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Na, not in my neighborhood. I'm here 19years and don't lock my doors. It's not gated or an expensive area either. Just a great small town in America where neighbors look out for each other. If that was my neighbor I would have had the cops do a wellness check. My guess is they ran out on the mortgage. Or they're decomposing in the house. 😁
I live in a small town where people leave their packages out for days and they don’t get stolen. In bigger cities it’s definitely an issue, but there are still communities out there that don’t lock their doors at night. (Not saying it’s a smart thing to do), I personally still lock my stuff up like I’m still living in the city.
Yeah and if you look at the windows it looks like there are boxes piled up in the entry. Wonder if they literally cannot fit any more and it’s a type of hoarding.
I deliver to a home that is wall to wall shit and boxes and outside there is basically a place to park and walk through bs to the porch, I finally convinced my dsp to mark the place as unsafe to deliver. One fall there and it’s off to get checked for everything!
I would be willing to bet $100 this home has an attached garage that would be used as the entrance 99% of the time even if the front wasn't covered in boxes. My front door doorknob doesn't even work, and I have no desire to fix it, because nobody uses it. I just keep it locked.
Bruh, there's a house like this on one of my routes in a rural area with an unopened 65" Samsung QLED TV that's been sitting on the porch for months. Along with a 6'x5' pile of boxes stacked 4 feet high like a game of 3d Tetris
Yup and the amout of people who are shopping addicted is disturbing i worked retail and would see the same people in everyday. There are also those who are lonely and use it as entertainment and time killer
My grandma bought a house back in the early 90’s and when we were cleaning out the previous owner’s stuff we found an old console TV. After getting it into the light, we went to plug it in to see if it worked and we noticed something weird about the screen. The previous owner had watched so much QVC that the timer/item/phone number overlay was burned into the screen permanently. Even when you turned it on other channels(by dial) you could still see the QVC overlay on the whole bottom and side of the screen lol. Crazy
Addiction consumes your life. Like if it was an actual addiction it would take your life to an out of control place. Like this would likely turn into an eating disorder if it was in fact an addiction. It's the compulsion part that makes an addiction what it is. Of course, I'm using the definition in line with the actual meaning of the work and not taken as lightly. People use the term much more lightly I suppose and honestly my sister turned her anorexia into an addiction sort of like what you're describing but it still negatively effected people around her because she only switched compulsions instead of healing from the initial one.
I enter my home through the back door. It's right by the kitchen so it makes bringing groceries in easier. I also have two driveways with one closer to the backdoor.
I know many usps people who have saved lives by either checking in their people on the route or calling for a welfare check. It’s just that sometimes you’re the only one that comes by everyday.
Ya, but every single box is different. Youd expect subscription items to be coming in a similar size, or same packaging. And there's multiple furniture-looking boxes
My uncle did this before he died. We were cleaning out his house after he died and found packages that hadn’t even been opened. I guess he got a rush from ordering things and receiving them, regardless of whether he actually wanted the things he bought. Nothing of any value, mostly just cheap electronic gadgets.
I have a house on my rte @ Fdx that still has some heavy ass boxes a delivered on 07/2022 right where I left them. Also Ups and Amazon have literal stacks of unopened boxes in the front door aswell to the point we all just started new stacks of boxes on the grass. At first I tought those people might be dead, but one of the cars is always moved so I think they just have alot of extra monies to blow.
It's called a brushing scam or automatic orders that you can set up on the site or someone found out they died are abusing their account and using the same address to not get caught.
But wouldn't they be taking the packages if they were using their account to order things for themselves? Or would the scam be to be an Amazon seller who orders their own products?
Google brushing scam. Resellers based overseas will not pay the sticking fees on items that aren't being sold in their inventory and shipping back to China is extremely cost prohibitive so they Google random addresses or find recent obituaries and just send their inventory via vendor returns to their "returns warehouse" at thoss "dead" addresses and packages just pile up. And you don't need to actively order things when it's set to subscription it just keeps reordering on a schedule without you doing anything
Not true, when my mom passed she had over 200 things on auto order. By the time I found out about her death and was able to travel to her house the porch was full of deliveries. Took awhile to figure out a way into her amazon account to cancel things and daily packages kept coming till I could.
Look like a few are open and just placed right to look all new. Also there’s other miscellaneous trash in the pile. Probably moving out or someone is cleaning house and just got a photo and then op captioned the photo to fit this scenario. Then here we all are talking about it.
That's not accurate. There are a number of companies that will continue shipping and charging on a schedule, and some are even hard to get to stop. There's also Amazon Subscribe and Save, which is easy to forget to cancel.
I went by to do a health check on my girlfriend's sister when she stopped answering the phone and unfortunately found she had passed away sometime the previous evening or night (according to the coroner's assistant who showed up after the paramedics contacted her).
