. In fact, it would pretty stupid to put a name on a box of drugs. Not that drug dealers are scholars but, they know how to work the system enough to know NOT to put a name on their “goods”.

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    • starman70
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 8:09am

      Fed-Ex delivers packages to addresses. They don’t ask the name of the receipient. After opening the package, she simply should have called the police.

      If in fact Fed-Ex did give the address of where the package was delivered, they are totally in the wrong. They should have had a supervisor contact the receiptant in person, explain that the package was mis delivered, give her a receipt for the package and taken it back tom their distribution hub. By no means should they have given out the address of where they actually delivered it.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 8:38am

      Yea, and I live on a street that has a branching street that is spelled slightly differently and get mail from the other street all the time.

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    • Advection
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:09am

      If you receive a package addressed to someone else, leave it outside and call the delivery service to come get it. Problem solved.

      She will win the lawsuit, though. Somebody at FedEx screwed up on this one.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:13am

      FedEx, UPS, USPS, all deliver to addresses. Unless a signature is required, no names need be involved.

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    • termyt
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:22am

      Fed-Ex is not criminally liable for incorrectly delivered packages. If it was delivered to the wrong address, though, how would Fed Ex know that address to give it to anyone? The only address they know is the one on the package, which they presumably believe they delivered the package to.

      Far more likely, the dealers had the package delivered there and intended to pick it up after it was delivered.

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    • canadianlady
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:35pm

      Synthetic marijuana or “K2″ is made to look like potpourri. Despite the growing number of marijuana users among the general populace, the vast majority of people are NOT users. Most at-home Moms wouldn’t recognize K2 if they fell over it. All you naysayers out there who believe this woman wanted to keep the pot for herself, are only telling us what you’d do, yourselves.

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  • Protech64
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:49am

    Her address must have been on the package or it wouldn’t have been delivered to her and they wouldn’t have her address attached to the tracking number.

    She must have seen her name and address on the package, or she wouldn’t have opened it.

    My question is : did she immediately call the Police or only after someone came looking for the package ?

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 7:17am

      “Her address must have been on the package or it wouldn’t have been delivered to her”

      Baloney.
      You’ve never gotten someone else’s mail by mistake?

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    • BSdetector
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 7:49am

      I get mail with other peoples’ names and addresses pretty consistently. Maybe your post office isn’t manned by the same lazy, parasitic government workers mine is, but that doesn’t mean they never make mistakes at your post office either.

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    • Inlightofthings
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 8:17am

      Have any of you ever filled out a Fedex shipper label? Your first mistake is thinking it’s like snail mail. You don’t pay $30.00 +/- for priority overnight for nothing. Every Fedex Bill I’ve ever filled out requires the recipients name, address and phone number. Same for the shipper. This is true for boxes and letters. I could be wrong…

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    • Thinman
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:01am

      You don’t ship or receive much, do you?

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    • Orion the truth hunter
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 3:59pm

      @ eastinfection “Her address must have been on the package or it wouldn’t have been delivered to her”
      Baloney.You’ve never gotten someone else’s mail by mistake?

      Of course we have received mis-delivered mail, but WHO do you think writes down the WRONG address when they are dropping it off? Do you really think that the delivery person decides to knowingly drop off a package at the wrong address but writes down that wrong address so his boss can tell the shipper where to go looking for it? The FedEx shipper has a copy of the shipment label and a tracking number. THEY are the FedEx customer and have ever right to see if/when the delivery is made. In this case, the crooks shipped it to her house and went to retrieve it.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on March 3, 2013 at 7:11am

      ORION THE TRUTH HUNTER….

      Thanks for putting a whole bunch of words in my mouth.
      Great deductive reasoning there, Columbo, but i was simply stating that packages don’t always go to their intended recipient…. for a variety of reasons.
      I’ve worked for FedEx before. Nobody writes down anything after a parcel is dropped off. It’s simply scanned as being delivered.
      Your theory is likely. but i wasn’t commenting on that. I was just refuting the claim that packages always end up where they’re addressed to. They don’t. I have dropped things at the wrong place before because of mis-reading the address, or the numbers on the house.

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  • powedj
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:16am

    It’s George Bush’s fault !!!

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    • Bullitt2008
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 8:35am

      George Bush? Marijuana bush? Now we’re getting somewhere, POWEDJ! If Obama could change the Constitution to say that everything bad that’s happening is Bush’s fault, we could end all lawsuits.

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  • piper60
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:19am

    I’d have given the perp the box, after sprinkling it with rat poison. Just a thought.

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    • mtnvortex
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 6:40am

      That’s pretty stupid. So you would knowingly murder anybody who ended up buying the pot from them, which could end up being your own friends, loved ones…or maybe their teenage children. Yeah, good idea.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on March 2, 2013 at 12:33am

    There should be some serious head-rolling at FedEx, for giving the criminals this woman’s address. Hope she wins her lawsuit.

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    • Kalshion
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:57am

      And how do you know they gave her address to them? Like I told one other person here who clearly doesn’t get it, the criminals may have already known the package was being delivered to that house because thats’ where the criminals WANTED it to be delivered. It has happened before in the past.

