Video: USPS Removes Package from Mailbox, Charges Fee to Get it Back

Amazon has yet to respond to our questions about its delivery methods, and what it’ll do to prevent this from happening again

Amazon will sometimes use special carriers to drop off packages to customers and sometimes they’ll put those packages in your mailbox, but a local post office says that’s not allowed.

And if it happens, they’ll take it.

Linda McSweeney spent weeks hoping to find the perfect gift for her daughter’s 13th birthday.

“I was pretty excited about it,” she said.

Like many teenage girls, her daughter has a new-found passion for nail care. When mom found a kit online, she knew it’d be a big hit.

“It wasn’t available in stores, so I had been looking for a while and the ratings were good,” McSweeney said. “So I purchased it from Amazon.”

Just in time for the big day, McSweeney says she received an email indicating the package had been delivered. When she checked her mailbox, though, it was empty.

“I really thought it was a theft to be honest with you,” she said.

Someone had taken the package, but it wasn’t anyone McSweeney would have suspected. A note left on her doorstep revealed the package was confiscated by the U.S. Postal Service. Read more

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