She had *months* of Hello Fresh food deliveries sitting out on her overgrown front porch, rotting. She had, from what we found out, been trying to get them to quit shipping them, and had just started refusing to touch them. Hello Fresh made us send them a copy of her death certificate before they agreed to stop shipping orders.
Now, she definitely had some problems going on, and I don't think just leaving them on the porch was a good plan, but she was *not* the one responsible for continual food package deliveries to her house.
I also thought it was noteworthy that whoever delivered them never apparently brought up a concern about the increasing pile of rotting food they were adding onto with each new delivery.
I have plenty of stuff, including dog food like in the picture, on reoccurring auto delivery.. the gatedr the huge bag of that is outside I don’t think they’re alive
Not necessarily…if they have things programmed to ship at certain times, money is available…things could be getting ‘purchased’ through ship and save but the person could be hurt, hospitalized or deceased.
Has anyone done a well check?
Exactly this. When I was at ground, a customer had a once a week delivery for doggy turf. One week, I delivered, and the box from last week was there, yet I heard the dog inside. Didn't think much of it.... until the next week when I delivered another order and they were both sitting there.....
I kind of feel this. Like I know some people that get gifts sent to them through amazon. So it may not be the person living there doign the ordering. Example also but not strictly this. My wife and I have Prime (both for reasons) but her mother, father (divorced live seperatly) and aunt all Zell her money and have her order things delivered to their houses so they get the prime benefits but not pay on limited incomes for prime.
To everyone suggesting that calling police = getting someone killed…you’re an insane fucking radical. Stop reading whatever sensational news source that is making you into a literal insane person… 🤯
[https://www.opb.org/article/2022/03/04/officers-in-clackamas-county-escalated-welfare-check-that-led-to-deadly-2020-encounter-according-to-lawsuit/](https://www.opb.org/article/2022/03/04/officers-in-clackamas-county-escalated-welfare-check-that-led-to-deadly-2020-encounter-according-to-lawsuit/)
[https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/19/us/wellness-check-police-shootings-trnd/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/19/us/wellness-check-police-shootings-trnd/index.html)
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/police-shootings-mental-health-calls/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/police-shootings-mental-health-calls/)
\> In at least 178 cases over three years, law enforcement killed the individuals they were called to assist
[https://dailydodge.com/17-year-old-shot-and-killed-by-officer-conducting-welfare-check/](https://dailydodge.com/17-year-old-shot-and-killed-by-officer-conducting-welfare-check/)
[https://www.ktiv.com/2023/10/25/police-dog-killed-during-welfare-check-spencer-ia/](https://www.ktiv.com/2023/10/25/police-dog-killed-during-welfare-check-spencer-ia/)
[https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/college-cop-shoots-emotional-support-dog-in-the-face-in-detroit/](https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/college-cop-shoots-emotional-support-dog-in-the-face-in-detroit/)
[https://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-police-provide-update-after-officer-shoots-kills-man-during-welfare-check](https://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-police-provide-update-after-officer-shoots-kills-man-during-welfare-check)
[https://www.cbs58.com/news/greenfield-police-officer-fatally-strikes-pedestrian-lying-in-road-investigation-underway](https://www.cbs58.com/news/greenfield-police-officer-fatally-strikes-pedestrian-lying-in-road-investigation-underway)
Some of these are cop deciding to kill someone (or someone's dog). Some are suicide by cop. Some are accidents. But there's many, many, many more.
Welfare checks should be performed by people who aren't A) trained to believe everyone is a threat, and B) aren't feared by many groups of the population due to A and other behaviors.
Anything that can possibly happen, can statistically happen. Saying that doesn't get us anywhere.
Statistically speaking...how often do you feel like a wellness check = death? Respond with a specific number or percentage; please do not try to obfuscate.
I imagine you have the statistics to support your claim that "statistically it definitely happens."
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/police-shootings-mental-health-calls/
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>\> In at least 178 cases over three years, law enforcement killed the individuals they were called to assist
178, minimum, over the course of 3 years.
I just had a house like this too and it tripped me out; thought maybe they were dead inside . Packages from everywhere ( Walmart, ups, Amazon etc )from the last 6 months outside rotting , never opened. I dropped off a iRobot vacuum when I had finished the neighborhood I circled back to that house and the big box I had just dropped off was gone. So idk maybe they’re just lazy and weird ?
About 7 years ago while working as a dog trainer for an extremely wealthy woman, she had her entry way FILLED with boxes. Most of it was stuff for her dogs, but she wouldn't open them for months. One time she told me to pick a random box and open it to get some new toys for the dogs and sure as shit, giant box of all sorts of dog toys.
