Intercepted

[pf9000]

Intercepted. What does that mean? The package was sent to ME and now the tracking says the following:

Alert Intercepted

This item has been intercepted on March 3, 2023 at 7:53 am in --- ME --- and redirected as requested by the sender.

I never made any such request.

[conservitvs]

Presuming you are the buyer (parcel sent to you) and then this makes the sender the seller.

If these statements are true, then "intercepted" means the seller has paid to reroute the parcel back to themselves.

[ebooksdiva]

Intercepted means the package being shipped was intercepted by the sender who sent the package and it will be returned to the sender. Are you the recipient or the sender? 

[pf9000]

I am the Seller, and did NOT make that request.

[ebooksdiva]

The buyer may have intercepted it possibly because they gave you a wrong address. If that is the case they may have lost MBG protection. 
Call the company you used for shipping and find out what’s up with that and contact the buyer as well. 

[luckythewinner]

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@pf9000 wrote:

I am the Seller, and did NOT make that request.

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It will be a scary new world if we discover that a buyer can use the tracking number to file an intercept on a package being sent to him.

[slati_2013]

What shipping service did you use? 

[retro_entertainment_collectibles]

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@pf9000 wrote:

I am the Seller, and did NOT make that request.

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Wonder if you're about to be scammed, someone assumes you're identity with a call to the PO has it re-routed and you're looking at a INR.  It's a he said/she said isn't it?  Buyer says "I never called."

One would assume (there's that word again!) the PO ask for some sort of qualifying information as to identity of the caller but do they?

[retro_entertainment_collectibles]

I can tell ya' I had a package sent to me and *I* had it sent to the wrong address.  So I called my local PO and they held it there for me to pick up, no qualifying data.  When I got to the PO they wanted ID and also brought a copy of the listing purchase info from eBay, so drivers license and here's you're package.

[mtgraves7984]

Out of curiosity, was it for your 'Learning Center'? Did you use Parcel Select (like it's listed), or Media Mail (accidently)?

[toysaver · Accepted solution]

https://www.usps.com/manage/package-intercept.htm

[pf9000]

According to that link it says that it lets the sender or recipient stop delivery or redirect a package. I didn't know that it was possible for a recipient to do that.

[toysaver]

"Your shipment will be redirected to the original sender or held at the local Post Office for pickup."  

Sounds like the buyer can only elect to pick it up not change the address?  That is my interpretation, but I am frequently wrong.