I recently ordered something and had it ship through UPS. Once it had already shipped, I decided I want it shipped directly to my College Station address instead of my Houston address. I was not sure if this was possible, oo I was getting ready to go to the UPS store, show some ID and verify that it’s me who is changing the destination address…

But I decide to call them beforehand. A minute later, my local UPS location gives me 1800 number, and two minutes into that call, the customer rep asks me for my tracking number and the new destination address. Thats it… Wait, they didn’t even verify who I was.

Is it me who sees a huge security hole here. It seems anyone with a tracking number can re-route a order to any place they wish.

So that means one should not go through the trash at the UPS store and should not find receipts of recently shipped items, and should not follow their tracking to see if it’s still being shipped, and should not call them and reroute them to your neighbors house. It’s illegal and unethical to tamper with someone else’s shipment so you should never even think about this.