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  • Deepdiver58
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:53pm

    How is it that so many commenters have missed the point of the story: FedEx unlawfully released her address (for the package they delivered) to an unauthorized person. It is not about the content of the package.

    Now, the drug dealer goes to her house to get his package. Do you see the problem here? If not, ask someone to explain it to you in terms you can understand.

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    • antiprogressive
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 12:52am

      uh,
      if I receive a package and can’t determine where it came from, I ask.
      I have even REdelivered a package MYSELF to the correct address a couple blocks away one time when I figured out it wasn’t meant for ME.

      I gotta ask though, where did the POTpourri go?

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    • Kalshion
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:56am

      Umm, and how do YOU know that? For all YOU know, the address put on the package was intentionally done by those who came to that girls house. It’s a pretty well-known tactic amongst criminals to buy stuff that is illegal and have it shipped to another person’s house.

      What this means is that FedEx probably never even released the address to the home, they didn’t NEED to, the criminals already KNEW the package was going to be delivered there.

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    • Inlightofthings
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 8:27am

      I see where the claims have been made, that the package was delivered to the wrong address and the Fedex gave out the address to the perps. What I don’t see is a comment from Fedex, which clearly states they don’t comment on pending lawsuits. “Pending” is key…it could very well be that the perps had the package mailed to that address intentionally, with the plan to intercept. AP makes the story about what they want the story to be about. Rest assured, this will have multiple updates.

      What I don’t get…7 pounds and NO odor?

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    • lonwarner2
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 8:38am

      I agree with Kalshion! Fed-ex is probably not to blame for the delivery.

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    • LameLiberals
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:20am

      She ASSUMES Fex Ex gave the men her address. However the men at her door could simply have called the person who mailed the package and asked him what address he mailed it too and he gave them her address. Possibly her house address was in the past a drop off house. Or the guy wrote the address he was told to mail package to down wrong and when they called him he repeated HER address (wrong address turned out) and the men went there to pick up the package.

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  • RationalMan
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:39pm

    Maryangela Tobin of Plymouth…..

    You’re a snake in the grass!!!

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  • RationalMan
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:37pm

    Hmmm, something is fishy about this story!

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    • termyt
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:29am

      Yeah. She was so concerned about retaliation that she put her name and face on the evening news.

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    • LameLiberals
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:40am

      She was so concerned for her family’s safety AFTER she opened the box and found pounds of marijuana THAT SHE NEVER CALLED THE POLICE OR FED EX to come and take the box away IN THE HOUR BETWEEN the time she opened the box and when some guy showed up at her door to pick it up. She meant to keep the box.

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  • mikefromaltoona
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:41pm

    The Coen Brothers could do wonders with this story!

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  • Jake Dog2
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:28pm

    I can not see any culpability on FedEx’s part for this.

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    • Heb4Seven
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:51pm

      Let me Explain….3 guys who want their illegal POT + 1 Woman who did not hand it over + “We know what you did and where you live” = FedX’s delivery put this woman and her kids in a nerve wrecking and possibly dangerous position.

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    • KyleD
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:54pm

      If the woman is right and the fedex gave them her address they’re definitely culpable. Sounds more likely that they were using her house to smuggle drugs though – in which case you’re right and fedex did nothing wrong.

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    • USAMama
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:13am

      Yeah I’ve heard of people having stolen property delivered to wrong address and tracking it so they could intercept it without the homeowner ever knowing anything. Probably didn’t have a name on the package. I’ll hold judgement til the facts are known.

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  • Jedrin
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:27pm

    It is a federal crime to open someone elses package. She was trying to steal the contents. If it was her adderss and her name on it then ok. Seven pounds translates into a lot of money. The police can not and will not protect her. Good thing she doesn’t need a gun. Crime is against the law and that will protect her.

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    • Budrow
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:51pm

      “Crime is against the law”?

      LMAO

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    • FreedbyTruth
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:58pm

      It is only a federal crime to open something delivered by the US Mail. This does not extend to FedEx and the like.

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    • Mr. H.
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:24am

      Not from FedEx it’s not. Via USPS yes, but not a private carrier.

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  • Mrs. Bowers
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:19pm

    Omg.

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  • high school drop out
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:18pm

    Now this one puzzles me, I once had FedEx lose,Yes LOSE 3 foot by 4 foot 80 pound box! I mean never to be seen again! And no one at FedEx had any idea where it went! But they knew exactly where this small box was delivered to? like I said I,m puzzled

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  • BlasberryStrat
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:00pm

    “A lady received ‘seven’ poun……uhhhh…..’SIX’ pounds of pot…..”

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  • Kalshion
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:58pm

    Sorry lady, but it’s not FedEx’s fault that you received a package with stuff inside that was illegal. FedEx doesn’t open up and check packages (thankfully) they are purely a delivery service… they have no way of knowing what’s in it or whom they are giving the address to, it is assumed by most that the people asking ‘where’ their package went are safe people.

    Just another sue-happy person..

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    • Verceofreason
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:06pm

      She will have to prove FedEX KNEW what was inside.

