My OPSEC was nearly blown thanks to FedEx! My latest order from Emergency Essentials was delivered in error to my neighbor’s house. Only because of pure luck I noticed the box on their front porch. The neighbors’ are renters new to the town and my first thought was that I have a fellow prepper next door. Then it dawned on me that I had a pending delivery on the way. I was fortunate that they were not home and was able to retrieve the package without incident. The lessoned learned, ask for boxes that do not have the advertising on the box.
Sometimes people don't know what a company sells unless they take the time to look it up online. "Emergency Essentials" could be anything from medical supplies to automotive supplies. I mean I am glad you got the box before anyone noticed though.
Not if it is your box to begin with and on their doorstep. I have done that a few times because UPS sometimes delivers around the corner. I sometimes get their boxes and they sometimes get mine. As long as it is not in their mailbox. That would be a problem.
What better way to find out if you can trust your neighbors, than by ordering something mundane/non-descript, Fed-ex to you, then leave on your neighbors Porch to see if they bring it to you.
Ideas, Ideas........
I hope you were wearing your tinfoil hat when you went to retrieve you boxes along with your SAPI plates and had sufficient cover-fire lined up in case they were trying to lure into a shooting gallery.
I don't understand why EE uses those boxes to start with. I have to always ask for plain ones. Seems like they would save money just using plain boxes and not having to pay to have them printed.
My neighbors know my game already. I'm the first person they come to if they need help on a side project, need someone to watch over the house while on vacation or tell me they had to but a restraining order on someone. I agree to extent never show all your cards but living in your basement peeking out the windows throws more red flags then being open in a neighborhood.
Last night (around midnight), I found a box I had been expecting for two weeks on a side porch on my radial arm saw. The one place I never go is this porch. My 50 mylar blankets..
I'd Email EE and tell them I am not ordering anything, ever again, until it comes in an unmarked box, and notify Fed-Ex to start reading the friggin' address label a bit closer. If they leave anything here at the house in town, I file a claim with the company and let them work it out with the freight company. It usually only takes once on a package insured for over $100 to get their attention.
About fifteen years ago UPS bought me nearly $800 worth of Berger Bullets after leaving them on my porch and scribbling something on their box. Everything I every ordered after that with "Adult Signature Required" and "Insured" on it got my door bell rung, and a confirmation signature by me or Mamma on it.
That's the major issue with society today, nobody wants to be responsible for their actions. Everybody has rights, nobody has any responsibilities...
If you ask The Lord for forgiveness for your sins, HE is quick to forgive. He does not generally allow you to escape the consequences.
I recently ordered some freeze dried cans from EE. I did request the unmarked boxes, and they were delivered in plain boxes, but beware the shipping label will still list "Emergency Essentials" as the shipper, so even though it's not written in large print of the side of the box, someone only has to look at the printed shipping label to get the same info.
Weird that their boxes would be marked somehow knowing their customer base and getting more than a few complaints about the marked boxes. Ohh well. Thanks for the forewarning everyone if I ever do put an order in with them.
I realize you were careful about going to get your item, but you said yourself it was only one box not 500 cases of MREs. I think you OPSEC would have been blown much more had you been caught, as you would have been the crazy guy coming up on your neighbors porch to retrieve a single emergency package. What I mean is, they would have wondered much more if they saw you trying to secretly get the package marked "emergency essentials" than if you just talked to them about it. Sometimes the best OPSEC is to play it cool as opposed to "freaking out" about things.
Anyways, glad it worked out, just thought I'd give you something else to think about in case of future problems.
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