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California Woman Receives 100 Portable Heaters She Never Ordered
By Ben Hooper
Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A California woman is trying to get to the bottom of an unusual mystery after being inun- dated with about 100 packages, each containing a portable heater.
Connie Mathews said she has received about 100 space heaters in the mail at her
Sacramento home and the mysterious pack- ages started arriv- ing earlier this month.
"They started coming Friday, two weeks before Christmas, and every day I would get sometimes two boxes, some- times more,"
she told KXTV. "Yesterday, there were seven boxes waiting on the
porch for us."
Mathews said the packages come from multiple locations across the country, including Iowa and North Carolina.
"The same thing over and over again. I have never ordered a portable heater. I don't need one," she said.
Mathews sus- pects her address may be erro- neously listed as a return address for an Amazon space heater sell- er.
"What happens if somebody comes back on me, say- ing well we sent them to your house, what did you do with it?" she said.
Mike and Kelly
Gallivan of Acton, Mass., faced a similar problem in 2018, when their house received a flood of Amazon packages contain- ing small, inex- pensive items they had never ordered.
"They started coming Friday, two weeks before Christmas, and every day I would get sometimes two boxes, some- times more,"
she told KXTV. "Yesterday, there were seven boxes waiting on the porch for us."
Mathews said the packages come from multiple locations across the country, including Iowa and North Carolina.
"The same thing over and over again. I have
never ordered a portable heater. I don't need one," she said.
Mathews sus- pects her address may be erro- neously listed as a return address for an Amazon space heater sell- er.
"What happens if somebody comes back on me, say- ing well we sent them to your house, what did you do with it?" she said.
Mike and Kelly Gallivan of Acton, Mass., faced a similar problem in 2018, when their house received a flood of Amazon packages contain- ing small, inex- pensive items they had never ordered.
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