Watch: driver claims he has delivered X-box. What really happened?

CCTV has captured one delivery driver's dastardly plan to steal an X-box. Paul Kerswill, a 44-year-old father of two from Hull, had snapped up a Black Friday bargain X-box for his 13-year-old son Kurt, on Amazon. The delivery driver arrived to drop it off, but what happened next was a real shock.

The family returned home, and found a note on the doormat saying that the driver had attempted to deliver it, and because they were out he had left it in the wheelie bin. They checked the bin and found nothing there. That's when they checked the CCTV footage.



It shows the driver arrive, walk to the letterbox empty-handed, put the card through the door, and leave in quite a rush. There was no X-box in his hands, and nothing was ever left in the wheelie bin.
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Amazon told the Daily Mail that the driver had been suspended while they investigated. However, that's no use to Paul, who told the Sun: "I was a bit gutted because I tried to keep it secret from Kurt because I was getting it for him for Christmas. It's annoying and a bit of a shame because it's ruined the surprise of him getting an Xbox."

Driver shockers

It's not the first time a delivery driver has hit the headlines for a shocking approach. We reported last month on the Amazon deliver driver who was caught on CCTV arriving at a property with two packages in his hands. He spotted a third parcel had already been left on the doorstep by another delivery driver, so picked that up and left with all three.

Back in September a driver was caught on CCTV hurling a parcel over a customer's gate, but one of the weirdest examples happened back in the summer, when one man in Hove, East Sussex, arrived home from work to discover a card telling him that he'd missed a delivery. In the section explaining where the parcel had been left it read: "Stuck on roof - sorry!" Looking up, Ward saw the package wedged in a gutter 20 feet up.