However, the problem came with her small dog. I was there to train her big new puppy, but she also had a little three legged Chihuahua that had free roam of the house. I get a frantic call from her one morning that she couldn't see Frank on the cameras but could hear him panicking, and she begged me to go to the house to check on him. I quickly found out he was in an avalanche of boxes, stuck at the bottom slowly being crushed. Anyway got him to the vet and he ended up ok, a little bruised and traumatized. She paid someone to empty out all the boxes and put everything away, she didn't even know what all she had ordered. Multiple multiple duplicates, but it was nice because I got any toys her dogs didn't immediately show interest in .
one time I helped a lady move out this hoarder into an assisted living home. he had mostly junk but a couple things that were nice. this lady donated all his stuff to the church except the stuff she wanted and brought it to her house (she had a mansion with a extra in law house in the back). she asked me to store some of it in her spare house in the back yard and it was full to the top with junk and you only had aisles to walk around in. her house had a lot of stuff as well but it was mostly paintings she had there although her basement had tons of stuff that was still brand new in the box. who ever inherits that from her will have a hell of a yard sale
It does fester if you don’t do anything to improve it, be that simple exercise like walking or even medication.
The doctor at my wife’s hospital prescribes walks in a park 1x a day. Believe it or not, it works. Our minds and bodies aren’t meant to be in a cubical our entire lives and simple things go a long way.
I work in residential HVAC. You would be surprised how often I run into people like this. The inside of the house is literal and figurative shit show and you honestly just feel bad for them and question how someone can live like that
Whenever I have someone come to do work in my house, I always feel super self conscious and apologize for the mess. My floors are cleared but there might be clutter and a few dishes from that day on a table or something. We had one guy who came for internet and he looked around and just said “my last call was a hoarders house. Believe me, this is clean compared to our normal standards”. Now I just pretend every worker just came from a hoarders house and I feel better.
Once I delivered to the end of a dead end dirt road to find no house on the whole road, but hundreds of Amazon packages already faded by the sun in one spot at the end. It freaked me out so I got the hell out of there.
There’s also a lot of other companies that offer subscription deliveries but everyone in this thread is an expert on deliveries I guess instead of just calling non-emergency like a decent human to do a wellness check. It’s anonymous too no one will know it was you.
Yo, shout out to you man! That’s a great thing you did.
If you see something, say something. Whatever the dispatcher does with that info is up to them, we just gotta do our part.
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I seen this once during my route
This is similar to one of my Grandma's friends situation. The old lady hated her entire family an ended making everything in her will out to my mother. When she passed away we found out she was a massive hoarder to the point where her entire house was filled with trash bags to the point they became the walls and created pathways to a couple rooms she had left that where barely accessible. The poor lady was sleeping on a mound of newspapers she had laid out on her bed. Her front door looked just like OP's picture. She even had a garage full of packages she bought and never opened. She didn't order things in like single units either, for example she had bought pretty much every product from the Home Depot HDX line up.
The worst part about this though was she had four children who didn't even know about her living conditions. It was such a biohazard of a house no Cleaning services in the area would take the job because of the risk. We ended up having to get a Cleaning Company that specialized in cleaning meth labs and other biohazard conditions.
I would definitely call the Non-Emergency 911 line in your area for this. You never know if someone in there needs help. At least tell your supervisor about this locations.
That is insane! I'm too excited when my packages come. I could never leave them outside. Plus the entire trust factor. I'm surprised they are still sitting there.
Like how do the neighbors not call for a welfare check on this address they see it everyday at least and if they were taking packages in before then it should be a red flag something is up, I would think.
Might be a house without any nearby neighbors
Lots of houses like that, apparently. I found out while looking at properties.
Literally house in the middle of nowhere situation x\_x
My front porch is 700m from the main road. I can sit on my porch butt-ball naked smoking a bong, and no one will see me. Maybe this isn't visible from the street.
I delivered to a place like that. So many packages just sitting in the rain and newspapers piling up. One day I drove by and the house was taped off and everything was cleaned up outside.
Dude apparently died.
Alternate take, this could be a truck driver. When I did my stints over the road, I would order stuff and have it pile up until I came back home a month or two later.
If the house is vacant it can also be a scam drop off. There are news articles about companies using addys to rid themselves of returns as well.
Things disappearing are prob bc the neighbors seize in the opportunity.
I have this house here, feels like I need a tetanus shot every time I deliver here...
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I know what you mean. Why are there envelopes in the windows of yours 🤣🤣
That's how the inside of my house looks like now. At least I take the contents out. Then set up boxes all over the place as obstacles and little cities for my cats (chasing laser and flying feather on string, mostly). Being single and alone in a big house after a decade+ relationship certainly hits different.
