Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

Any Amazon UK employees. Phone and car keys of employee in parcel by mistake

115 replies

Lexy70 · 13/11/2024 19:59

Hi Mumsnet,

Posting for traffic. I received a can of paint via Amazon yesterday, in it was an iPhone and a set of car/house keys.

I have managed to get the man's name and ID via the health info but. I've found him on IG and msg him but no reply.

I am keen to return this phone and set of keys to this young man.

Amazon has been useless.

Any tips for how I can contact/return these items.

Thankyou

OP posts:
rhubarbhandsoap · 13/11/2024 23:43

It’s possible he doesn’t know his number, and hasn’t seen (or been able to contact) anyone that would know his number to call it. (And with no keys, may not have been home.)

I’d be trying to solve it too, I’ve returned phones in the past, much easier before passwords, I just called the contact for ‘mum’!

Hope you get to return them, he’ll be so pleased!

PyongyangKipperbang · 13/11/2024 23:38

People saying its a scam...? WTF?

Sounds more like nasty practical joke. I know that phones etc are banned in many warehouses and have to be kept in lockers, so it may be that it was a work phone (SonIL has one as a Warehouse manager).

"Oh lets put Johns phone and keys in here and watch him shit himself!" and then they didnt stop the parcel going out in time. Can well imagine that happening. Poor sod is probably out of a job now.

rainydays03 · 13/11/2024 23:27

I find it weird how anyone who’s said it’s a scam, isn’t actually saying how it’s a scam 🤦‍♀️

ExcludedatfiveFML · 13/11/2024 23:25

Look for a site code on the box label. Most Amazon depots have a code based on the nearest airport three letter ID.
So LTN1 and LTN4 are depots in the region of Luton Airport, for example. LBA = Doncaster. Etc.

spanishpainting · 13/11/2024 23:22

Sgtmajormummy · 13/11/2024 23:09

You can take a photo without unlocking the iPhone.

If the owner has iCloud and all his photos synch across different Apple devices, you could take a photo with “I have your phone and keys, please call this number: 1234” and it would come up on all his devices.

This is a great idea, though!

spanishpainting · 13/11/2024 23:21

All these suggestions of scams - to what end? How could this entrap someone? Genuinely baffled.....

Esmatoto · 13/11/2024 23:21

Thunderpants88 · 13/11/2024 23:18

That’s weird

whats the first thing you do when you lose your phone? Call it from someone else’s phone.

I smell a scam

Show quote history

I do find it strange no one has called the phone, unless he in unable to for a reason...the mystery deepens.
Also what could the scam possibly be if it were to be one?

Nat6999 · 13/11/2024 23:20

Lexy70 · 13/11/2024 21:12

@socks1107 I'm afraid I live on a Scottish island and it is hundreds of miles to the nearest warehouse

Do you normally get the same delivery person? If you do, order something small & give them back to him then.

Thunderpants88 · 13/11/2024 23:18

Lexy70 · 13/11/2024 21:41

No missed calls since Mon night according to his notifications

That’s weird

whats the first thing you do when you lose your phone? Call it from someone else’s phone.

I smell a scam

Sgtmajormummy · 13/11/2024 23:09

You can take a photo without unlocking the iPhone.

If the owner has iCloud and all his photos synch across different Apple devices, you could take a photo with “I have your phone and keys, please call this number: 1234” and it would come up on all his devices.

TheSquareMile · 13/11/2024 23:08

@Lexy70

I'm assuming that his name is not an extremely common name such as John Smith, OP.

If you know someone who does a bit of amateur genealogy and who has an Ancestry account, he/she might be able to see the registration of the birth of the owner of the phone and then, very likely, the names of his parents and siblings.

The parents or even a sibling might then be visible on the Electoral Registers on Ancestry or on 192.com for later ones.

You could consider sending a letter if your endeavours online don't bear fruit.

SharpOpalNewt · 13/11/2024 23:07

I would go on online chat with an actusl person at Amazon, they will sort it out in a few minutes.

BobbyBiscuits · 13/11/2024 23:02

You've contacted either him or people that know him by all means available. So you can do no more. It's frankly a bit odd he wouldn't immediately respond to try and collect them. He must be pretty disorganised. Or being worked to the bone by the bastards of Amazon?
Anyway just keep it and wait.

bingobanjo · 13/11/2024 22:58

You could take the SIM card out, put it in another phone and use that to call someone.

NoBodyIdRatherBe · 13/11/2024 22:56

Can you say ‘hey siri call Mum’ or ‘mam’ if he’s Middlesbrough.

motelhotel · 13/11/2024 22:53

Tbf I think it's nice you are trying to track him down if Amazon find out he's done this they will probably sack him they don't have the best track record for kindness towards employees.

Wibblywobblybobbly · 13/11/2024 22:34

Have you tried looking in Facebook for people with the same surname who live in Middlesbrough? Or posting on some
Middlesborough Facebook groups?

LovelyDaaling · 13/11/2024 22:32

Can you keep it charged and switched on in case he phones it?

SoNiceToComeHomeTo · 13/11/2024 22:28

The police don't take lost property any more. I'd just wait and hope he eventually looks at Insta.

fashionqueen0123 · 13/11/2024 22:25

Id be trying to track him down too. There is no way the police will go to this effort.

Christwosheds · 13/11/2024 22:23

I wonder if he was robbed and someone secreted the stuff in there ? It’s v weird.

windowcovers · 13/11/2024 22:19

I can't help but just wanted to say I think you are doing a very kind thing in trying to track him down. Even if you can't, at least you know you've tried. Good luck!

Clafoutie · 13/11/2024 22:18

Bekindplease · 13/11/2024 22:13

Do you still have the Amazon box your order came in? It will have a site code on the label which is the location/warehouse the box was packed?

Good point

HÆLTHEPAIN · 13/11/2024 22:16

My friend works for Amazon in their warehouse and we’re near Middlesbrough. If you want to PM me just the name I can ask if she knows him.
There are also another couple of warehouses
close by though so it may not the the right one.

Bekindplease · 13/11/2024 22:13

Do you still have the Amazon box your order came in? It will have a site code on the label which is the location/warehouse the box was packed?

Swipe left for the next trending thread