Fake parcel UPDATED

[deborahbruce]

Original post deleted.

I totally misinterpreted this. Sorry for alarm or confusion. No criminal intent, just misunderstanding on my part. Apologies for making a drama out of it.

[snoopy17]

This sounds creepy as hell..

You should always rip your name and address off of parcels. Too many people searching bins.

[Lynne]

Perhaps someone else had rummaged through your bin, thrown the box away and this man had merely found it and returned it

Or perhaps he was using it as an excuse for knocking on your door to see if there was anyone at home

[gerry]

There are fake parcel deliveries in the news, phone contracts especially are the main target. Please do not accept a package and sign for it if you are not expecting anything. Phones are delivered, then picked up again, but by that time it?s too late because you have signed for the package. Read on BBC news.

[gerry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49450485

[KidKruger]

If that was the case he wouldn?t be saying here ?taken in? a parcel for the OP.

Lynne Wrote:

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> Perhaps someone else had rummaged through your

> bin, thrown the box away and this man had merely

> found it and returned it

> Or perhaps he was using it as an excuse for

> knocking on your door to see if there was anyone

> at home

[spark67]

The phone scam happened to my work mate, they had a new 02 phone delivered in their name, then a man claiming to be a courier knocked and said it had been delivered by mistake ( how that could be if their name and address was on the package) .. my friends husband denied they had a package much ti the guys confusion and took it back to an 02 shop.

Not sure what is going on here with this one though... I'd say a cack handed attempt to see who lived there, creepy.

[Sue]

deborahbruce Wrote:

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> Original post deleted.

>

> I totally misinterpreted this. Sorry for alarm or

> confusion. No criminal intent, just

> misunderstanding on my part. Apologies for making

> a drama out of it.

Just quoting the above so that it's at the end of the thread rather than the beginning.

But also wondering what the explanation was???

[intexasatthe moment]

Well I think it's up to us to try and guess ,I'll start

delivery of hot air from the EDF

teenage offspring ordering a suprise gift for OP ,whipped it out of box before the game given away

[deborahbruce]

Good guesses but not so exciting. The guy found the parcel/empty box in the gutter outside his house. He worried that it had fallen from delivery van whereas in fact it must have fallen from bin lorry. So the man kindly delivered it back to my house, he just didn't hang around to explain fully. I jumped to a negative explanation when I couldn't understand how my recycled box had been redelivered.

[Lynne]

So I was almst right, kidkruger