random parcels

[dynogrl]

Today I received 2 parcels in the mail.....identical parcels!

I ordered nothing but got these 2 little brown paper parcels from Singapore , both had nothing other than a small square of cardboard enclosed in them....randomly cut approx 2' square 😮

I think this is a mystery I may never solve 😐

[twinkles**stars]

Maybe try the Federal Police or Customs?

[dynogrl]

Everyone I have showed them to have been shocked at them, and all have said got to the police!

[twinkles**stars]

But the police will only act on an offence.....what offence as been committed?

[*crikey*mate*]

Maybe go to the Police Station in person and ask them to make a note of it - just so its on record somewhere official?

Being a missing person isn't a crime, but they still take note of that if someone reports it, so maybe they will take notice of this?

Would you get a different result from crime Stoppers?

Maybe ask them if it was possible some substance has been mailed on the cardboard and ask how you would detect that. (I'm thinking of how terrorists send anthrax powder in the mail LOL and poison people without knowing when they open it) (yes - clutching at straws, but raising the possibility of some hidden contaminant may raise an eyebrow somewhere?

At the very least, make sure you diarize this - recording every tiny detail - take photos of what you have, and save this thread too - it at least shows dates etc and your description of what happened if its ever needed.

Any info from the post office, get now, it may get lost in the system if it is a few months when you need the info.

I bet your name has just somehow gotten sold to some marketing/telemarketing company, and whilst you may have been meant to get one (even if it is a set up for some future scam for example) that the second one was an error - I bet the label machine just printed off two, or your name got on the list twice somehow and without checking they inadvertantly sent you two (you know - like in a mass mail out)

might even be worth asking the post office if they know of any similar packages having been delivered to other people.

[icyfroth]

But the police will only act on an offence.....what offence as been committed?

Police always urge the public to report suspicious occurences don't they?

You never know, those 2 pces of cardboard could've been the missing pieces of a code in an deal.

[dynogrl]

That's exactly what I was planning on doing this afternoon on my way home from work.  Going to drop into my local police station and show them the parcels....get an event number just to cover my bum :^O

It's just so suss!  No return address..... 

[twinkles**stars]

Maybe go to the Police Station in person and ask them to make a note of it - just so its on record somewhere official?

Seriously? A report will only be done if a crime has been committed, has been the information given to me. And as no crime has been commtitted because sending a piece of cardboard isn't a crime how can anything be reported offically?

Just saying.

I think it odd but odder things happen?

Your daughter signed at the post office as you had signed the back of the slip giving permission to do so? Then I'd be asking why one was in the letter box and the other identical one needed signature. Or were they slightly different?

[icyfroth]

Just to remind you of your siggie:

"it's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required"

[twinkles**stars]

and your point is icy?

[dynogrl]

the one my dd picked up from the PO had a customs sticker on it but didn't need to be signed for. When we got home we found the other one in the letterbox