I accidentally left a black soft-sided case in a cart in the Target lot. It had my 15” MacBook Pro, my cinema camera and and external HD with a lot of my media. Didn’t realize I left it until after I unpacked my purchases about 20 mins after getting home. I rushed back with no hope of ever getting my stuff back but some kind and honest soul saw my bag in the cart, opened it and realized it was probably important to someone and turned it in! Still blows my mind to this day, six years later.
Thats amazing! I used to live in an area where we, thankfully, had the same drivers for fedex and ups, we've actually had the fed ex driver find a package from amazon across town, and he randomly saw our name and address, and drove it all the way over on the weekend to bring it to us, we thought It was stolen / lost. I do my best to make small talk / friendships with them, you never know when it will help. Glad your cam is safe and you made a potential connection out of that experience!
The level of service for private and public postal/delivery systems in the US is shocking. I recently sent a book purchased by a customer in the US, postage paid and the delivery never arrived. The customer believes USPS lost it. What is the point of paying for secure shipment? This would never happen in my country of residence.
I had a new SL2 with 24-70mm lens delivered to a neighbour who lived across from me, by mistake. This neighbour had a history of denying taking in parcels. Fortunately I had an another neighbour who witnessed it. When I went over to get it, I thanked them for taking my parcel in. They go ‘what parcel?’ Fortunately the box was in the hall behind them. So I said ‘that one’. T which point they admitted it and gave it to me.
When the Sony A7R4 was new....Fed Ex delivered my camera to 1302 9th St instead of 1302 10th St. I got lucky the home owner was honest. I ended up receiving a package of his a couple of weeks later.