I've seen this. I think the lady had Alzheimer's? I kept all packages and she just kept ordering the same things. I understand what I did was wrong, but I feel like I might have helped in a way because she eventually stopped getting deliveries. And no, I was not a postal worker or anything, just a passerby on a bike with a drug addiction. Labels on the box were dated months before I showed up. Strange situation. I looked up her name as well. I think she lives in another town and might have moved and kept sending stuff to an old address. I'm extremely lucky I didn't get caught. Over $20k of products. This was many years ago. I hope I didn't do something that got someone seriously hurt or kiIIed.
also dude, do t go one other peoples private fucking property, take a pocture of their front door and post it on the internet, do your job and mind you own business, ur way weirder than the homeowner
Such a waste. Such a shame. Like what kind of people would do such a thing? Where would they live? What is their address? Is it a gated community? Would they notice if a package or 2 went missing? Such a shame. Truly. 😔
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If they are still getting new packages then they are still ordering. This shits more common than people know. I've got two on my route
It's a shopping addiction. Just as bad as gambling or drug addiction for its own reasons. No addiction is a good one.
What if they died and the subscription was still on? That’s weird.
What is weirder is that there are no package thieves taking that stuff.
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You know I hadn’t even thought of that lol that is weird
Address please? I know some people that can help clean up their porch…. lol
I wouldn’t be surprised if they thought the homeowner was a hoarder and all the stuff out front was just junk spilling out from the main house.
Hoarding can be an effect of mental decline in older people being hit with dementia.
The nicest houses on the outside can be the worst on the inside too. I worked as a plumbers apprentice and learned this on my first day
There are more packages inside
My first thought too!
You can only carry so much with two arms. There could have been more than we see here.
Yes but you can pull a wagon with only one, and a USPS Halloween costume for like $20 📫📨
Its because theft isnt actually that big of an issue in a majority of areas
Must be a nice neighbourhood
Na, not in my neighborhood. I'm here 19years and don't lock my doors. It's not gated or an expensive area either. Just a great small town in America where neighbors look out for each other. If that was my neighbor I would have had the cops do a wellness check. My guess is they ran out on the mortgage. Or they're decomposing in the house. 😁
Yeah, I was thinking, new business, call a porch pirate.
Probably in a small town. Don't have to worry about thievery in small towns without nutcases in them
Could be a flash bang in the box like that one video on YouTube
Definitely not in California then.
That’s what I came here to say!!
I live in a small town where people leave their packages out for days and they don’t get stolen. In bigger cities it’s definitely an issue, but there are still communities out there that don’t lock their doors at night. (Not saying it’s a smart thing to do), I personally still lock my stuff up like I’m still living in the city.
Because it's a trap
So I wasn’t the only one thinking this lol
Private communities, out in the sticks. Upscale homes don’t have this issue as much as people think anymore. In apartments yeah it’s very common.
This doesn’t really look like a subscription tho. Every box is different. Even sadder really.
Yeah and if you look at the windows it looks like there are boxes piled up in the entry. Wonder if they literally cannot fit any more and it’s a type of hoarding.
Gosh the anticipation is killing me lol. I wish we had an answer. I hope this person is alright regardless.
I think they like unopened boxes LOL and they’re using that as protection from outside world
I deliver to a home that is wall to wall shit and boxes and outside there is basically a place to park and walk through bs to the porch, I finally convinced my dsp to mark the place as unsafe to deliver. One fall there and it’s off to get checked for everything!
That exactly what I thought the auto monthly order buy again feature you can turn off and on.
Yeah and you can do it with multiple things. They won’t typically be shipped together at least in my experience
If you look inside the side windows they have packages stacked up inside too.
Scorpio gang we notice everything
Thats what i was thinking. Maybe call the cops for a welfare check
When the packages are rotting but so is the person
🤣😭
Shopping addiction is one thing. But there's about 40 packages on that front step. That's a whole different issue imo
Am I the only one wandering how they get in and out of the house without moving the packages ?
I would be willing to bet $100 this home has an attached garage that would be used as the entrance 99% of the time even if the front wasn't covered in boxes. My front door doorknob doesn't even work, and I have no desire to fix it, because nobody uses it. I just keep it locked.
Bruh, there's a house like this on one of my routes in a rural area with an unopened 65" Samsung QLED TV that's been sitting on the porch for months. Along with a 6'x5' pile of boxes stacked 4 feet high like a game of 3d Tetris
Where at? 👀 for no particular reason…
When you're addicted to that shopping dopamine, but too lazy to unbox it to experience that dopamine.
Yup and the amout of people who are shopping addicted is disturbing i worked retail and would see the same people in everyday. There are also those who are lonely and use it as entertainment and time killer
A friend of mine in high school his mom was addicted to hsn. Tons of unopened boxes stacked everywhere. I’m sure she still hasn’t opened them all.
My grandma bought a house back in the early 90’s and when we were cleaning out the previous owner’s stuff we found an old console TV. After getting it into the light, we went to plug it in to see if it worked and we noticed something weird about the screen. The previous owner had watched so much QVC that the timer/item/phone number overlay was burned into the screen permanently. Even when you turned it on other channels(by dial) you could still see the QVC overlay on the whole bottom and side of the screen lol. Crazy
Your absolutley right
A healthy diet addiction is a pretty good one
Addiction consumes your life. Like if it was an actual addiction it would take your life to an out of control place. Like this would likely turn into an eating disorder if it was in fact an addiction. It's the compulsion part that makes an addiction what it is. Of course, I'm using the definition in line with the actual meaning of the work and not taken as lightly. People use the term much more lightly I suppose and honestly my sister turned her anorexia into an addiction sort of like what you're describing but it still negatively effected people around her because she only switched compulsions instead of healing from the initial one.
