Most people have received shipments sent to them for different reasons be it personal or for business purposes. A very small percentage of these people have received a package that was sent COD. If you have not made previous arrangements to pay for this delivery and a San Francisco courier service attempts to deliver a COD package, you are required to pay for this delivery when it dropped off. The meaning of COD is either 'Cash on Delivery' or sometimes 'Collect on Delivery'. This can be beneficial to either the shipper or the person receiving the shipment. Shippers will avoid paying the delivery charges up front and billing back. The benefit for the person receiving the package could be that they will not have to prepay for the delivery before they receive it. Since most people have not experienced a COD shipment they are not familiar with the process. Some questions will come up such as if it is possible to refuse a COD shipment.
According to the law, you have every right to refuse a COD shipment. If you did not have this right, companies all over could send you their wares, without it being ordered, and require you to pay for the shipping of the product due to the policy of the company to ship COD. It is very important that you understand that if you receive a package that you do not know where it came from or did not request it; you most definitely should refuse the COD shipment. Some companies will try to make money off of illegal COD programs, and this policy will deter these scams from happening. For this reason alone, sending a package via COD delivery makes it one of the safest ways to ship an item.
Trust can be built between the consumer and the company sending an item COD. It will demonstrate trust that the customer will pay for the package at the time of delivery. Now the buyer will not have to provide confidential information such as credit card numbers that may or may not be secured. It will also insure that you have received what you paid for; as you will have it delivered before it is paid for.
You will need to talk to your California courier service to see if they participate in COD shipments for delivery and to discuss how those shipments are handled.
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