[Closed] The most mis-delivered package?

A courier company once put a bunch of radios destined for Innerleithen on the truck marked Inverness. On a Friday morning. That came pretty close to being a show-stopper for a race that weekend. Its all Scotchland, innit Gazza !

not quite the same, but one of our goods out guys mislabelled a pallet and we sent about £40,000 of equipment to kazakhstan instead of about £4000 worth.

To be fair, the customer decided to keep it and pay for it.

give that man a raise then!

When I was a student living in Perth (Scotland) many years ago I got a letter with the message "try Scotland" and some Aussie stamps, on it.

When I was a student living in Perth (Scotland) many years ago I got a letter with the message "try Scotland" and some Aussie stamps, on it.

I think we have a winner.

Although at least that's an understandable (ish) mistake. There is no similarity between the Pitlochry address and mine.

Everything my neighbour gets via royal mail. we have same name and initials so postman sees the name and puts everything through my door

My dad was waiting for a tv that was promised on a Saturday delivery. He phoned at 4pm and was told by an overseas agent that the delivery would be with him within the hour it was just about in Harwich, pity he lives in Hawick.

John Leslie in those homemade vids?

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A parcel sent to Maribor, Slovenia ended up in Mumbai, India.

Luckily the respective postal services got the correct destination in the end.

How about 28000 tons of coal? caution some tech content

http://www.thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery

I send a package to someone in Ireland. It got lost. A few weeks after obtaining a refund on the postage the buyer emailed my to say it had turned up with 'misdirected via Thailand' written on it.

The recently defunct TNT postal service (Whistl?) pushed something through my letter box addressed to Heaton Park Tramway Museum.

My house:
a) Is not in Heaton Park
b) Does not look like a museum
c) Has no tram tracks or indeed trams outside it

The package was correctly addressed to the museum. No idea why the delivery person shoved it through my door or if they have managed to find a new job.

I once worked for a supermarket in Prestwich which has a large Jewish community. Once a delivery of Passover stuff arrived having done a round trip via Prestwick.

I sent some documents in our internal post at work from one London office to another (less than a mile separates them). I was quite surprised to get a phone call 2 days later from our Washington Office in the states asking me what they needed to do with them?

It came as no surprise to me that the guy who sent them used to work for Royal Mail.

A friend with a business in Manchester sent an employee out to deliver some car parts first thing one morning. He got a bit worried when the lad wasn't back by brew time.

Later that afternoon he got a phone call from the lad saying the address was a house, not a garage.

He was in Norwich, he should have been in Northwich... God bless sat navs!

I did some school work experience with a camera shop, at the time they were buying tons of quality mechanical photography kit from russia for peanuts and selling it on. One container turned up in Leith with a load of boxes of cameras, and also a grand piano which had a delivery label for Baltiysk

Got home one night to find a large hamper on the doorstep it had the right house and street on the address but was for a town about 40 miles away.

Free hamper:)

I once sold a pair of wheels to a chap in Southampton. He was going to pick them up from Surrey, but asked me to post them instead.
I sent them via Parcelforce, who sent them, according to online tracking, to Carlisle, not once, but 6 times...

I once sold a pair of wheels to a chap in Southampton. He was going to pick them up from Surrey, but asked me to post them instead.
I sent them via Parcelforce, who sent them, according to online tracking, to Carlisle, not once, but 6 times...

That's just wheely bad service.

The photo in reformedfatty's link is the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh.

The nearer (dark colored) bridge is for light rail transit. The bridge behind it (lighter color) is the Liberty Bridge. The building in the upper left corner is the jail.

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