u/Mammoth-Analyst4858

I ordered two rather expensive designer shirts from Japan to be shipped to the states via DHL. They were delivered yesterday, but I was on a trip and retuning today. Upon arriving back at my home, I quickly realized that the packages were not there. We live in a safe neighborhood and package theft is not common, so my immediate inclination was that DHL left the packages at the wrong address.

This was confirmed when I checked the delivery email and saw a photo of the packages in front of my neighbor’s gate. I don’t know these neighbors well. They are three houses down and we’ve never really gotten to know each other. After seeing the picture, I walked over to their house to see if my packages were still in front of their house. No dice. I looked around but didn’t see them, so I rang the bell. No answer.

The trash bin was on the street and the lid was left open….. Lo and behold, there are my two packages, boxes fully opened and ripped up. sitting on top of the recycling bin, waiting to be picked up…. I walked closer to confirm - and sure enough, my name and address CLEARLY printed across the top of both of the boxes. I grabbed them from the top of the open bin and went back to ring the bell again.

Again, no answer. So, I tried the gate. It was open. So I walked up the front walkway to the front door and knocked. I could see someone watching TV inside. At first they ignored the knocking but I knocked again and the lady who was sitting there finally got up and came to the door. She answered.

She said, “Can I help you?” To which I replied, “You have my shirts. I would like them, please” I showed her the opened boxes that I was holding in my hands. She hesitated for a minute like a deer in headlights, then sheepishly after a few seconds said, “Oh - OH, yes. Okay. See, I had ordered some clothes of my own and I thought maybe they just sent me the wrong items. I’ll go get them now.”

She closes the door and disappears back into the house and about a minute later, she returns with the two shirts that I ordered.

She says, “Yeah, I was just going to donate them. I’m sorry about opening your packages. I didn’t even look at the label or anything.”

She handed me my shirts and I went on my way without making a fuss but what BULLSH-T…. Mind you, her and her husband are also quite affluent. The houses in our neighborhood are multi-million dollar homes. I know for one that her husband is an anesthesiologist…..

Her manufactured story is insane. Am I really to believe that she 1. received the packages and then 2. didn’t look at the shipping labels on either one of the boxes, which are also clearly marked by the designer of the shirts (and she should have instantly known that she didn’t order from this specific brand) and 3. was just going to “donate” these without looking at the box to see they are her neighbor’s items from a few houses down…..

She was definitely going to just keep the clothes for herself and recycle the evidence - the boxes. They are designer shirts worth about $900. Some people really just absolutely blow my mind…… 😵‍💫