Woman says Target has mistakenly sent her more than 100 packages in nearly a week
7I guess Meh’s shipping problems aren’t so bad; this sounds like some of the Irks people have gotten, though:
https://www.nbc15.com/2023/11/18/woman-says-target-has-mistakenly-sent-her-more-than-100-packages-nearly-week/
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Well that article is useless
@catthegreat Why?
@catthegreat @Kyeh Yeah, why?
@catthegreat Also asking why you think that. Seemed pretty okay to me.
Target has been unintentionally doing TargetDrop on just one person? How do the rest of us get in on it?
@werehatrack
Right but I don’t want glasses, give me something more useful.
@Star2236 @werehatrack More useful? Like trackers perhaps? While I don’t have 100 of them, I have at least 50 or 60 I could mistakenly send you postage due if you’d like. I won’t even do it one at a time.![:rofl:](https://dj5zo597wtsux.cloudfront.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f923.png)
@Star2236 @werehatrack In my case, glasses are very useful. (If they match my eyesight needs.)
I’m pretty sure I would have been a high volume eBay seller of glasses at half target’s price if I were that lady. But nice of them to donate them to charity.
@djslack I was impressed by her scrupulous refusal to just pick out a few pairs to keep for herself. Once you’re given something, it’s yours, really - but I admire her priciples.
@Kyeh Yes, she’s got above and beyond principles. I believe I have a strong moral compass, but I also know the FTC specifically says that packages that show up addressed to me are mine.
If they were addressed to someone else, that’s another issue. But a package shows up for djslack, it’s mine to do what I want. And if 140 of them show up, I believe I would also build Fort Target in my living room while I worked out what to do with them.
Maybe it’s not eBay. Maybe there’s a modern art installation waiting to be made with all those glasses. Chances are, I’ll never know.
I think it was @somf69 that got about that many trip glasses, but at least Meh had the decency to ship them as one pallet instead of hundreds of boxes.
@djslack I’m with you on that, especially since she contacted them repeatedly - and I suspect that Target might actually have preferred it if she’d just dealt with them so they didn’t have to send someone over!
They can’t say her address, obviously, but I wonder if it would clear up the mystery.
Maybe she lives at “1 Null St.” or “1 Target St.” or something else that some dumb database software might use to auto-correct a common typo.