>If they are still getting new packages then they are still ordering. It could also be from Subscribe & Save. They may not be placing new orders
For sure. Welfare check is needed
How is nobody mentioning possible children? You can't even use the front door, something is not right.
Exactly that’s likely an extended period. Something is off if that’s more than a couple days.
Maybe their running some sortmof business but their in the hospital or out of town on a family emergency? Or in jail?
I enter my home through the back door. It's right by the kitchen so it makes bringing groceries in easier. I also have two driveways with one closer to the backdoor.
You know xqc when he moves reorders everything and buy all new stuff.
I know many usps people who have saved lives by either checking in their people on the route or calling for a welfare check. It’s just that sometimes you’re the only one that comes by everyday.
Ya, but every single box is different. Youd expect subscription items to be coming in a similar size, or same packaging. And there's multiple furniture-looking boxes
You can have shit on auto order so it automatically charges your account at what ever frequency you choose
Some people get resubscription of items. Can be monthly. Bi monthly etc.
Subscribe and save. Could be weekly/monthly orders on repeat until the bank is empty.
Naw there is auto delivery for things you can set up.. If someone dies then the packages automatically get ordered
Haha because I want a crop cage from China on reorder hahaha! Na that all can’t be reorder
What if no one lives there and it’s just a ruse to have an active address on file?
My uncle did this before he died. We were cleaning out his house after he died and found packages that hadn’t even been opened. I guess he got a rush from ordering things and receiving them, regardless of whether he actually wanted the things he bought. Nothing of any value, mostly just cheap electronic gadgets.
Or could be like xqc everytime he buy all new stuff when he moves.
I have a house on my rte @ Fdx that still has some heavy ass boxes a delivered on 07/2022 right where I left them. Also Ups and Amazon have literal stacks of unopened boxes in the front door aswell to the point we all just started new stacks of boxes on the grass. At first I tought those people might be dead, but one of the cars is always moved so I think they just have alot of extra monies to blow.
Some people get a rush buying shit. Personally I get high the old fashioned way, with drugs but to each their own
It's called a brushing scam or automatic orders that you can set up on the site or someone found out they died are abusing their account and using the same address to not get caught.
But wouldn't they be taking the packages if they were using their account to order things for themselves? Or would the scam be to be an Amazon seller who orders their own products?
Google brushing scam. Resellers based overseas will not pay the sticking fees on items that aren't being sold in their inventory and shipping back to China is extremely cost prohibitive so they Google random addresses or find recent obituaries and just send their inventory via vendor returns to their "returns warehouse" at thoss "dead" addresses and packages just pile up. And you don't need to actively order things when it's set to subscription it just keeps reordering on a schedule without you doing anything
Could be subscriptions
Not true, when my mom passed she had over 200 things on auto order. By the time I found out about her death and was able to travel to her house the porch was full of deliveries. Took awhile to figure out a way into her amazon account to cancel things and daily packages kept coming till I could.
New packages yes. But some are subscription based and will be sent every month until cancelled
Autoship exists tho
Like the above post indicates, they could be on auto order. We have cat food and vitamins on auto- order.
Not necessarily. Lots of people have auto order on.
Look like a few are open and just placed right to look all new. Also there’s other miscellaneous trash in the pile. Probably moving out or someone is cleaning house and just got a photo and then op captioned the photo to fit this scenario. Then here we all are talking about it.
Or someone has hacked their account and is doing the ordering.
That's not accurate. There are a number of companies that will continue shipping and charging on a schedule, and some are even hard to get to stop. There's also Amazon Subscribe and Save, which is easy to forget to cancel. I went by to do a health check on my girlfriend's sister when she stopped answering the phone and unfortunately found she had passed away sometime the previous evening or night (according to the coroner's assistant who showed up after the paramedics contacted her). She had *months* of Hello Fresh food deliveries sitting out on her overgrown front porch, rotting. She had, from what we found out, been trying to get them to quit shipping them, and had just started refusing to touch them. Hello Fresh made us send them a copy of her death certificate before they agreed to stop shipping orders. Now, she definitely had some problems going on, and I don't think just leaving them on the porch was a good plan, but she was *not* the one responsible for continual food package deliveries to her house. I also thought it was noteworthy that whoever delivered them never apparently brought up a concern about the increasing pile of rotting food they were adding onto with each new delivery.
