Can you solve this small mystery?
A few days ago I received a small package, no more than two or three inches in any dimension. Although the package’s address was mine, the name on it was not. I looked up the name in the phone book, but there was no listing. I figured I would take the package to the post office this Saturday and let them try to figure it out.
Yesterday there was a note in my door from the woman whose name was on the package. Aha! I figured it out. She was probably a known felon who was aware that the police were monitoring her mail in search of a vial of poison?, a stolen diamond? To get around them, she sent the package to my address with an assumed name.
That may still be the case, but the explanation on the note and what I later found out when I met the woman was much more plausible if very much less dramatic.
Why was the address wrong? How did the woman find out? Why was the phone number unlisted (she did not request that) What the heck was in the package? As a hint, I was mistaken in assuming that the package was sent by mail.
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I think you should inform local police about it..you don’t know what was there inside the package..can contain anything like drugs / narcotics etc.. you never know..it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Was her address a two part name like 100 Calm Lake Lane and you live at 100 Calm Lane? And she has an unlisted number?
or…
There was a mailing list and the addresses were shifted. She got someone else’s package and you got hers?
It was a gift (or equivalent) for someone else in her own household, which she wanted to be a surprise, but she wanted to preclude questions from anyone else who might see the thing in the mail before she could squirrel it away somewhere.
The surprising thing to me is that she had not contacted you in advance of the mailing, so that you would be sure not to do what you almost did.
She’s in the process of moving, needed to have a thing shipped by UPS, they don’t do mail forwarding, and she wanted to make sure the thing wasn’t rejected by being taken to an empty house?
Not very sensible, if you ask me… But feasible.
When she typed the address on line, she transposed her street number. When the package did not arrive as expected, she looked at her electronic receipt, realized her mistake, and went over to your house to leave her note.
She clearly is soviet spy.
She works for the NSA and was doing surveillance on your house in preparation for the black-mask raid that will be taking place. The whole order/package thing was just a ruse to check you out and see where an how you lived.
You can expect that your home will be raided by several government agencies within the next 48 hours. Good luck. Call us from Guantanamo.
She miss-typed the zip code?
Could it be that the thing mailed to her wasn’t exactly illegal, but for some reason she didn’t want anyone she knows to know about the mailing so she had to use your address? It’s very similar to a future plan of mine, except that I will inform the owner of the address first.
@zenvelo has it about right. The woman has just moved to the neighborhood, accounting for the unlisted phone number and perhaps helping to explain why she gave the wrong house number to Federal Express. She either noticed the error on the receipt as @zenvelo suggests or contacted Fed Ex and was told the address by them. The package contained a pair of contact lenses, not as valuable as heroin, but expensive enough to be upset about not receiving. When I met her, she was wearing eyeglasses and was no doubt eager to replace them with the contacts.
I would go with the @zenvelo / @LostInParadise theory of a typo when the package was originally shipped, which was not noticed until the receipt was examined, or when the package was tracked.
Nice! And now you both have at least one friend in the neighborhood.
Was she homeless, and without transportation? Did she have her medication delivered to your mailbox from a local ( relatively) pharmacy. Duh! late to the game.
Oh. Well, I was going to say that she needed temporary safekeeping for something she couldn’t be caught with, maybe drugs. She reused an already stamped and canceled padded mailer, replacing the label with her name and your address, and dropped it in your mailbox herself. Maybe she knew you by sight and figured you would at least be approachable subsequently.
Then she concocted a story to explain the mistake when she came to collect it from you. By that time, whoever was looking for the item was already gone, and she was free and clear.
OMG THERE WAS A PACKAGE AND THE POLICE MIGHT NOT KNOW WHO GOT IT, WHO SENT IT, OR WHAT WAS IN IT! IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANYTHING! EVEN KRYPTONITE! CALL HOMELAND SECURITY IMMEDIATELY!
Or, someone mailed a friendship pillow to a friend, but mis-wrote the address slightly. The friend was looking forward to getting their friendship pillow, so they asked the friend who sent it what address they used, and spotted the typo. They then went to the (your) wrong address and asked you for it. Now she has her friendship pillow from her friend. Yay!
BUT NO! ANY ATTEMPT TO PREVENT BIG BROTHER FROM KNOWING EVERY MOVEMENT OF EVERY OBJECT MUST BE PREVENTED!
;-)
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