Receptionist opened my Glock .22 kit at work today!

[TechBrute]

My company opens all packages and letters. They also occasionally open outgoing mail. It is a loss prevention issue. I'm not sure what the legality of the incoming mail is, but the outgoing mail is not part of the USPS system at that point.

I have, at some points, had mail delivered to work. The last time was a gift from my parents to my wife and I wanted to surprise her with it so I didn't have it sent to the house. If I tell the receptionist that I'm expecting it, it comes straight to my desk, conveniently opened for me. If you're concerned with privacy, why send it to your work?

I sent a rifle back to Remington from our mailroom. Aside from the fact that everyone had to see it and ogle, it was no big deal. All our employees go through background checks. While not perfect, it gives me some indication that it will be ok.

If I'm concerned with privacy, I send it to the house. For convenience, it comes to work. The two do not go together in my company.

 

[twoblink]

It's a great conversation piece at least..

"So, you a 9mm type of girl, or a .45?"

"You like my glock, or you like 1911's?"



Stupidity is not copyrighted..

 

[Min]

It's really no big deal.

So, they know I own a Glock now. At least, it's not a Bryco.





Plus, I'm getting the girl fired tomorrow.

 

[Gameface]

If a package has USPS postage on it and an address then it is not legal for ANYONE to open it unless they are on the "to" portion of the address. This goes for the wife at home or the receptionist at work. All US mail is confidential.

Gameface

 

[Don Gwinn]

Hey, Beren, I wouldn't tell my boss I was getting shipments of "Special K" at work!

I don't make jokes about getting packages of heroin, either.

 

[Wildalaska]

I get guns aoll the time at work and no one cares

WildselectfireonestooAlaska

 

[rayra]

Anyone caught in the double-bind of packages lingering on their porch / delivered-lost to neighbors apartment and an unfriendly workplace should consider a private-company P.O. Box near their work.

Strict-adherence to the postal law, and corporate policies are an issue I dont care to play Don Quixote about.

 

[Majic]

I always had personal items shipped to my home address because it was meant for the home. Business items came to the job.

 

[0luke1]

One of the guys I shoot high power with has his secretary work his Dillon to load 223 when it's slow. (He owns his own business).

 

[Ransom]

I get books and DVDs shipped to my work simply because we have a front desk and it will always be recieved and signed for and I dont have to fight lines and crap as UPS/USPS. But I'd never order gun related things. I wont even have grips or a holster sent there.

 

[Byron Quick]

Tell me something: None of you people have friends or relatives who are usually at home during the day? Just curious, really. I trust several people to receive such shipments for me who are usually at home.

 

[Ukraine Train]

My company has a big stink if you get anything personal shipped here. My boss got reamed out once because he had a gift for his wife shipped here so she wouldn't know about it. They claim it wastes time because the mail room spends time processing the package.

 

[71Commander]

I work in the receiving dept. at a large company and it is policy to open all incoming packages. I have to pull the packing slip and check it with the material. This is how the material gets paid for.

No personal incoming mail.

 

[Bravo11]

What is the deal with companies having the receptionist open all the mail.
They used to do it here. Letters, junk mail, and packages. It has stopped in the past year or two, no one said why they stopped. I never did understand the reasoning behind opening all the mail.

 

[halvey]

My company opens EVERYTHING. But I work for one of those big evil corporations that employ thousands of people.

 

[Amish_Bill]

Mine doesn't bother opening most things. They DO x-ray them though....

 

[Zundfolge]

Reason #33498 I'm glad I work for a small company (only about 10 employees here ... including the owner). If I never work for a large company again I'll die happy.

The guy who works the front counter here is a big gun nut too ... but everyone here knows we're gun nuts and nobody cares (hell ... boss knows I carry and he's okay with it).

My previous job was at a mid size company (a little over 600 employees) and I had gun stuff shipped there (hell, I took off at lunch one day to pick up a pistol at my FFL and brought it back to the office to sit in my drawer for the rest of the day). However they have been bought out by a bigger company (who shrank them down to about 25 employees ... my job was safe but I just couldn't stand the new ownership so I left) and I'd never consider having gun stuff shipped there if I stayed now.

honestly, some of the intrusions into your personal life you have to put up with to work at large companies just drives me nuts.

 

[ckyllo]

I work in a recieving area and we open everything, pull pack slip, record the tracking number and scan slip into computer with a reciept and have it signed on delivery. It saves BIG on the calls you signed for a box 3 months ago where is it? I can say where it went, who signed for it, and if they are not the person who got it I can print out the pack slip and show them why it went where it did. oh yeah we are to inspect the packages for letter bombs / anthrax before opening them they would hate to have one of us get blown up. so it would be not the greatest idea for me to have somthing delivered to work.

 

[Poodleshooter]

Partial list of things I've received at my workplace so far:
CMP Garand
8# keg of powder
reloading gear
cases of ammo
blackpowder rifle barrel

People here only open things with their names on them. I get called to the dock for my stuff,which then goes right to the car. Not that it matters anyway. I helped a co-worker clean his grandfather's shotgun over lunch one day...on the floor of the loading dock.
Packages that went to my old residence sat outside my door (not good).

 

[Min]

I told the receptionist today another package was coming - she should expect it any day now.

Oh great, she said. (She's just a college student working during the summer).



I didn't tell her it was a spare mag for the Glock kit.