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She has plenty of documented evidence of UPS dumping trash on her doorstep, and refusing to stop when she expressly directs them to.

Sounds like a great court case to me.

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For the unsigned CoD sure, but otherwise UPS has no way of knowing what packages are legitimate and which are not. Amazon is more culpable because they can track the return packing slips back to a seller, and have been notified of the issue, but apparently haven't resolved it. She could use discovery to demand that Amazon provide the seller's information, but chances are they are overseas and suing would be useless. So Amazon is really the party she needs to focus on here.

Sure they do. She told them to stop delivering packages. Period. None of them are legit after that.

I wonder what the mechanism is for that, it seems obvious that you do NOT have to accept any and all packages from any company (maybe you do from the postal service/royal mail?) but how exactly do you formally tell them to bugger off?

And is it a UPS yes/no or do they get more fine grained?

In Ontario we can post a sign that enables a trespassing law which is quite empowering to the property owner(see legal language for other options).

Walmart uses(or used) the same law to enable their security guards to restrain people inside of their store.

You can possibly get them to stop delivering to that address, but then you wouldn't be able to get any packages you actually wanted.

I'd imagine that she knows that and isn't making her request lightly.

> but otherwise UPS has no way of knowing what packages are legitimate and which are not

She very clearly has a sign on her door that says "UPS - DO NOT DELIVER ANY PACKAGES HERE".

Surely at this point anything they leave on her doorstep is just them dumping trash.

A court case may not even be needed, sometimes a simple letter from a lawyer is all that it takes.

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