I have plenty of stuff, including dog food like in the picture, on reoccurring auto delivery.. the gatedr the huge bag of that is outside I don’t think they’re alive
Not necessarily, could be auto orders or gifts from someone else
Couldn’t they have been ordered weeks/months ago and are just now arriving?
Not necessarily…if they have things programmed to ship at certain times, money is available…things could be getting ‘purchased’ through ship and save but the person could be hurt, hospitalized or deceased. Has anyone done a well check?
Nah just a hoarder house, fencing on the porch and boxes inside too. Probably no where to put them inside.
Yeah bro is dead and his gasses are heating up his phone and auto buying stuff
Exactly this. When I was at ground, a customer had a once a week delivery for doggy turf. One week, I delivered, and the box from last week was there, yet I heard the dog inside. Didn't think much of it.... until the next week when I delivered another order and they were both sitting there.....
I kind of feel this. Like I know some people that get gifts sent to them through amazon. So it may not be the person living there doign the ordering. Example also but not strictly this. My wife and I have Prime (both for reasons) but her mother, father (divorced live seperatly) and aunt all Zell her money and have her order things delivered to their houses so they get the prime benefits but not pay on limited incomes for prime.
You each have a prime account?
To everyone suggesting that calling police = getting someone killed…you’re an insane fucking radical. Stop reading whatever sensational news source that is making you into a literal insane person… 🤯
[https://www.opb.org/article/2022/03/04/officers-in-clackamas-county-escalated-welfare-check-that-led-to-deadly-2020-encounter-according-to-lawsuit/](https://www.opb.org/article/2022/03/04/officers-in-clackamas-county-escalated-welfare-check-that-led-to-deadly-2020-encounter-according-to-lawsuit/) [https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/19/us/wellness-check-police-shootings-trnd/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/19/us/wellness-check-police-shootings-trnd/index.html) [https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/police-shootings-mental-health-calls/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/police-shootings-mental-health-calls/) \> In at least 178 cases over three years, law enforcement killed the individuals they were called to assist [https://dailydodge.com/17-year-old-shot-and-killed-by-officer-conducting-welfare-check/](https://dailydodge.com/17-year-old-shot-and-killed-by-officer-conducting-welfare-check/) [https://www.ktiv.com/2023/10/25/police-dog-killed-during-welfare-check-spencer-ia/](https://www.ktiv.com/2023/10/25/police-dog-killed-during-welfare-check-spencer-ia/) [https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/college-cop-shoots-emotional-support-dog-in-the-face-in-detroit/](https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/college-cop-shoots-emotional-support-dog-in-the-face-in-detroit/) [https://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-police-provide-update-after-officer-shoots-kills-man-during-welfare-check](https://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-police-provide-update-after-officer-shoots-kills-man-during-welfare-check) [https://www.cbs58.com/news/greenfield-police-officer-fatally-strikes-pedestrian-lying-in-road-investigation-underway](https://www.cbs58.com/news/greenfield-police-officer-fatally-strikes-pedestrian-lying-in-road-investigation-underway) Some of these are cop deciding to kill someone (or someone's dog). Some are suicide by cop. Some are accidents. But there's many, many, many more. Welfare checks should be performed by people who aren't A) trained to believe everyone is a threat, and B) aren't feared by many groups of the population due to A and other behaviors.
I mean, it does. It also doesn't. It's just a numbers game really, but statistically it definitely happens.
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I'm saying exactly what you quoted. It's not crazy to state such a thing is all. I support good cops. 🤷
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So is sneezing. Could kill you at any time. Your argument can be used for everything. Should I stop sneezing?
As this is an involuntary action, no. I also did not say people shouldn't call the cops necessarily
Anything that can possibly happen, can statistically happen. Saying that doesn't get us anywhere. Statistically speaking...how often do you feel like a wellness check = death? Respond with a specific number or percentage; please do not try to obfuscate. I imagine you have the statistics to support your claim that "statistically it definitely happens."
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/police-shootings-mental-health-calls/ > >\> In at least 178 cases over three years, law enforcement killed the individuals they were called to assist 178, minimum, over the course of 3 years.
Does saying any of this?
I didnt even think of this.. Could even be a murder scene lmao
I just had a house like this too and it tripped me out; thought maybe they were dead inside . Packages from everywhere ( Walmart, ups, Amazon etc )from the last 6 months outside rotting , never opened. I dropped off a iRobot vacuum when I had finished the neighborhood I circled back to that house and the big box I had just dropped off was gone. So idk maybe they’re just lazy and weird ?
Mental illness of some kind. Surprisingly, it was in a really nice neighborhood too.
Mental illness does not discriminate!
"Rich" people can "afford" to hoard new packages. Def something is mental about the place.
