Does the UPS or FED EX driver know they are carrying diamonds?

[asscherisme]

I was just thinking today about expensive packages being mailed back and forth. I am narrowing down a diamond pendant I want and its going to be most likely an internet or at least long distance purchase.

That led me to thinking about security and people here mailing thousands of dollars of diamonds across the country each day.

When that fed ex or UPS driver pulls up to your house with a package in hand, and they hand you the clipboard to sign, do they know whats in the package? Do they know the value of it and the contents? That they are carrying expensive jewelry?

Or could they for all they know be carrying a nintendo game that requires a signature. When it requires a signature, is it flagged as a high value item?

Just curious.

by the way, just talking driver, not drop off, but end point driver that brings it to your house.

 

[asscherisme]

Someone has to know??

 

[kenny]

I think some vendors ship them stealth under a business name that does not sound like jewelry.
Even the carrier may not know the contents or value as the vendor may use a private insurance company because they feel stealth is safer.

 

[radiantquest]

I don''t think so. I do know that if the sender does not require signature it is up to the drivers discretion.

I ordered a watch and a silver bracelet from Kohls. The watch was $35 and the bracelet was $11.99. For some reason they shipped in separate packages. The watch was delieverd, no problems. The bracelet didn''t arrive on time. I called the carrier and asked why it was not delivered and they told me that the driver felt that the package should not have just been left. I explained that the first package was worth more and was left without issue and the second that was worth nearly nothing, was becoming an issue since I work and was not in a position to stay home from work to sign for a cheap bracelet. Eventually they put me through to the driver and I was able to assure him that it was ok to leave a $12 bracelet on my porch.

At any rate the package is insured from the sender. Even if they know that it is jewlery they don''t know that it is a diamond or its worth for that matter.

 

[FrekeChild]

They have no idea unless it''s got markings all over the package, which from a jewelry place, it normally doesn''t.

I had a similar experience to radiantquest in that I ordered a $10 shirt from Target, and the UPS guy "attempted" to deliver 3 times, and would NOT leave it in the door--no matter what I did, because it required a signature. It was a really big PITA to have to go pick it up, and I can guarantee you that we and the UPS guy wasted more gas than the stupid shirt was worth.

Meanwhile, all of my jewelry purchases have come to me, no problems (and even been left in the door)!

Now Registered USPS mail....different story, because they suggest irreplaceable items, specifically jewelry and heirloom items, be sent through Registered Mail. However, people get fired if something happens to a registered mail item. BUT, they still don''t know whats in it, unless you state it somewhere. For all they know, it''s a sentimentally valuable crumpled up piece of paper that has no dollar value.

 

[gemgirl]

To my knowledge, no, they don''t know what''s in the package. It''s a package just like any other unidentifiable package. When I bought my e-ring stone pre-PS, my stone was shipped under a ficticious company name("somebody drafting corp."). My finished custom ring from WF was shipped with a return address label that had Vera''s name on it if my memory is correct. There was no mention of Whiteflash on the shipping label.

I just found a copy of my shipping label from when I sent my five diamonds to WF to be set. They went to "WFC, Inc." No one but us would know that''s Whiteflash.

 

[soocool]

I remember the return label on the package did not indicate the "goods" were from a jeweler.

 

[jewelerman]

They dont unless the company sending uses their jewelry store name on the box or there is paper work that the carrier is open to seeing.All the jewelers ive worked for never put the word jeweler on the box or paperwork.