General Chat

We frequently swap post and parcels with a neighbour. Our address ends with Road and theirs is Terrace. Stupid council named 4 new houses just inside our Road with the first part of the name identical. Fortunately for us we have known each other for years so no problems. :-D

I was a few years ago getting insurance/legal letters for an unknown at my address, wrote "not known here" on the envelope returned it to postie, wrote on "return to sender" etc....... yep a few days later in came back to us......went on for over a year,


got it sorted in the end. I wont say how............little bit of lateral thinking.......

Bob

Glad to hear that your panic is over wisechild. Did your friend remember to choose a machine compatible with the Spanish Electricity voltage!!!

Ann- Might the other people have moved??? It could be fun one of these days to pop round and introduce yourselves. Who knows? Perhaps they've been having some of your deliveries!! :-D

Actually we had a spate of NHS letters through the post. Totally incorrect address - from memory it was a place about 100 miles from here! As who ever addressed it put on our post code, I blame our postman for not realising something was amiss.

It worried me for a while, wondering if the addressee had missed a vital hospital appointment. :-0

A lot of addresses on stuff ordered over the internet are generated from the postcode. Mistype a single character and it could be the wrong end of the country. Its amazing how careless some people are. Also I've seen correct road but wrong number. As an example postman had an item for 22 in our road, but only goes to 16. Should have been 11, more careless typing.

Andy

Lol. What a lot of concern she could have avoided.

There was actually a scam in uk with parcel delivery where you'd get notification that they had tried to deliver a parcel when you were out and to collect from depot. Your house would then be burgles while you were out collecting it I think.

Talking of DPD we had them try to deliver a large heavy parcel on Wednesday, totally correct address, unknown name. I tolde delivery man that nobody of that name lived here and signed his contraption to that effect and he took the parcel away. when we got in yesterday having been out all day there was a red card from DPD saying they had tried to deliver a parcel and also tried the neighbour and, the name was the same as the unknown one yesterday. OH spent ages on phone and on line trying to convince them it was not for this address.
Answer was what is your address? remember, we had already given them that when telling them it was not for us. Then said they couldn't return it to sender only head office could do that, then said, if you refuse it they could send it back. Pointed out that we had actually already refused it. Goodness knows who this person is who has ordered something and how did they get our address, including post code when we had not ordered anything?

And it is not the other road in Gloucester with same name, different post code as we get things for them and it is a different name. :-S :-S

Parcel arrived today!!!!
10 minutes spent arguing in pigeon Spanish with the delivery man that I hadn´t ordered anything & wasn´t expecting anything.
Turns out after minute examination that a friend in England had sent me a breadmaker (no idea why she thought I wanted/needed one)
Don´t understand why she didn´t say she had sent me a parcel out of the blue.
Anyway, panic over thank goodness.

I don't know if all mail sites are the same, but on ours (BT) if you point the cursor at the sender's name in your Inbox, it shows the full email address.

It's surprising how many of the suspicious ones end in /es!

I buy lots from Amazon, I only ever get emails from them (or those who sell through them) when I have placed an order in this order
1: to tell me order has been accepted by Amazon
2: to tell me order has been accepted by 3rd party
3: to let me know that order has been dispatched and due delivery date.

Never get any others from them.

As soon as I saw you mention DPD alarm bells rang

SCAM - do not reply or open

JUST DELETE

We regularly get them from Amazon. If neither of us has ordered anything in the last 24 hours, they get deleted.

As has been said already - NEVER click on links in anything suspicious.

Defo a scam, don't click any further, just delete it. l often get one from Curry's(sometimes 4 days in a row) saying "we are waiting for you to contact us about your order" or something similar....they come through my spam box, l delete them.

jude

Do nowt!
DPD mails I have had either give the tracking number in the email or a delivery date and often in the UK a 1 hour delivery slot.

See what comes, if anything. Be aware that some scammers have parcels sent to an address from the supplier then contact you to say it was delivered by mistake they will be along to collect it. Then it's down to you that you signed for delivery.

I would tell the delivery man you are not expecting it and take contact details for his company. Open the package with luck it's from somebody you know and a nice suprise, if not contact the delivery company and arrange for collection directly with them.

Shirley.
My first thought was scam too, which is why I´m wary.
The only link to click on on the e mail is "track order"
Can´t see any order number, nor is there any request for money.
If it´s genuine, all I can think is that someone who has all my details has ordered something for me, but I´m not expecting any gifts in the forseeable future. It´s not my birthday or anniversary & Christmas is a long way off.

Really puzzled now. :-S :-S :-S

The dpd.co.uk part is a legitimate service, and could be genuine but as someone points out on MSE, where it is mentioned.

"Does it give a tracking number in the email?

If so you could type the DPD website address into your browser (**not click on the link) and key in the tracking number to see if it's a genuine number"

note the ** "not click on the link".

SCAM SCAM SCAM leaps out for me lol

Can only wait & see I suppose, as it´s Sunday.
The e mail was headed [email protected].
Seems a bit odd as I don´t even live in the UK, much less order goods from there, but as I said, I never shop on line.
The only organisations who eve have my debit card account details are Family History sites such as Genes & Ancestry, both of which were renewed several months ago.

DON'T click on any link in the email.

Possibly.

Check here for details of the type of scam

http://www.transglobalexpress.co.uk/fraud/

I have had loads like that, usually in my junk folder.....never seen one that's gives my address though

Just recieved an e mail from the above company to say that my order has been despatched.
Correct e mail addy, correct home address.
I haven´t ordered anything. I never shop or do banking on line.
I do have ann account withAmazon which I use to download free books to my tablet, but have never ordered anything from them & they don´t have my debit card details. Haven´t been on the site for over a month anyway.
Should I be worried in case this is a scam???