Amazon has implemented a password system for RAM delivery. You're supposed to give a password to the deliverer before taking delivery of the RAM, and you're not supposed to send the password over the phone at all (although the Amazon delivery guy still called me and asked for it over the phone).

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Roast 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is quite common for all high value deliveries across all platforms in India.

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prodigycorp 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

can u provide some context? what is this trying to solve and how does it solve it? very curious.

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codeulike 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Its a way to make sure the delivery takes place. A code is sent to recipient and recipient only gives it to the delivery person once item is handed over. Delivery person cant mark item as 'done' without the code. I've seen Uber Eats do the same thing sometimes.

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apple4ever 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wow that's actually a really good idea to prevent delivery theft by the delivery person!

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stingraycharles 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What’s wrong with a signature?

	▲	supersparrow 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Signatures are completely pointless. Literally draw squiggles as anyone else can. Nobody ever checks or compares them to the original, how can they?
	▲	Ekaros 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Sometimes I wonder if true reason behind them is not any sort of verification but to maybe increase potential punishment if caught... So effectively nothing...
	▲	jacobwg 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It's to prevent theft by the delivery person or by the wrong recipient
	▲	pjc50 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Signatures are terrible, and especially it's hard to automatically confirm they're correct even if you have a sample on file.

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vee-kay 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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preisschild 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is normal for every item above ~100EUR delivered by Amazon here in Austria. Never had it happen that they asked for the code without showing me the package in-person first though.