Something similar happened to me. Someone sent me a very spendy Pentax lens which was delivered by FedEx when I wasn't at home. The package was just dropped at my door. This was on a day that a lot of maintenance people were working around my house - gardeners, utility company people, and roofers.
A few weeks later I found the box in a field alongside the house with all the paperwork but, of course, no lens. The guy who sent the lens had his copy of the shipping document which did not authorized the package to be left without obtaining a signature for it. Yet there was a signature release signed on the shipping bill with the box. Clearly someone from FedEx forged the signature release. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Bob Shell > Fedex can be really bad at times. The worst they ever did to me was to > leave a box with $ 15,000 worth of Rollei 6008 gear on my front porch > when I was on vacation. I had told them in writing to hold all > deliveries for that two week period. When I returned from vacation > there was nothing on the front porch, and I didn't know that the Rollei > distributor had even shipped me the stuff (loan for editorial review). > I only found out about it some months later when they asked when I was > planning on returning the equipment. Fedex claimed they had my > signature, and it was only after I proved that I was on the other side > of the USA at the time and brought a lawyer into the picture that they > backed down and admitted what had happened.
