The mystery of Amber McIntyre
Mar. 28th, 2024 09:23 pmSo we received some mysterious packages recently. They weren't misdelivered -- they were all very clearly addressed to our apartment in our building. But the person they were addressed to was one "Amber McIntyre".
None of us knows an Amber McIntyre, or has any idea who this might be. A previous resident? It's not like we've got other mail for her in the past, like we have for other people who've moved out.
Maybe Amber lives in a different apartment? We tried just leaving the package out in the stairway in case it was really for a different apartment, but nobody claimed it.
Well, two of the packages were delivered via USPS, so I eventually just returned those to sender. We'll never know what was in them. But the third was from Amazon, and after talking to them they said we could just keep it[0].
So, we opened it! It had four glass bottles, with cork tops and glass straws (the cork tops have a thing for sticking the glass straws through). Huh!
-Harry
[0]You might say here, of course you could, that's the law in the US! But because the package was addressed to Amber McIntyre rather than to me, I wasn't sure whether the law covered that case, and I couldn't find any good sources on this that both seemed trustworthy and unambiguously did cover it. I certainly wasn't about to hire a lawyer to resolve the question!
None of us knows an Amber McIntyre, or has any idea who this might be. A previous resident? It's not like we've got other mail for her in the past, like we have for other people who've moved out.
Maybe Amber lives in a different apartment? We tried just leaving the package out in the stairway in case it was really for a different apartment, but nobody claimed it.
Well, two of the packages were delivered via USPS, so I eventually just returned those to sender. We'll never know what was in them. But the third was from Amazon, and after talking to them they said we could just keep it[0].
So, we opened it! It had four glass bottles, with cork tops and glass straws (the cork tops have a thing for sticking the glass straws through). Huh!
-Harry
[0]You might say here, of course you could, that's the law in the US! But because the package was addressed to Amber McIntyre rather than to me, I wasn't sure whether the law covered that case, and I couldn't find any good sources on this that both seemed trustworthy and unambiguously did cover it. I certainly wasn't about to hire a lawyer to resolve the question!
