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'It's been hell': Amazon packages mistakenly sent to SJ woman's home

https://abc7news.com/post/huge-pile-amazon-packages-fills-bay-area-womans-driveway-third-party-seller-uses-home-address-returns/17022284/
3•randycupertino•3h ago

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randycupertino•3h ago
The photos of essentially piles of garbage sitting in this poor woman's driveway is outrageous. Insane that Amazon hasn't been helpful or successful at ceasing this activity for over 1 year despite all of her calls and escalations.

Looks like the news coverage actually got Amazon to do something after they ignored the customer's complaints for over a year:

> While we didn't get a direct answer, the tech giant told us: "We'd like to thank ABC 7 On Your Side for bringing this to our attention. We've apologized to the customer and are working directly with her to pick-up any packages while taking steps to permanently resolve this issue."

> And finally, after a year of waiting, some good news for Kay.

> The company removed all the packages on her property this morning, vowing to crack down on these practices.

Infuriating it took a news investigation for Amazon to actually help her.

Finnucane•3h ago
They might fix it for this one person, but not do anything for anybody else caught by a scam like this (it's not a 'mistake' as the headline says--the sellers are doing it deliberately).
duxup•3h ago
Your classic case of nobody who cares is empowered to do the right thing until a news story happens.

Amazon of course doesn't care, that's their MO.

Nicki Minaj reacts to Megan Thee Stallion's legal drama

https://fllics.com/en/entertainment/music/nicki-minaj-reacts-to-megan-thee-stallions-legal-drama/
1•fllics•26s ago•0 comments

Trump appointees stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-appointees-ties-companies-stand-113810376.html
1•ivape•1m ago•0 comments

Pure-bash-Bible: A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes

https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
1•thunderbong•1m ago•0 comments

Unsupervised pretraining in biological neural networks

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09180-y
1•PaulHoule•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to generate charts from text

https://chartfromtext.com
1•kristoff200512•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to show kindness to wild animals

1•apolloartemis•6m ago•1 comments

Amazon in Talks to Deploy AI Tool Cursor as Employee Interest Spikes

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-deploy-cursor-employee-interest-spikes-ai-coding-2025-6
1•portlandiax•12m ago•0 comments

Gallbladder removal: Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-autonomous-gallbladder-robot-realistic-surgery.html
1•pseudolus•12m ago•0 comments

US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/us_sanctions_north_korean_it/
1•rntn•15m ago•0 comments

The Other Immigrant Crisis: Identity Theft

https://www.thefp.com/p/immigrant-crisis-identity-theft
1•fortran77•15m ago•0 comments

Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned?

https://lithub.com/did-shakespeare-write-hamlet-while-he-was-stoned/
1•ohjeez•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ReviLearn – Remember what you read online

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/revilearn/dnmbfpofkngmjmhfmihnibgeeajellmc
1•ganeshsp1•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: I want to install a non-Windows OS on an old laptop. Recommendations?

1•deanebarker•17m ago•4 comments

Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/jack-dorsey-says-his-secure-new-bitchat-app-has-not-been-tested-for-security/
2•_tk_•18m ago•1 comments

Major autism study uncovers biologically distinct subtypes

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/07/09/major-autism-study-uncovers-biologically-distinct-subtypes-paving-way-precision
4•bookofjoe•18m ago•1 comments

The Tandy Corporation, Part 2

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-tandy-corporation-part-2
2•rbanffy•18m ago•0 comments

Finding Beauty and Truth in Mundane Occurrences

https://www.quantamagazine.org/finding-beauty-and-truth-in-mundane-occurrences-20250509/
1•vavooom•18m ago•0 comments

Ultrasound triggers nuclear decay anomaly hinting at flexible space-time

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Ultrasound_triggers_nuclear_decay_anomaly_hinting_at_flexible_space_time_999.html
1•walterbell•18m ago•0 comments

Magenta: Infinite Crate – Live Generative Music VST

https://magenta.withgoogle.com/infinite-crate
3•ukd1•18m ago•0 comments

Electromagnetic smog – A damage and stress factor? (1987)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0302459887800533
1•sandwichsphinx•19m ago•0 comments

All These Notes Don't Pay My Needs, Beethoven's Income

https://internet.beethoven.de/en/exhibition/beethovens-capital/
1•brudgers•19m ago•0 comments

Guixotic, a Guix/Guile worker cooperative

https://lists.gnu.org/r/guix-devel/2025-07/msg00113.html
3•alexkehayias•19m ago•0 comments

Disassembling Python Code Using the `Dis` Module

https://www.thepythoncodingstack.com/p/python-disassembling-bytecode-dis-module
1•rbanffy•21m ago•0 comments

Goldman Wants Quarterly Loyalty Updates

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-07-09/goldman-wants-quarterly-loyalty-updates
2•ioblomov•21m ago•1 comments

Product Categories Supporting Option Breadth

https://varietyiq.com/blog/econ
2•efavdb•21m ago•0 comments

Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-liberal-brains-might-have-some-real-differences/
1•voxadam•22m ago•0 comments

Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/unless-users-take-action-android-will-let-gemini-access-third-party-apps/
5•azinman2•23m ago•0 comments

Zenefits' Aggressive Growth: Robby Allen on growing a 250-rep sales team

https://www.dock.us/grow-and-tell/ep-21-robby-allen
1•mooreds•24m ago•0 comments

Nvidia-backed Perplexity takes on Google with new AI-powered browser

https://qz.com/nvidia-perplexity-comet-ai-powered-browser-google
2•mikece•25m ago•0 comments

How CPython 3.11 quietly made a popular optimization irrelevant

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/old-python-performance-trick
2•rbanffy•27m ago•0 comments