PS5's being stolen by FedEx ground?

Even if the boxes are unmarked and with added dead weight, if you're a driver (for any delivery company) and you suddenly have all these exact same boxes in your truck, with the same weight and size, all being delivered the same day as a major console release...well, you don't really need to open it to know what is in it, you can make an educated guess as to what's inside.

FedEx Ground/Home though are all privately contracted drivers vs FedEx Express which is all corporate and employed directly by FedEx, so they're held to a different standard. I had a problem earlier this year where a single FedEx Ground driver kept swapping packages with my neighbor several houses down the street. Both of us were confused; our addresses were clearly visible from the street, none of the packages were delivered late at night (so no excuses he couldn't see the address in the dark), and neither of us had issues with any other delivery company (including FedEx Express), only FedEx Ground/Home. Me and my neighbor both complained to FedEx; they just assumed it was a mistake, but it kept happening over and over. It stopped eventually and I don't know what happened to the driver; the only theory we could come up with was maybe he was dyslexic (the house numbers were the same except for 1 digit) and wasn't trying to do it intentionally.

Anyway, my PS5 and Xbox Series X were both misdelivered from Amazon. The Xbox was delivered to an entirely different person and address not even close; complained to Amazon but luckily the person was nice enough to drop it off without opening it. Told him he should be the delivery driver since he obviously didn't have issues finding my address.


Hoping to not have the same thing happen with my PS5, I stayed and watched with my Ring camera and tracking waiting for the truck to arrive on delivery day. I saw the driver on camera, stop at my neighbor's house, and could even hear him from my window climbing up my neighbor's steps, and drop off my PS5 and then mark it as delivered, and then drive past my house. WTF. I ran over to my neighbor to double-check it wasn't a package for him; sure enough it was my PS5 and he handed it to me.


So, I don't really know what's going on. Maybe the drivers are fatigued with all the console packages and don't care to check the address? Everything else was delivered correctly and with no problems throughout the entire year and even after the consoles were delivered; it was only the consoles that had a problem.

There are probably bad apples possibly stealing them, like with any company, but so far they've just been bizarre mistakes and I really can't figure out why.