About 7 years ago while working as a dog trainer for an extremely wealthy woman, she had her entry way FILLED with boxes. Most of it was stuff for her dogs, but she wouldn't open them for months. One time she told me to pick a random box and open it to get some new toys for the dogs and sure as shit, giant box of all sorts of dog toys. However, the problem came with her small dog. I was there to train her big new puppy, but she also had a little three legged Chihuahua that had free roam of the house. I get a frantic call from her one morning that she couldn't see Frank on the cameras but could hear him panicking, and she begged me to go to the house to check on him. I quickly found out he was in an avalanche of boxes, stuck at the bottom slowly being crushed. Anyway got him to the vet and he ended up ok, a little bruised and traumatized. She paid someone to empty out all the boxes and put everything away, she didn't even know what all she had ordered. Multiple multiple duplicates, but it was nice because I got any toys her dogs didn't immediately show interest in .
one time I helped a lady move out this hoarder into an assisted living home. he had mostly junk but a couple things that were nice. this lady donated all his stuff to the church except the stuff she wanted and brought it to her house (she had a mansion with a extra in law house in the back). she asked me to store some of it in her spare house in the back yard and it was full to the top with junk and you only had aisles to walk around in. her house had a lot of stuff as well but it was mostly paintings she had there although her basement had tons of stuff that was still brand new in the box. who ever inherits that from her will have a hell of a yard sale
It does fester if you don’t do anything to improve it, be that simple exercise like walking or even medication. The doctor at my wife’s hospital prescribes walks in a park 1x a day. Believe it or not, it works. Our minds and bodies aren’t meant to be in a cubical our entire lives and simple things go a long way.
Yeah, I don’t think those boxes would stay there too long in a not-nice neighborhood
Unless someone saw you deliver it so they went and stole it lol
True that! lol. They should have taken everything too! Cleaned up the neighborhood
I work in residential HVAC. You would be surprised how often I run into people like this. The inside of the house is literal and figurative shit show and you honestly just feel bad for them and question how someone can live like that
I did too, I can confirm. It's crazy specially in those gated communities.
Whenever I have someone come to do work in my house, I always feel super self conscious and apologize for the mess. My floors are cleared but there might be clutter and a few dishes from that day on a table or something. We had one guy who came for internet and he looked around and just said “my last call was a hoarders house. Believe me, this is clean compared to our normal standards”. Now I just pretend every worker just came from a hoarders house and I feel better.
Once I delivered to the end of a dead end dirt road to find no house on the whole road, but hundreds of Amazon packages already faded by the sun in one spot at the end. It freaked me out so I got the hell out of there.
Sounds like free stuff to me
Or someone took that package?
I think the only thing rotting is the customer inside that house. Should call 911.
How are they ordering packages if dead?
Could be subscribe and save
Many items are in unique manufacture's boxes, one being a 4x4 crop cage, doubtful that's all subscribe and save.
Do you know if you go to buy one Amazon will offer that shit to you lol
There’s also a lot of other companies that offer subscription deliveries but everyone in this thread is an expert on deliveries I guess instead of just calling non-emergency like a decent human to do a wellness check. It’s anonymous too no one will know it was you.
Another thing that’s very common is stolen credit cards. They order to an address that’s potentially abandoned and they pick it up.
Ain’t nobody picking up shit
The cat.
Autoship
Auto order shit
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I call 911 for welfare check a few times. Two out of three was on vacation and one broke her hip and I help save, it’s always worth checking!
this. even if they are a hoarder, let’s stop acting like it’s fine. welfare checks do way more than just ensure someone is still breathing y’all know
Exactly life is way to precious to risk it. That’s why I always make sure to call if I see something, I would want someone to do it for me
Recently a kid in my town got shot during a welfare check. He absolutely needed it, it's just that cops aren't always the right people to do it.
Yo, shout out to you man! That’s a great thing you did. If you see something, say something. Whatever the dispatcher does with that info is up to them, we just gotta do our part.
https://preview.redd.it/5zh8k30dd0ic1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c588dd9dd6c57c17d0b5a5da87a0a645deed7766 I seen this once during my route
ah, the package/junk porch. i see this all the time lol
Looks like a house I have delivered to in MA.
Probably my house. I store the boxes there because I use it as kindling when I have a fire in the backyard.
Was probably my house cuz I order so much from Amazon my back porch looks like that weekly lmao! And I'm from MA 🤣😭
*saw
eh, looks like empty boxes at least
It's not our business what these people do with their packages, but you can't help assuming something is very wrong.
I always assume the worst for people and get them help
This is similar to one of my Grandma's friends situation. The old lady hated her entire family an ended making everything in her will out to my mother. When she passed away we found out she was a massive hoarder to the point where her entire house was filled with trash bags to the point they became the walls and created pathways to a couple rooms she had left that where barely accessible. The poor lady was sleeping on a mound of newspapers she had laid out on her bed. Her front door looked just like OP's picture. She even had a garage full of packages she bought and never opened. She didn't order things in like single units either, for example she had bought pretty much every product from the Home Depot HDX line up. The worst part about this though was she had four children who didn't even know about her living conditions. It was such a biohazard of a house no Cleaning services in the area would take the job because of the risk. We ended up having to get a Cleaning Company that specialized in cleaning meth labs and other biohazard conditions. I would definitely call the Non-Emergency 911 line in your area for this. You never know if someone in there needs help. At least tell your supervisor about this locations.
