Feb. 15 (UPI) — A California man received dozens of mysterious Amazon packages at his home over the course of six months.
John DeFiore said the parcel flood began with a single envelope containing two machine screws that arrived at his home in Woodside.
The package bore DeFiore’s address, but the name on the label was “Danial Williams.”
“Oh, somebody just made a mistake,” DeFiore recalled thinking in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News . “Maybe there’s a new neighbor named Daniel Williams.”
He found a Dan Williams living in the nearby town of La Honda, but he told DeFiore he didn’t know anything about the crews.
More packages soon arrived, including solar panel cables, a video game console, a digital picture frame and a portable foot spa.
DeFiore said he and his wife, Jan, eventually stopped opening the packages and simply sent them back.
He said the packages went from being a minor annoyance to a major problem when his Amazon Prime credit card was charged $459 for a sofa that showed up at his home. He said his attempts to get a refund were complicated by the fact that the sofa wasn’t purchased on his Amazon account.