then you gain the extra potential illegal action due to forgery. so its a game of risk management for the drivers.
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dan@upvote.au 4 months agoEven if there was a signature required, the driver could just forge it.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
ThisIsFineDotJpeg@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
[deleted]Wilco@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Cops and city government are more interested in giving people tickets than they are of solving crime. Implement a new theft enforcement team that takes complaints online with porch video attachments and goes after porch pirates? No … they dont have the resources.
Put in more traffic cameras to catch speeders and red light runners? Oh yeah, get those criminals.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 months ago
I’m sorry, but that’s a dumb argument. The presence of a signature doesn’t imply you accepted a shipment. Even if you know my name, you have no idea how I sign it. It’s trivial to prove a forged signature doesn’t match the one on my license, credit card, lease, etc…
dan@upvote.au 4 months ago
Plenty of companies don’t actually check signatures these days.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 months ago
What does this even mean? Who would “check”, and why? It makes no sense. If someone says I signed for a delivery or agreed to a contract, I guess they’d confirm the existence of a signature before filing it away, if that’s what you mean… But again, if it wasn’t me, I could easily prove that signature doesn’t match my past signatures and dispute it with my bank or in court. To reiterate: a random delivery person won’t know what my signature looks like.
dan@upvote.au 4 months ago
When you sign for something, they’re supposed to verify your signature against the signature on your ID, credit/debit card, etc. Companies have gotten lazy about this, though. For example, the last time a store asked to see the signature on the back of my credit card was maybe 10 years ago?
mp3@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Some services now send a one-time code to the customers that they have to give to the delivery guy to confirm the item as received instead of a signature.
ThisIsFineDotJpeg@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
See if you have a microcenter near you. Not sure about delivery though, but I love that place.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 months ago
wait, there are microcenters? when did they expand? i only have to drive 3 hours instead of 12 to get to one now and i was just by there last week what am i doing with my life
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I have used B&H for stuff whenever possible for the past few years. Less selection of general tech, but I have been flawlessly happy with the service, returns, shipping, etc.