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Package Wars - UPS Vs.FedEx
January 15, 2013 posted by Steve Brownstein
A UPS employee is facing theft charges in Houston, Texas, after allegedly stealing an Apple iPad Mini that a Fedex delivery person had left at a homeowner’s doorstep.
Al Alverson said he was expecting two packages, one from Fedex and one from UPS.
The one from Fedex was an iPad Mini, a Christmas gift for his daughter.
When he didn’t find the Apple tablet, he said he contacted Fedex, which assured him it had been delivered at 9:29 a.m.
Alverson said he checked video from a surveillance camera mounted above his front door and, sure enough, it showed a Fedex employee delivering the iPad. Alverson said he continued looking at the video and saw that a UPS employee had delivered another package at 1:15 p.m.
The video showed that as the UPS employee rang the doorbell, he looked at the other packages on the porch and walked away.
Two minutes later, the video showed the man dress brown UPS attire returning, picking up the box with the Apple tablet, inspecting the label, placing it under a handheld shipping keypad device and walking off.
