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A friend of mine just told me that her packages could not be delivered because it seemed she did not reside at the address. After investigation, she found that someone glued another name tag over her name tag on her doorbell. The new name tag has the same name as the person that lived there before and has scratch marks as if someone failed to remove it, but it is still clearly readable. She already lives in this flat for years now.

I'm wondering if this is a new sophisticated post scam attempt.

Clarifications (specific situation in Germany):

  • Her original name tag was in the doorbell, the new one was printed out with a label printer and stuck on top. Her name tag was therefore still under the new tag.
  • This is an apartment complex with at least 10 tenants in a large city. It is not usual for mail carriers to ask if a name is not at the address on the parcel.
  • If the recipient is not at home, the driver usually puts a note in the letterbox and drops the parcel off at the nearest post office. If the recipient cannot be identified, it is customary to return the parcel to the sender.
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    I’m voting to close this question because it is not about personal finance. Seems like a physical security question.
    – littleadv
    Commented Dec 4 at 17:15
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    This sounds more like her name tag fell off, exposing the previous one, than like somebody applied a new one. And I agree, it is out of scope; not all scams are on topic here.
    – keshlam
    Commented Dec 5 at 5:45
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    This seems like a spurious excuse. There are plenty of reasons why the name of the recipient wouldn't be on the doorbell, starting with living with a person who has a different last name. If your friend really had this happen, your friend should just get the deliverer to deliver the package whatever is on the doorbell.
    – DJClayworth
    Commented Dec 5 at 19:52
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    This is a personal finance discussion, which means we often get into the topic of financial scams, but it isn't clear that this falls in that set. I'm not sure where a better place would be; it might not be on Stack Exchange. Some governments maintain lists of things to watch out for; it might be worth reading some of those pages to see if they mention this particular problem.
    – keshlam
    Commented Dec 5 at 20:28
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    I agree with @DJClayworth that the delivery service should be delivering to that person at that address, and if that name isn't on the mailbox they should knock and ask for that person. Some parcel services fail to do so even when you have paid for hand to hand delivery with signature, and since parcel services these days often transship on other services one bad actor can break things for everyone.
    – keshlam
    Commented Dec 5 at 20:30

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