Comment on How to get a package to the right owner?

• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Here you do not own it. The owner can request it back. But you can’t be bothered to walk to the post office and pay for shipping it back. So you have to keep it available for him to (come or send someone and) pick it up. At least 3 weeks iirc, unless it is perishable goods. Then you can throw it away. If he does not request it back, then you own it after some time (I forgot how long, half a year maybe).

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  • CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I am understanding right, when you say “can’t be bothered”, you mean “can’t be compelled/forced”?

    Seems pretty reasonable, albeit slightly reliant on honesty. At least for scammers, they aren’t likely to want it back, as that would deanonymise them, so if its definitely a scam, your pretty safe to keep it.

    Thanks for the info :)

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