Pile of packages litters front yard of Tennessee home

WRAL ^ | Dec. 3, 2021 | CNN

[bgill]

We all know Amazon doesn't really resell returned items. It's somehow cheaper to send the returns to somewhere that will slash and destroy the items and toss them in a dumpster. Such a shame when it could be donated or actually resold at a discount.

[bgill]

[Captain Walker]

This is the part where we learn that the homeowner has been dead for weeks.

I suspect that there is mail piling up in behind the front door as well.

[Dilbert San Diego]

In some cases empty boxes are delivevred?

Certainly there’s got to be a way to see who ordered merchandise or empty boxes to be delivered to that house.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Where is a porch pirate when you need one!

[Ken H]

Nothing a few porch pirates couldn’t handle.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Some FedEx packages have been found dumped in different places in Alabama.

[mylife]

why are they opening the mail?

[mylife]

call fedex, call the cops.

jeeze

[Governor Dinwiddie]

If it were Memphis, that yard would have been cleaned up in no time at all.

[JennysCool]

Everyone break Free Republic tradition and read the entire story. It’s REALLY screwy! :)

[frank ballenger]

RE: homeowner dead?

In the old days when landline phones stayed on when picked up instead of quickly beeping and shutting off if you take too much time dialing there was a classic Gahan Wilson cartoon:

Two telephone company repairmen are standing inside the entrance to a house.
“There’s the problem right there. Phone’s off the hook.”

(Man has hanged himself from the ceiling and is dead with the phone cord wrapped around his neck.)

[mylife]

[frank ballenger]

Like old fire house wagon horses in the early 1900s who got excited when they scented smoke in the air, all the retired police and Homeland Security dogs stop when they go by and sniff the boxes.

[metmom]

Porch pirates booty?

[PeterPrinciple]

Whis is so much basic information missing. Click bait.

[SlipperySlope99]

Dumb question, but have the police done a welfare check on the occupants?

[Ellendra]

I’ve heard stories of this happening when a delivery person decides they don’t feel like making multiple stops, so they just pick a stop and unload all the packages there. The article mentions that someone else’s packages were found in the pile, so there may be more.

But the article also mentions the homeowner’s friend using their address as an alternate location for warehouse deliveries. That, frankly, seems idiotic.

[skr]

For those who don’t have time to read the article and deal with the pop-ups:

‘The people who live in the house did not want to be on camera but said they have a friend who has a contract with an Amazon warehouse in China.

They say, whenever that friend’s contract expires, she will send the packages to their house for the family to sort and then send back to Amazon for the company to sell.’

[Presbyterian Reporter]

This is just a reminder that there are a lot of folks who should be committed to mental institutions.

I watched the video and the Amazon Prime delivery guy carries on like it is no big deal to drop off a half dozen packages to the stack already in the front yard.