Came home to Stranger's Parked Vehicle on our driveway + our package in hand.
By Michelle
@infatuatedbby (95001)
United States
March 27, 2017 9:13pm CST
Imagine pulling up to your place and you see an unfamiliar parked vehicle on your garage driveway. What are your thoughts? Not only that but he had a package in his hands!
My fiancé and I had several thoughts in our mind, but he rolled down the window and the man asked if we lived at the house? We answered back yes and he handed our package to us stating that the mail person delivered it to the wrong house.
As odd as it was, we thanked the man and he drove off. We have never seen this neighbor before either.
I quickly went inside and checked. Amazon supposedly delivered the package at 2pm. We were home at 3pm before leaving again, so yes! Looks like whoever Amazon handed the package off to (USPS) delivered our package to a wrong house!
So thankful the man was nice and hopefully those were his intentions also. Though, it wasn't a happy mail/package for me but they're a couple of shirts I ordered for my uncle.
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@celticeagle (158876)
• Boise, Idaho
28 Mar 17
I'd be double checking my address on Amazon. I've never had USPS deliver anything to the wrong address before.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
The address on the package is correct! The person who delivered it must have gotten mistaken! Once we had the neighbor across the street tell us our packaged landed out at their door instead of ours.
I'm just glad it wasn't anything expensive. And it wasn't even for me but I ordered it for my uncle to be delivered here.
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@celticeagle (158876)
• Boise, Idaho
28 Mar 17
@infatuatedbby .....Somebody needs to report that delivery guy.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
@celticeagle I don't know who delivered today but that is unacceptable. I actually drove home today and went a different route and saw the guys car who delivered our package to our home.
He lived literally over 20 houses away, different block.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
28 Mar 17
I would be thinking the worse to, thankfully he was just a good guy returning your package.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
We thought it was awfully strange! But I am glad it was a good guy returning our package. :)
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@moirai (2836)
• Philippines
28 Mar 17
Hmm... well, that's... a bit scary. 
I guess it would depend on what your driveway looks like but you see... we have a gated driveway here so coming home to a strange vehicle IN our driveway would definitely cause red flags to go up. 
I would have no problems whatsoever if I find a car parked in front. That can happen for one reason or another. 
I guess it would depend on what your driveway looks like but you see... we have a gated driveway here so coming home to a strange vehicle IN our driveway would definitely cause red flags to go up.
I would have no problems whatsoever if I find a car parked in front. That can happen for one reason or another. 1 person likes this
@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
No gated driveway here. It is not common to have a gated driveway.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
@moirai Yes! But at his place no one can park in front it's fire zone.
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@moirai (2836)
• Philippines
28 Mar 17
@infatuatedbby Still, even without a gate, finding someone IN your driveway would still be alarming. Like I said, I'd have no problems finding someone parked IN FRONT. But IN the driveway...? 
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
28 Mar 17
I don't see anything wrong with what the nice man did. You should be glad he was honest.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
Nothing wrong at all. 
But the thought of driving home to a stranger holding our package, we thought otherwise at that second. Turned out a nice man returning our package!
Especially since package thieves are on the rise!
But the thought of driving home to a stranger holding our package, we thought otherwise at that second. Turned out a nice man returning our package!
Especially since package thieves are on the rise!@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill Yes, but living in California neighbors are literally 5feet away 
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
28 Mar 17
@infatuatedbby If someone was in our driveway they can't get near the house (gate)
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
@Plethos the package was something i ordered for my uncle lol. came from china i didnt need it
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@amandajay (23264)
• New Zealand
28 Mar 17
Haha finally your uncle got it.. Thats great. Btw you got nice neighbour...otherwise you could have missed it
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
Yes, waiting on a couple more shirts then I will give them all to him.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
30 Mar 17
@amandajay 7.. 3 more shirts then I can deliver them to him
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
We did not know what to think, but we had to pull up anyway to see what he was doing there. It was nice of him to return our package. :)
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@minx267 (15527)
• Hartford, Connecticut
28 Mar 17
I think I would have complained to the Post Office. And it was very nice of that guy to deliver it to you but if he hadn't then because of the fault of this Postman, your package may have just been stolen. And it would be marked as delivered to you...
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@minx267 (15527)
• Hartford, Connecticut
29 Mar 17
@infatuatedbby well they would have to have a talk with the carrier. It's possible this person makes the same mistakes a lot and the only way they are going to know is if people call and tell them.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
29 Mar 17
@minx267 Yeah, I am not happy with it. I need to figure out who is the delivery person and let them know!
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
Yes, I went home and checked. Package was supposedly delivered to our mailbox at 2pm, but it wasn't. It was hand delivered by the man at 5pm.
I don't think the post would do much.
@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
I guess it was more of , oh the name is the same nationality so he figured he'd drop by and see who we are and give us our package too.
I normally just put wrong address and ask the mail carrier to redeliver.
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@rebelann (111124)
• El Paso, Texas
28 Mar 17
Well, hopefully you've made a new friend @infatuatedbby but I would have been skeptical as well.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
@rebelann we don't know him or his names we just thanked him and carried on.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
28 Mar 17
You know, I don't remember how I found out... but I think I heard somewhere that amazon was considering outsourcing package delivery to individuals?
Either way, glad they were nice enough to bring it over. The fact that they drove.. and stayed in the driveway was a bit odd. I would have simply left the package at your doorstep.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
I heard Amazon wanted to hire more people as drivers to deliver?
It was nice that the person drove it over. They lived on the other side, it would be a little ways to walk but it was strange that they stayed in the driveway until we got home. Not sure how long they waited or if we just happened to come back the perfect time. But he was clueless on what to do. He could have just placed it out in front..... Or maybe because he was the same nationality, he wanted to see what we looked like? I don't know. I never seen the man before either.
@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
28 Mar 17
I'm glad the person brought you your package. Nit many people would have. But youre right its weird that he was there and i too would have been sketched out.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
Yes, not many would! So it was very nice. He happened to live on the other side quite far but glad he returned it. Our initial thoughts were wrong originally but everyone would expect the worse especially since packages being stolen has been on the rise.
@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
28 Mar 17
There are still good people in the world.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
28 Mar 17
Since I'm almost always in the house, couriers often ask me where this and that person lives for packages or mail that they are to deliver to. It's just irritating sometimes because people living in an adjacent compound also put in their address the name of our village compound when thee're not part of it as their compound is nameless. That's why mailmen and couriers are sometimes confused.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
28 Mar 17
I wouldn't want to be bothered 
But I think the man was nice and returned promptly because he saw that we were the same nationality, probably curious who we were also.
But I think the man was nice and returned promptly because he saw that we were the same nationality, probably curious who we were also.1 person likes this
@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
30 Mar 17
@sunrisefan Yes, I think so as well and probably curious to see who we were :)
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
28 Mar 17
@infatuatedbby Oftentimes people of the same nationality have a soft heart for each other when they're on foreign land.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
29 Mar 17
just thinking of what kid of world is it on when we get afraid a seeing a stranger in our drive way and his car is parked there We immediaely think the worst most often he is there to return a return a package sent to his home by error or deliver a message'
othiing bad in that.But we at once assume he is tryiong to steal something.
@allknowing (130066)
• India
29 Mar 17
Sad it did not bring a smile to receive the package which would have been lost for good if it was not returned to you (lol)
@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
29 Mar 17
I could see getting thrown off a bit. At least he didn't just leave it by the door where someone could steal it.
