Who sent me this Evri parcel?

[mysteriousparcel]

So yesterday my neighbour came over and gave me an Evri parcel. I tracked it and it already arrived on December 15th, but landed in our shared passageway, so nobody saw it.

Inside were those 2 tubes from mama mio (pic attached). They are a skin care routine to avoid stretch marks in pregnant women 😂

Fyi, I have given birth on December 20th.

I have a very unusual, foreign surname. My surname was misspelled on the parcel, the rest was correct.

I know none of my friends would send me a present like this and they also wouldn't gift me a fairly inexpensive product like this (usually put more thoughts into presents). They also know how to spell my surname. I know it was nobody from my family.

Of course it doesn't have the sender name and address on the parcel.

The evri label has two bar codes on it (or are their qr codes?)

When I scanned the code at the top with my phone, there were 2 addresses on the breakdown on my phone. One of them was my address in the West Midlands, the other one was an address with house number and street name in a town in Lincolnshire. I googled it and I don't know anyone who lives there.

Does anyone know if that 2nd address is likely the address of the sender? Or is the 2nd address something else?

It's not an office building, it's a private house in a residential street.

Thanks xx

Could it be a marketing trial ?

OP, your comment about friends not gifting you a “fairly inexpensive” present is rather weird. Some of the best beauty and make-up products are relatively inexpensive- the monetary value may not be important, but rather the thought behind the gift. So I’d be careful how you phrase that when you’re talking to friends about this “mysterious parcel”.
Spelling a name incorrectly is also super easy and takes a second.
It’s obviously somebody you know, and most likely a friend who thought they were sending you a useful, thoughtful gift.

Have you entered any competitions?

I am not saying that something inexpensive can't be good, I am just saying that usually my friends gift differently.

It wasn't just a small spelling mistake - basically completely misspelled.

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Maybe a brushing scam?

Could be - I ordered a breast pump from a different company. Maybe they passed on my details?

I would think it's a marketing ploy, and the tubes of cream are free samples. This would make the most sense as you have recently had a baby.

Either that or a thoughtful small gift from a friend?

Maybe they've put the wrong house number, and the name is a coincidence, especially with it being very misspelled. Or maybe a friend of a friend who has had the cream unused and decided to regift?

To all of those saying sample, I doubt this as op received 2 large tubes. They aren't sample size and there's two as well.

Did you give your details to a Bounty rep?

Have you bought anything from Ebay or Etsy etc? I bought quite a niche item from someone on ebay, received it and a few weeks later I received another one from them. There was a note that said they hadn't sold it so I may as well have it.

Actually, have you ordered anything on Vinted in the last few months? Apparently it sometimes happens that Evri parcels get mixed up, and someone will put a new label on the wrong parcel and it will go to the wrong person. It happens more with Inpost but apparently can happen with Evri too. I've read stories that people receive these things when they ordered something else months ago.

It was still noticeably my name. Hard to describe it without writing my actual name and the misspelled version on here.

The way it was spelled resembles the way my name is sometimes pronounced by people who don't know how to pronounce it - I had my name shouted out like that in hospital and GP waiting rooms before when it was my turn.

I haven't ordered anything from Vinted, Ebay or Etsy for a long time. I also haven't given my details to a bounty rep.

@mysteriousparcel it sounds like an acquaintance tbh, or probably a friend of a friend who you've never met. A friend telling a friend "oh my friend mysterious is pregnant." Reply "Oh really, I have two huge tubes of cream I never used during my pregnancy." A quick writing down/typing in phone of name and address (misspelling name). Then by the time they were sent you had your baby.

A few years ago I received, to my work address, 4 bottles of Malibu suntan lotion! Not tracked, no sender details, no message or delivery slip. I’d never ordered any lotion before to be delivered. I also have an unusual surname which is misspelled on almost every occasion. Very odd and never figured it out!

I'd go with the details being passed after ordering the breast pump