What’s the oddest thing you’ve got through the post that you didn’t order?

by zetecvan

32 comments
  1. And you got what you ordered. They made some switches.

  2. Who in their right mind is ordering orange juice from amazon? Go to the feckin shops you lazy sons of britches. Seriously

  3. I ordered a dash-cam a few years ago and received a random CD, not in it’s case, just floating around with some packing paper. After months of trying to get a refund I just gave up.

  4. Somewhere out there in the UK a youth football coach is wondering why he got a bunch of switches instead of the half time snacks he ordered.

  5. Last week I ordered a hair dryer and received a 6 pack of ramen noodles instead.

  6. Those salt and vinegar snacks are absolutely insanely strong, they will rip the taste buds right off your tongue. It’s debated that Co-ops own brand salt and vinegar are the most potent but these bad boys make them look weak in comparison. Absolutely amazing.

  7. Husband ordered an extension for his car sun visor from Amazon last month

    Received 2 incredibly large bolts & nuts instead which although huge, weren’t enough to block out the sun. Thankfully it’s rained continuously since anyway, so

  8. I ordered some wood cleaner and got sent a bottle of Moschino Gold Fresh perfume which – ironically – comes in a bottle resembling cleaning spray

  9. My girlfriend’s teenage brother ordered a £3 pack of playing cards, and ended up with a £60 lego set !

  10. up until recently my wife would get all sorts of crap through the post. One being a massive bear, glow-in-the-dark stars, a big goose thing, some small squeaky toys, and other rubbish. These were all under her unmarried name.

    Once a month almost to the day for 2 years something would appear

    it stopped once we reported one of the package ids to amazon.

    We suspect it was part of a brushing scam

  11. I ordered a deliveroo Greek takeaway tonight in London…it turned up, along with a smaller heavier bag…this contained a jar of Branstons pickle!!

  12. A few years back I received an Xbox controller in the post that I never ordered. A month or so later the same thing happened again. Turned out to be from an eBay stock clearance company that I had ordered something from earlier in the year.

    In total I received three Xbox controllers before they seemed to realise their mistake. I was never contacted by them regarding the controllers oddly enough.

  13. At least it got delivered, it’s 50/50 as to whether the driver can find my house. Today they excelled themselves. They couldn’t find a huge Ford dealership on the A5. Even Evri can find me, why can’t Amazon?

  14. My order from Asda was left outside my door. It had been switched with a large selection of cakes (including one large chocolate cake). Presumably for a birthday party. I was still half drunk from the night before, so I just kind of shrugged and dug in.

    I regret nothing.

  15. I ordered some shoe laces a few weeks ago and received a screwdriver

  16. please please dont take this as an attack on the poster as i am not doubting them. but overall, i see posts on this site which say a cat appeared and i dont own a cat. or weirdlty, a blurry photo with the title “this was on my camera roll while i was asleep”.

    and other such stuff. now i dont think this sub would bother as its not going to get front page or whatever, but im astounded by how well those kind of posts do on this site when we all know for imaginary points, some people will actually just lie.

    anyway, hopefully amazon refund as this stuff happens a lot im told. accident or deliberate scam, who knows.

    Guess people can’t read, shame

  17. I ordered some cleaning wipes and got a light up remote control moon lamp.

    A few years ago I had moved to a new house and bought ring alarm from Costco and several additional sensors from Amazon. Amazon sent me the ring alarm with the sensors. I contacted them and they said to keep it. I cancelled the Costco order and saved £200.

  18. We ordered an industrial blower for our power plant. It’s a $200 specialty blower for compressed air.

    We received pee bags. A box of little bags full of the same stuff in diapers. You pee into them seal them up and toss them.

    It wasn’t even close. The place we ordered from only makes industrial equipment.

  19. 200 round of ammo for a nerf gun…. I didn’t even order anything

  20. Ordered a statistics textbook whilst at uni, got sent a collection of erotic postcards from the 1920s

  21. I ordered one of those bird feeder and camera combinations from an instagram advert, 2 weeks later received a cheap necklace through the post. They even tried to fight the PayPal claim, bless.

  22. Someone at the depot must have….switched the boxes.

  23. Last week I ordered an iPad from amazon.i received a single packet of baby wipes instead.
    Amazon wouldn’t send a replacement Ipad which I can understand but said they would refund me.
    They would issue the refund when I’d returned the baby wipes to them was what they told me.
    Couldnt believe it and told them there was no way I was taking time out of my day to send a £2 pack of wipes back to them given that it was their mistake in the first place.
    Eventually they agreed that I didn’t have to return the baby wipes but only after I sent them a photo of said wipes did they issue the refund.

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