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They Steal Your Cash

Sometimes, instead of stealing goods, deliverymen attempt to steal cash. This is easiest to do if the person making the cash payment for the delivery and the person who receives the goods are not in direct contact. Store managers who are in frequent contact with same deliveryman may trust him to take the invoice to the cashier to get paid for the delivery.

However, once the invoice is in the hand of the deliveryman, he can alter it, and get more cash than the merchandise is worth, by, for example, adding new products that were never delivered, and changing quantities of delivered goods, price or final total. In the end, the deliveryman pockets the difference of what should have been paid and what was paid.

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