I applied for a some assignments that require materials to be shipped out. The assignments pay $33 total for 3 shops but they are all quite close to where I am staying.
Well, the company that shipped me the materials shipped out 3 separate packets and they were heading to my Post Office Box and I'd need to sign for them. Why 3 packages? Dunno. Maybe just policy or something.
My address is my post office box, my profile with this company is my PO box, my 1099/I9 with them is the PO Box... and yet, somehow they FedEx home delivery shipped these and I got an alert that no one was home when they attempted delivery.
HOME delivery to where???? I don't live at the post office...
Well... apparently a rental unit I own that has not been occupied for an entire year....
How did they get that address? Did the Post Master give it to them? Did the driver just start asking around town? Did they Google search my name? This address is not associated with anything of mine other than my electricity bill because I do have power to the unit right now but it isn't even up for rent right now. It's sitting as a storage building for supplies and materials -- lumber, concrete blocks, yada yada.
I dunno how they got this address to the renal but the company I was contracted through is refusing to help. They are telling me I will either need to drive 2 hours to the depot to pick up the packets that FedEx is now holding, pay $14 per package to have redirected to me, or I could try calling Fedex and asking for one more delivery scheduled and go to my rental to pick it up -- still an hour out of the way.
No where was I ever asked for a physical address and someone had to create a label for these so surely they would have had time to call, email, or alert me that they needed a physical home address. I've been layin' on my sweetest voice and nicest emails and phone calls but I'm very frustrated this morning. There are months I do $200-$300 worth of work for this one client, so what gives -_-
The delivery attempts happened the day before Thanksgiving, the day of, and the day after. I was in West Virginia with my family, and even still, this is a rental unit that is not associated with anything and especially not mystery shopping. Is this the companies fault? Is this Fedex's issue? I don't feel at fault here :/ How was I to know they would pull a random address out of the hat and try to delivery there?
BLAHHHHHHH Any advice?
I still don't think this is my fault. I was anticipating going to my Post Office and signing with the Post Master for the packages. The Fedex I called even has the PO as the address and says they will attempt to contact the driver and see what is up.
I'm wondering how they magically got the rental address.... -_-
I'm also wondering why someone sent Fedex Home Delivery signature ID required to a post office box....
I wonder if I'll be let go if I just let these all go back return to sender -_-