modern life

[firecat]

fun with corporations, part 235,234:

ups delivered to me (in california) a package from costco that was intended for someone in wisconsin. four pounds of unshelled peanuts. ups definitely thought it was for me because they sent me a text message about it.

i tried to report it to costco, but they have no email customer service, only phone and chat, but oddly enough, chat customer service is closed at 4:00am pdt.

(not looking for advice, just sharing a modern life story)

Comments

[silveradept]

Huh. That's the sort of thing where I expect the real order might have been someone testing for listening speakers like the xkcd comic, but for some reason, your address was the one on file.

[firecat]

Haha you mean XKCD 1807?

[silveradept]

Yes. Alexa, order two tons of creamed corn.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Wow. That's bizarre. How long do you wait before you decide to eat them? Do you even like peanuts?

[firecat]

This household loves peanuts but doesn't love shelling them. Maybe I can rent an elephant. But that brings its own disposal problems...

[chanter1944]

It wasn't mine! I'm in Wisconsin, but I don't need that many peanuts. :P

[firecat]

I'm looking at the house of the orderer/recipient on google maps and imagining them peeering out the window wondering where their peanuts went.

[alexcat]

One has to wonder - do they not have unshelled peanuts in Wisconsin?

It's fun sometimes to track mail -- and see it go across the country and back again!

[firecat]

It started out in Texas!

[keryx]

Do you by any chance have very precocious squirrels or crows in your neighborhood?

[firecat]

I don't know how precocious they are, but I certainly have them.