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Strange parcels being delivered.

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Strangeparcels · 14/10/2022 18:44

Firstly, I've name changed for this, because I have mentioned it to several people in real life.
About a month ago, while I was out, my husband got a delivery of a box of 3200 paper towels for a paper towel dispenser. Unfortunately it was left on the doorstep, or he would have questioned it at the time. The address was ours, but said to Emergency Personnel. He looked up the sender to report it, but the seller went out of business 2 years ago.
An hour later, another much larger parcel arrived. Fortunately, this one required signing for and since it was also our address, but not for us, he refused it at the door. He did notice that this was from a different company, however.
We left the parcel unopened for several weeks (after having asked our neighbours if anyone was missing a big box of paper towels), just incase anyone contacted us about it.
Eventually, I opened it in case it actually contained a million pounds, but it was just paper towels.
It's been sitting on our landing ever since.
Unfortunately, yesterday another identical box of paper towels arrived - same closed down business address!
I have a horrible feeling that this is a monthly order that is just going to keep turning up, but there is no one to contact to stop it!

What do I do?????
I don't want thousands of paper towels 😭

OP posts:
Theskyisfullofbirds · 16/10/2022 23:32

Could it be an incorrect post code? When I fill in online forms they sometimes ask for my house number and postcode and the system looks up the rest of the address. If someone’s entered the wrong postcode and not checked the full address, could they just be being delivered to the wrong address? Hard to tell if you can’t contact t the company though.

Now awaiting a thread about missing boxes of paper towels complaining that the company says they’ve sent them but they’ve never arrived 🤣

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 17/10/2022 00:39

I can just imagine the response you would get if you phoned the police about this 🤣

Anon778833 · 17/10/2022 04:25

How strange! I hope you get to the bottom of it 👀

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