Not necessarily.
Packages containing drugs can be sent to residential addresses on the expectation that it will be delivered during the daytime and left on the front door step if the owner is not home. Which home to send the package to? Follow the delivery truck and observe where packages are left on door steps. After some days of observation, you’ll have an idea of what addresses are suitable to discreetly pickup a package left on the doorstep of an absent homeowner.
With on-line delivery tracking available for packages and realtime updates on deliveries, you can know when the package is delivered as soon as the driver logs the information into the system. As soon as the package is reported as delivered in the tracking system, the drug dealer can drive to the address, collect the package, and be gone. I’m just surprised the drug dealer contacted the home owner. Now there is a face to be connected with the delivery. Maybe he was operating outside his home territory/range and didn’t care. Still, there has to be some expectation that not 100% will come through.
Here is a link to an incident about 5 years ago where the package got picked up and taken inside before the drug dealer could retreive it:
(Pretty cheeky sending the package to the Mayor’s house. There are additional links in sidebars to the story, including the SWAT raid that resulted in shooting the Mayor’s two Labs.)
The lawsuit claims "FedEx disclosed the address "despite explicit Police advisory against such disclosures" and violated Massachusetts privacy laws."
Lawyers make all sorts of claims on behalf of clients, but if it all went down as you suggest, I'd expect this lawsuit to be dismissed rather quickly.
Fascinating story, though. Wish we knew more.
One thing is certain, however: That lady needs to get out of Dodge. Drug dealers aren't known for their sense of what's fair or not fair, nor for their patience and willingness to listen to fine legal distinctions!