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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•6h ago

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randycupertino•6h 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•5h 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•5h 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.

ISS Astronaut Captures Photo of Rare Lightning Sprite Shooting Upward

https://petapixel.com/2025/07/07/iss-astronaut-captures-photo-of-rare-lightning-sprite-shooting-upward/
1•cs702•2m ago•0 comments

Iceberg, the Right Idea – The Wrong Spec – Part 2 of 2: The Spec

https://database-doctor.com/posts/iceberg-is-wrong-2.html
1•dkdcio•3m ago•0 comments

Hiring for Front End(React.js)with AI and CoPilot

1•CliftonBennett•3m ago•0 comments

Memory-Level Parallelism: Apple M2 vs. Apple M4

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/07/09/memory-level-parallelism-apple-m2-vs-apple-m4/
1•zdw•4m ago•0 comments

How Soviet Russia Once Bugged an American Embassy's Typewriters (2019)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-crazy-story-of-how-soviet-russia-bugged-an-american-embassys-typewriters
1•downboots•5m ago•0 comments

AfriNIC: Hope, Hijack, and the Harsh Lessons of African Multistakeholderism

https://medium.com/@emmanuelvitus/afrinic-hope-hijack-and-the-harsh-lessons-of-african-multistakeholderism-8e8378797101
1•healsdata•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made ChatChain, a chrome extension, auto adds timestamps to ChatGPT

https://www.chatchain.chat/
1•tzvipi•7m ago•0 comments

Trump announces 50% tariff on Brazil for Bolsonaro trial, trade deficit

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/trump-brazil-tariffs-bolsonaro.html
2•kamaraju•7m ago•0 comments

We Can't Stop Multitasking

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/multitasking/
1•HieronymusBosch•8m ago•0 comments

How did wet and warm Mars become a cold, barren desert?

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/exploration/mars-cold-desert-curiosity/
1•Bluestein•10m ago•0 comments

Pattern machines that we don't understand

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/06/01/pattern-machines-that-we-dont-understand/
1•gtirloni•11m ago•0 comments

The surprising revival of road bowling, Ireland's ancient sport

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0709/1522577-road-bowling-ireland-sport-heritage-tradition-cork-armagh-tiktok-instagram/
1•austinallegro•12m ago•0 comments

Zerank-1, new sota LLM reranker

https://zeroentropy.beehiiv.com/p/introducing-zerank-1
1•jiwidi•16m ago•0 comments

Diffusion Elites: surprisingly good, simple and embarrassingly parallel

https://blog.christianperone.com/2025/07/diffusion-elites/
2•perone•16m ago•0 comments

Apple COO Jeff Williams to Pass Role to Lieutenant Sabih Khan

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/apple-operating-chief-jeff-williams-to-pass-role-to-lieutenant
1•Bogdanp•17m ago•0 comments

Devouring Details

https://devouringdetails.com/
1•mbaytas•19m ago•0 comments

How AI on Microcontrollers Actually Works: The Computation Graph

https://danielmangum.com/posts/ai-microcontrollers-computation-graph/
1•hasheddan•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive

https://github.com/iosifache/annas-mcp
3•iosifache•22m ago•0 comments

A new open LLM built for the public good (by ETHZ/EPFL/CSCS)

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html
1•dbrgn•22m ago•0 comments

Chain-of-Thought Is Not Explainability

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2025.02v2
2•sonabinu•23m ago•0 comments

Nvidia-backed Perplexity launches AI-powered browser to take on Google Chrome

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/nvidia-backed-perplexity-launches-ai-powered-browser-take-google-chrome-2025-07-09/
2•gz5•24m ago•1 comments

TV episodes have become way too long

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/09/tv-episodes-have-become-way-too-long
2•vector_spaces•28m ago•0 comments

Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing "woke filters"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/grok-praises-hitler-gives-credit-to-musk-for-removing-woke-filters/
5•chmaynard•28m ago•0 comments

A universal interface connecting you to premier AI models

https://tenzorro.com/en/models
1•paulo20223•28m ago•0 comments

Reachy Mini

https://www.pollen-robotics.com/reachy-mini/
1•stuartmemo•29m ago•0 comments

Cacao agroforestry in Belize hits the sweet spot for people and nature

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/cacao-agroforestry-in-belize-hits-the-sweet-spot-for-people-and-nature/
1•PaulHoule•30m ago•0 comments

When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support? [pdf]

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3746174
1•thunderbong•32m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: New RevOps guy wants to switch us from M365 to GSuite+Slack

2•9dev•33m ago•0 comments

Practically-a-Book Review: Byrnes on Trance

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-byrnes
1•paulpauper•33m ago•0 comments

Some Recent Essays on Schooling

https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/paying-students-to-learn
1•paulpauper•34m ago•0 comments