Rovel T. Caberos of Magic 100.3 FM, KWAW, said he received a notice that the two netbooks he ordered from B&H, an online store, were shipped on Nov. 2, but the local post office handed him a yellow card only yesterday.
He said it takes only 7-10 days at the most for B&H packages to arrive here.
Caberos said when he opened his post office box, he found that the package from B&H was tampered.
“I had been ordering various items from B&H and received them all without hitches, but this particular package was obviously opened,” he said.
The usual B&H brown tape was already replaced with local packing tape, he said.
He opened the package in front of a post office staffer and discovered that the netbooks were missing.
“The box contained only the empty boxes, the battery and the manuals. The netbook computers and the chargers were gone,” Caberos said.
When he asked the post office staffer about it, he was told that they would keep the box and instructed Caberos to file a claim with B&H.
Caberos said that he was not the first victim of tampered boxes at the post office.
He said one individual lost a Sony Viao laptop sent through the U.S. Postal Service from B&H just recently.
“I’m very upset. I paid $830 for the computers and whoever stole the items must have known that boxes from B&H contain expensive gadgets and electronics,” he said.
According to Caberos, such thievery should not be tolerated.
“It happened to me, it happened to somebody else before and it can happen again to anyone who orders items online,” he said.
