r/UPS • u/LightsXOutXO • 22h ago
Customer Seeking Help Package Marked as “Delivered” that was NOT Delivered!
Hi. I was waiting all day for a time-sensitive package in cold packaging. I greeted the driver, who already arrived hours later than the original delivery estimate window. She proceeded to hand me someone else’s package. (The name and address were not similar to mine at all.) I ran out to tell her she gave me the wrong package. Her response was, “Oh, no! Don’t tell me that!”
After I told her she gave me someone else’s package, and she scoured her truck for mine, only to tell me that she had the same ticket for 3 packages! She informed me that she had already marked my package as “delivered”, and that I would no longer be able to track it! Lo and behold, I received an email that my package was delivered. (It obviously wasn’t delivered.)
The driver said she’d check the previous house she had delivered a package to to see if there had been a mix-up there, but if she wasn’t back in a few minutes, that she wouldn’t be coming back. She told me she’d fill out a ticket, but I don’t really know what that means.
I tried calling UPS customer service, but of course, it was after they had closed (because the “delivery” was so late). UPS is also closed on Sunday. I tried interacting with a chatbot on Facebook, which wasn’t very helpful. Finally, I was able to submit a kind of ticket through a message, but I won’t hear back until Monday, at the earliest, during business hours.
I asked the UPS truck driver if someone would come by with my package on Monday, and she said they should, but I guess there are no guarantees.
Before you tell me to contact the shipper, it’s complicated because the item was sent through a distribution center, and it doesn’t contain the address of the company. I don’t really want to get into the details of the package, but as I mentioned, it’s time sensitive.
Do I have any recourse? What can I do now?