Is there a tracking number. If so, you could access their tracking website. That might tell you who the sender was. An expensive mistake for whoever sent you empty packages.

My internet provider. Very weird.

empty boxes via FedEx. They'll probably wonder, too.

There may have been a miscue in communication. I know he was think about changing to roku on some of the devices, but nothing he planned to do immediately

If the same, I would just wait and see. We once received an expensive hammer we didn't order, with no return info. Days later we got another one. Never solved the mystery but have two great hammers.

Though, I prefer your story. Last week I got a free chamber pot. And this week I got five boxes with five brand new, large bubble wrap envelopes which must have cost at least 2 bucks each.

It could be worse.

It will be crazy..

Similar happened to us with dish but the envelope was to tell us when the tech was coming and they could have called for that. Charged 50 bucks for shipping 1 envelope.

An errand,

It was listed as postage and we called them asking wtf..

It was ridiculous. I'm sure we tried to get it off our bill but I can't remember if they took it off.

They sent a modem in 1 box and the message in another. We have 3 phones they could have called..

I read that drug dealers use random addresses to send small items to as some sort of test to send drugs to later. Then they watch the porch to snag the drug package later before the homeowner gets it.

I'm just talking out my ass here. I can't emphasize that enough. I don't know if it's true or an Urban Legend.

If I got mystery packages like that I’d hit all the buttons and raise a ruckus, just to be on the safe side. Definitely do track the packages. You might get useful info there.

On edit: I’d also stop receiving packages at home. You’ll have to decide whether that’s too much of a pain in the butt.

This story could form the beginning of a Twilight Zone episode

Who knows if those packages were really empty, and what might have been released by opening them?

but my husband would over my objections.

That is kind of a classic old-school Twilight Zone opening, now that you mention it

assuming he must be a drug dealer, and shot his two dogs:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003299.html

The police chief was so cavalier about killing their dogs, on top of everything else.

From the article linked below:

"He also explained to me that in all likelihood, the perpetrator(s) intended to perform a test to see if I would quickly retrieve items shipped to my address and left on my doorstep, in order to locate an address where they could have larger and more expensive fraudulently-obtained merchandise shipped, which could, in turn, be retrieved from the doorstep by someone connected to the perpetrators, when they thought I wasn't at home," Fredrics said.



https://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2015/12/bamboozled_why_a_mystery_package_delivery_could_me.html

We have many security cameras around the house.

...bubble wrap in them . I have a site that I report the date received and the condition. They use a bogus delivery name but my address so I know which are decoys. Were they addressed to you?

Came from Charter Communications, which connects to Spectrum.

Tell me more about this mail decoy drop.

I called the bank it was drawn on and they said it was phoney.
I still haven't figured that one out.

no one wants to fill us in on the details. No way to protect ourselves

There are a couple of varieties of fake check scams.

A lot of scams play on selfish impulses or greed of the mark, who does not realize they've been had until the scam is done.

Normally with a fake check scam, the mark gets a check "by accident". In order to sort it out, they are contacted by someone who has a story about how the accident happened, and asks the mark to go ahead and cash the check, wire them the money (or Western Union or some other method), and keep a generous portion for themselves for "helping out". The mark will deposit the check, send the money, and the money is long gone by the time the check bounces.

There are a number of variations on that theme. One of them is pretty common in the legal profession. Some foreign company contacts you with a legal claim that's pretty clear (copyright infringement or some contract violation) and wants to hire you to settle the matter. The "other side" shows up shortly thereafter, and wants to roll over and pay the requested settlement. The parties ask the lawyer to manage the settlement payment, the lawyer is given a fake check and...

In general, all of the fake check scams involve getting the mark to do practically nothing for "free money". If you are naturally inclined to be suspicious about someone giving you "free money", then you are pretty well insulated already from falling for them.

it was a money order for around a thousand dollars from the US Postal Service (except not really lol). With instructions to cash it, go buy some stuff at Wal-mart with a little bit of it and send them back the change and a report on customer service. It was a mystery shopper scam. My wife took the money order to the PO and they confirmed it fake. They asked if they could keep it and the info from the scammer for their investigation. Not long my wfie got a call 9or maybe an email?) from the scammer asking if we had performed the requested tasks and she told them "Yes! Except we left the money order with the Post Office and their investigators and they really would like to talk to you..." and we never heard from them again.


But what worries me is some criminals somewhere have our address.

I have security cameras too, now.

The Post Office was pretty cool about it though - they explained how the scam works and showed my wife a real money order from them and admired the forgery - though obvious to them it was not too far off. Thanked her for letting them have all the info. I hope they report back with successful prosecution.

This has to be a mistake, or somebody could be playing a joke on you. But you should get to the bottom of it. Maybe somebody is giving your address by mistake, or maybe somebody inside the company is covering up for an employee theft.(?)

There's no way to know.

We just returned equipment to Frontier and that was what they sent - shirt sized box for the modem and the bubble envelope was for the cords. Maybe just a wrong address?

To return equipment. If you did not call Spectrum, then they got sent to a mistaken address.

I have some CenturyLink hardware still sitting around here because when my grandpa switched to Direct TV he requested CL come get their shit. They said they would send boxes for everything. I called them 4 times over a period of about 6 months and they kept saying they already sent the boxes out. We never got them. Either someone got boxes they have no idea why or some thieves got disappointed when they stole boxes of bubble wrap off our porch.

But I gave up on CL - not lifting even a pinky to get them their stuff back. They probably don't want it any more than we do as it's old, slow equipment. Grandpa died a year ago and we don't use them so eff 'em. It will go in the dumpster when I need the garage space more than I need to not go out to the dumpster.

I have one box in my living room right now to send back a cell signal booster to T-Mobile. They sent us a newer model that works better but they want the old one back. Spectrum would do that too if you were exchanging stuff. Although there are Spectrum locations nearby that you can drop stuff off at.

Anthrax test kits?

I demand you send them to me.

I tracked the package and called about it. They said it had been delivered and left in the mail room. One, I live in a house so no mail room. Two, I have a Ring door monitor so could look at the recordings for that day. They refunded me but never did find out what happened to the console. About sixteenths later the FEET for the thing arrived in a smaller box, looking as though they'd been through a war.

It's likely a silly mistake.

from an address in TX. The senders name is no one I know but is the name of a women's activist who is dead. I don't even know anyone from TX. It came US postal in a 2 day delivery package.
I have no idea what this is nor am I going to open it. There are other strange coincidences about the package ID that I won't elaborate on.
Bizarre.

My hubby confirmed that he's sending back some t.v. gigamini back to Spectrum. We're cutting back on the budget. So the mystery has been solved on my home front.

If I figure out our mystery I'll pass it on.

It occurred during work hours, but, also the boxes were addressed to me. So, one would think that I would have had something to do with it.