quade 3 #1 February 9, 2009 What is the strangest thing that has ever accidentally been delivered to your?quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 35 #2 February 9, 2009 I got a catalog for male porn that was addressed to my neighbor. I didn't know he was gay, it was quite a surprise! She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TrophyHusband 0 #3 February 9, 2009 my mother in law tried to send me some food storage containers, but the company accidentally send me a small stainless steel can with a screen to set on top of it and then a lid. i had to look it up to see what it was for. its for pourng bacon grease and other cooking grease in and separating the solid chunks from it. its great for when i cook wild game where i'm going to make gravy from what's let in the pan. i usually have to cook it in 2 or 3 batches, but now i can scrape all of the good bits off between batches so they don't burn. "Your scrotum is quite nice" - Skymama www.kjandmegan.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Misternatural 0 #4 February 9, 2009 Bills with my name on the envelope....I just send them back unopened. Beware of the collateralizing and monetization of your desires. D S #3.1415 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #5 February 9, 2009 Just a couple of weeks ago I got a package in my mailbox, from Norway, addressed to somebody who lives 36 miles away. I do not know how the USPS fucked that up as the only thing similar in my address and the other were the mailbox number (mine being 2368 and the other being 2386), and nothing else was close. I thought they were supposed to sort by zip code first. Even the name was Norse, nothing like mine. Rather than drop it off at the local post office, and I needed to get out of the house, I hand-delivered it using my new GPS tool. "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #6 February 9, 2009 Quote I got a catalog for male porn that was addressed to my neighbor. I didn't know he was gay, it was quite a surprise! Yikes! So, how did you handle that? Did you hand-deliver it to the neighbor, thereby embarrassing him by letting him know that you now know he's gay? Did you just throw it away to avoid embarrassing him, but denying him his catalog? Or send it back through the mailman for re-delivery? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 35 #7 February 9, 2009 Quote Yikes! So, how did you handle that? Did you hand-deliver it to the neighbor, thereby embarrassing him by letting him know that you now know he's gay? Did you just throw it away to avoid embarrassing him, but denying him his catalog? Or send it back through the mailman for re-delivery? It was quite awhile ago, so I actually can't remember. I was a little more reserved back then, so I probably threw it away. Now, I'd probably run over waving it in the air saying, "heeey, I got your mail. The guy on page 2 is hot!" She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
d_squared431 0 #8 February 9, 2009 Quote Quote Yikes! So, how did you handle that? Did you hand-deliver it to the neighbor, thereby embarrassing him by letting him know that you now know he's gay? Did you just throw it away to avoid embarrassing him, but denying him his catalog? Or send it back through the mailman for re-delivery? It was quite awhile ago, so I actually can't remember. I was a little more reserved back then, so I probably threw it away. Now, I'd probably run over waving it in the air saying, "heeey, I got your mail. The guy on page 2 is hot!" TPM Sister#130ONTIG#1 I love vodka.I love vodka cause it rhymes with Tuaca~LisaH You having a clean thought is like billyvance having a clean post.iluvtofly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #9 February 9, 2009 Last spring I talked to a fisherman from Chaisson, New Brunswick who got a parachute addressed to Edmonton. What's 4500km between neighbours? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 0 #10 February 9, 2009 Quote Quote I got a catalog for male porn that was addressed to my neighbor. I didn't know he was gay, it was quite a surprise! Yikes! So, how did you handle that? Did you hand-deliver it to the neighbor, thereby embarrassing him by letting him know that you now know he's gay? Did you just throw it away to avoid embarrassing him, but denying him his catalog? Or send it back through the mailman for re-delivery? We occasionally get mail addressed to the nice folks next door. I just walk over & put it in their curbside mailbox. Unless they happen to be looking out their window at that moment, I doubt they're even aware of it. I suppose that would qualify as "none of the above". Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tigra 0 #11 February 9, 2009 I once received a box of nice clothes from a store/ chain that I do shop at- really nice, my style and my size even but I knew I didn't order them. It was probably at least $500.00 worth of clothes. Part of me wondered if my shopping had gotten so out of control that the store was now sending me thank you gifts! I called the number on the receipt that came inside the box and they said "ooops!" and sent FedEx to my house to pick the box up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GARYC24 3 #12 February 9, 2009 A company I worked for years ago in the warranty service dept. We received a knee for someone's knee replacement. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nerdgirl 0 #13 February 9, 2009 I’ve never gotten anything that interesting that I could tell – I usually just put mis-delivered items in the outgoing mail slot. The most ‘interesting’ (in ways that interest me )that I’m aware of was Mr. William Krar’s intended package to Mr. Edward Feltus. Instead of being delivered to Feltus’ New Jersey address, it was delivered to a Staten Island, NY address. The folks opened the package and found a variety forged UN, DIA, DoD ID badges (e.g., “PNT” and “NCR (A)”); concealed weapons permits; driver’s licenses, etc. all with the same picture but different names and addresses. Krar eventually pled guilty to building and possessing chemical weapons and was sentenced to 11y/3months in federal prison. It was all because a package was delivered to the wrong address and somebody opened it. /Marg Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters. Tibetan Buddhist saying Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 3 #14 February 9, 2009 Ok, so this stuff definitely happens and as a plot device in a story it's completely plausible then. Examples; Illegal animal trade http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/leopard_skin.html Medical records as scrap paper http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695260327,00.html Nuclear triggers instead of batteries http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/24/national/main4476690.shtmlquade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nerdgirl 0 #15 February 9, 2009 QuoteOk, so this stuff definitely happens and as a plot device in a story it's completely plausible then. Examples; Nuclear triggers instead of batteries http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/24/national/main4476690.shtml Yes, altho’ the last ones (in the real world) weren’t ‘nuclear triggers’; they were nose-cone fuses for Minuteman III ICBMs (that can carry nuclear warheads). /Marg Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters. Tibetan Buddhist saying Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 3 #16 February 9, 2009 QuoteYes, altho’ the last ones (in the real world) weren’t ‘nuclear triggers’; they were nose-cone fuses for Minuteman III ICBMs (that can carry nuclear warheads). /Marg From the article; Quote Pentagon reviews of the shipping incident revealed that the fuses were sent to Taiwan rather than the helicopter batteries that had been ordered. Ok, so I said trigger rather than fuse . . .quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #17 February 9, 2009 Doesn't quite fit your criteria, but I did once order a book from the States to be delivered to my office in the UK. It didn't appear for literally 6 months, and when it did somebody had stamped Missent to Luxembourg (or some such place) on the packaging. Now I doubt that Luxembourg's mail workers have any such stamp to hand, but I bet the UK Royal Mail does. 'Eddie, I just found this parcel down the back of the sorting shelves. Been there for months by the look of it.' 'Oops, well never mind. Use the Missent to Luxembourg stamp and send it on.' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tigra 0 #18 February 9, 2009 That reminds me of something I saw on Saturday Night Live years ago. One of their fake commercials?? An overnight shipping company was promising to take the blame and "distressing" packages to make them look like they had been lost or mishandled instead of just sent late. As dependent as I am on overnight delivery services here at work, I thought it was hilarious! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1969912 0 #19 February 9, 2009 When I bought my first race car, I ordered a helmet, new six-point harness, double layer Nomex suit, gloves, shoes, etc. from a single vendor. A week or so later I get a phone call from a local dentist saying my stuff was delivered to him in error. Turns out he's a regular custoomer of that vendor because he does a historical Mexican rally race every year in a Porsche 356. So I go to his office to pick up my stuff, and we start talking abouit Porsche's, and I tell him about mine... Next thing, he tosses me the keys to his ~1998 Turbo and says "Take 'er for a run.." Uh, OK. When I got back he asked if I went over 150 (I doubt I even hit 80 in HIS car). I said no, and he said "man, you shoulda jumped on it". I almost asked for the keys again "Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ." -NickDG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
