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RKP5637

(67,111 posts) Sat Jan 19, 2019, 01:14 PM Jan 2019

Does UPS open packages for inspection or something??? Strange event ...

I guess this is a good place to post it. I ordered a heat gun from Amazon. It was shipped UPS. It was just a small device for working on electronic equipment. When it arrived it looked like the end of the mailer had been opened with small scissors, like on a Swiss army knife, lots of small little cuts with small scissors. Nothing was missing. It's delivered to a secure location, so none could have messed with it. It was just weird. It was just a mailer envelope, not a box. ... lucky it had not fallen out. Has anyone had that happen to them? It was just so strange I decided to ask here.

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Does UPS open packages for inspection or something??? Strange event ... (Original Post) RKP5637 Jan 2019 OP

I have had some things delivered and it appears the contents may have torn through the package from dameatball Jan 2019 #1

Yep, I've had that happen a couple of times with books. This was weird with all the little scissor RKP5637 Jan 2019 #7

Heat guns have the shape of a regular hand gun. democratisphere Jan 2019 #2

Yep, I think that's what happened. I was surprised it was not resealed. n/t RKP5637 Jan 2019 #5

Yes they will. Wellstone ruled Jan 2019 #3

Yep, I think maybe that's what happened. It probably looked strange in the scanner and got RKP5637 Jan 2019 #8

I've had a few problems with those shipping bags procon Jan 2019 #4

... maybe it got caught in one of the wheels on the conveyor system. I just never had this happen RKP5637 Jan 2019 #6

All the time DFW Jan 2019 #9

That's what I'm wondering because of the way it was cut open. It looked like someone had RKP5637 Jan 2019 #10

dameatball

(7,399 posts)

1. I have had some things delivered and it appears the contents may have torn through the package from

Reply to RKP5637 (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 01:23 PM

Jan 2019

the inside (such as the corner of a book) but never have had anything that appeared to have been cut open with a scissors. With the volume of items Amazon handles it is just as possible that the damage took place before it ever got to UPS.

In other words, I don't know....

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

7. Yep, I've had that happen a couple of times with books. This was weird with all the little scissor

Reply to dameatball (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 01:49 PM

Jan 2019

cuts on the end.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

2. Heat guns have the shape of a regular hand gun.

Reply to RKP5637 (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 01:32 PM

Jan 2019

It might have been opened for that reason.

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

5. Yep, I think that's what happened. I was surprised it was not resealed. n/t

Reply to democratisphere (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 01:46 PM

Jan 2019

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

3. Yes they will.

Reply to RKP5637 (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 01:37 PM

Jan 2019

If the scanner kicks it out,it will be checked.

And yes,they do have persons who repackage items .

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

8. Yep, I think maybe that's what happened. It probably looked strange in the scanner and got

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 01:51 PM

Jan 2019

kicked out for inspection.

procon

(15,805 posts)

4. I've had a few problems with those shipping bags

Reply to RKP5637 (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 01:44 PM

Jan 2019

I think they might be getting snagged in the conveyor system used to move packages around. Nothing has ever arrived broken or missing parts so the damage to the packaging isn't too worrisome so far.

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

6. ... maybe it got caught in one of the wheels on the conveyor system. I just never had this happen

Reply to procon (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 01:48 PM

Jan 2019

before.

DFW

(54,415 posts)

9. All the time

Reply to RKP5637 (Original post)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 01:53 AM

Jan 2019

UPS and FedEx both, and not just for safety reasons. Organized crime has a unit in the main German office of FedEx, and value shipments and/or shipments both to and from addresses known to handle high value disappear all the time.

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

10. That's what I'm wondering because of the way it was cut open. It looked like someone had

Reply to DFW (Reply #9)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 11:28 AM

Jan 2019

used the small scissors in a Swiss army pocket knife to open it. In a mailer bag only about 12" wide, it had probably about 25 very small scissor cuts. It seems if Amazon had opened it for inspection it would have been one cut and then taped back up. This one had been cut opened and left that way. Really strange ...

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