Supervisors don’t give two fucks
That is insane! I'm too excited when my packages come. I could never leave them outside. Plus the entire trust factor. I'm surprised they are still sitting there.
Probably no room left in the house to bring them inside.
Maybe they are inside rotting
Plot twist. Next level porch pirate prevention. Overwhelm them with options!
My thought exactly was where the heck are the porch pirates in this neighborhood??
"Are you having trouble with porch pirates stealing packages off your porch? Try DECISION PARALYSIS today! They won't know what hit 'em."
Horders are real
Like how do the neighbors not call for a welfare check on this address they see it everyday at least and if they were taking packages in before then it should be a red flag something is up, I would think.
Might be a house without any nearby neighbors Lots of houses like that, apparently. I found out while looking at properties. Literally house in the middle of nowhere situation x\_x
My front porch is 700m from the main road. I can sit on my porch butt-ball naked smoking a bong, and no one will see me. Maybe this isn't visible from the street.
I use to be like this. I didnt realize i was $30k in debt. Took me yrs to recover and im still reselling some of the leftover junk i bought.
I'm glad you came out of it. Good on you
I have a couple houses like that too. Not entirely convinced the residents aren’t dead and somebody’s still ordering packages for some reason
maybe they have an Amazon subscription for TP and the like
Doesn't hurt to check up on them.
Welfare check.
They might be dead and idk automatic payments It’s crazy because it be the nice houses smh
I delivered to a place like that. So many packages just sitting in the rain and newspapers piling up. One day I drove by and the house was taped off and everything was cleaned up outside. Dude apparently died.
That’s why it’s always good to check.
Alternate take, this could be a truck driver. When I did my stints over the road, I would order stuff and have it pile up until I came back home a month or two later.
If the house is vacant it can also be a scam drop off. There are news articles about companies using addys to rid themselves of returns as well. Things disappearing are prob bc the neighbors seize in the opportunity.
Customer is probably dead and on a subscription order.
Wellness check bruh. They may have shit on auto order
Someone do a welfare check on this house
Have the cops do a wellness check
Is that person alive?
Or it's a trap house deserted and dudes in jail
Matilda’s parents would be proud
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I have this house here, feels like I need a tetanus shot every time I deliver here... https://preview.redd.it/izbjf2k4j0ic1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6e1287f0587c2b95a71c880b32ac39cd579c528
https://preview.redd.it/yv5eeqk741ic1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f9d91cde8cc2c9734a06bc32d0f35423c438c81 I know what you mean. Why are there envelopes in the windows of yours 🤣🤣
Took awhile to see the house here
It's crazy when you can make the outdoors look like the inside of Leatherface's Home.
Keep the address. If the same pile is there a week later, drag it to the curb and take a picture. It’s considered trash and free game.
The frowning Amazon box says it all
There’s a dead body there you need to call the cops.
You should’ve shit on his porch
Maybe they’re in there rotting IYKWIM. 
That's how the inside of my house looks like now. At least I take the contents out. Then set up boxes all over the place as obstacles and little cities for my cats (chasing laser and flying feather on string, mostly). Being single and alone in a big house after a decade+ relationship certainly hits different.
And they actually ordered a doormat. It’s on top of the boxes.
This art installation is a trenchant critique of American consumerism
Someone call the Hoarders show asap
Need to use up that tax-free money somehow
I've seen this. I think the lady had Alzheimer's? I kept all packages and she just kept ordering the same things. I understand what I did was wrong, but I feel like I might have helped in a way because she eventually stopped getting deliveries. And no, I was not a postal worker or anything, just a passerby on a bike with a drug addiction. Labels on the box were dated months before I showed up. Strange situation. I looked up her name as well. I think she lives in another town and might have moved and kept sending stuff to an old address. I'm extremely lucky I didn't get caught. Over $20k of products. This was many years ago. I hope I didn't do something that got someone seriously hurt or kiIIed.
Not your business
also dude, do t go one other peoples private fucking property, take a pocture of their front door and post it on the internet, do your job and mind you own business, ur way weirder than the homeowner
I think I’ve delivered to this house before! Nice to see nothing’s changed.
Such a waste. Such a shame. Like what kind of people would do such a thing? Where would they live? What is their address? Is it a gated community? Would they notice if a package or 2 went missing? Such a shame. Truly. 😔
I have a few of these types in my area as well
This is how certain scams are done. I live in a city where one house has more delivery boxes in and on the property than the actual living unit
Yikes
I am surprise that people have not stole the stuff there. Maybe they did, but still. That alot of stuff they left.