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    • tester99
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:20pm

      You are right Fed-Ex doesn’t open packages unless they get damaged during transfer and handling, but our fed ex drive has told us a few stories of cooperation with law enforcement and the period visits to the depot with drug sniffing dogs, I also know a woman who works in ups customer service and law enforcement is often involved in “tracking” shipments.

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    • jman-6
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:23pm

      Some states have strict laws governing the release of private info to anyone without court order. And no just because you can get it other ways doesn’t make it legal. I think FedEx will probably settle to keep the damages to a minimum just my humble opinion!

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    • darthtanner
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:29pm

      It doesn’t matter what was in the package. FedEx should have come back and picked it up to deliver to the correct address.

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 12:56am

      It doesn’t matter if they knew what was in the package or that the people it was intended for were drug dealers. They have no way of knowing which is precisely why they aren’t allowed to give out her address.

      It is illegal for them to disclose her address to unauthorized third parties. Period. If they wanted to remedy the situation they should have contacted her about the errant delivery, went and retrieved the package, and then shipped it to it’s intended recipient. Not just given some random idiot her address so they could go retrieve it themselves.

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    • Kalshion
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 2:00am

      @darthtanner

      Yea, and yet, what if the criminals who came to her door KNEW the package was being delivered? That would mean that FedEx actually never gave out the address, but instead, that her address had been chosen by the criminals as a drop-off point for their illegal goods.

      It’s happened before, thankfully not to my family… yet..

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  • Eleutheria
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:53pm

    The woman is an idiot.

    Here’s what happened.

    1. traffickers chose her home as the point of delivery.

    2. Once they got a tracking number, the traffickers monitored the package to the point of delivery.

    3. Once they received delivery confirmation, the traffickers went to pick up the package at the point of delivery.

    FedEx didn’t give the traffickers her address, but rather the traffickers gave her address to FedEx.

    The brain-dead harpy is barking up the wrong tree.

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    • Kalshion
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:59pm

      That is also a real good posibility, and is done quite a bit.

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    • MDECKER
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:16pm

      I’ll bet you never tried that before!

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    • Inlightofthings
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 8:42am

      That’s my thinking. Happens all the time with purchases from stolen credit cards. I’ve used Fedex a long time and it is no USPS regular mail system. Far too many lines on the form including name, address and contact phone #. She is a victim, but my guess is not of Fedex. I have had multiple shipments with an “extra” package dropped off, in which case Fedex dispatches a truck.

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  • Duh.Idiots
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:46pm

    Here’s where this lawsuit goes no where. FedEx doesn’t know what it’s shipping. I worked for a mail order pharmacy and the FedEx employees (truck drivers/customer service) were unaware they were handling hundreds of thousands of dollars of medication. All the knew was handle with care, temperature controlled, etc. So if these drug dealers intentionally shipped the package and had a tracking number, how is it FedEx’s fault that they tracked the package to the house that the drug dealers sent it to? If by chance, the delivery guy dropped it off at the wrong house, then the shipping label would reflect so and SHE shouldn’t have taken it inside her house and opened it. Their job isn’t to open and inspect every parcel that goes through their facilities… Would she be suing USPS if the dealers used them?

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    • Army Joe
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:01pm

      It says they mistakenly sent her a package. It wasn’t addressed to her by mistake. There is no reason for the intended recipient to get the address it was wrongly shipped to.

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  • The_Almighty_Creestof
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:43pm

    Story needs to be clarified. Was the package addressed to her by FedEx by mistake? Was it addressed to someone else and delivered to her by mistake? It could be that they did not give out her address, but that the guys who knocked on her door intenionally addressed it to her and planned on grabbing it off her doorstep before she got home. It’s hard to believe a person would not notice the wrong name and address on a package before opening it…unless they saw it was wrong and figured “Hey, it’s mine now.”

    I’ve had packages from UPS & FedEx come up missing…and after I see it is shown as “delivered” (yet I don’t have it), neither UPS or FedEx have any clue where they left the package by mistake. Once, I drove around my block in the dark looking for boxes on door steps…and found the video camera I had purchased off of Ebay sitting on the porch of a neighbor 5 doors down…yet UPS had no idea where it was and told me to contact the seller to initiate a claim.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:38pm

    Wow, huge lawsuit on this one. But at least they got it there overnight, and the drug dealers delivered the same day. Now that is service.

    If it was the USPS, they would still be waiting for their package, and their postman would have the munchies.

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    • Jake Dog2
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:23pm

      LOL So True

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    • Gremlin1974
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 12:53am

      Huge Lawsuit that will quietly go away, regardless of the facts. The last thing you will hear from this suit is the check being ripped out of a FedEx check book.

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    • Inlightofthings
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 8:34am

      Have you ever asked yourself, why a perp that would face MULTIPLE federal crimes – possibly including interstate and international violations would send the package to his REAL address? Intercepting contraband properly shipped to a knowingly wrong address is nothing new. The marijuana is only one violation of many the perps face – I believe.

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  • Fubared
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:34pm

    A User’s wet dream. What box? Cough, cough, cough.

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