FedEx Delivered the Wrong Package and All I Got Was a "No Problem" — Dumbfounded Cat

This morning I received a call starting with the Tamsui area code. They had called yesterday too, and after missing it I specially searched the number’s source, unexpectedly finding it was a dedicated line of AcBel Polytech.

A company I had once interviewed at — for a moment I thought the HR department had blundered and dug up my old resume from those years.

The gentleman on the other end told me their company had received a large box of a package sent by Google, and after inquiring found that FedEx had mistakenly delivered it to their company, so they specially called to ask where it should be sent back to.

I could roughly guess what it was, but could not guess why it had gone to AcBel.

That company is at least 3.8 kilometers away from my old home. Holding doubts and also afraid it was a scam, I still told the gentleman at AcBel the delivery address, and in the afternoon the FedEx delivery person called, wanting to arrange a time convenient for delivery.

When the logistics worker delivered the goods and was about to leave, I was still puzzled that it seemed a step was missing.

On second thought I realized I had not signed yet. Afraid that he might have been too busy and forgotten, and that reporting it through the company’s receiving system afterward would cause trouble, I hurriedly called out: “Sir, you have not let me sign yet.”

As a result, the handsome young man turned back, gave me a brilliant smile, said “No problem,” and left.

Leaving me like a dumbfounded cat, wondering whether FedEx’s freight logistics system is really this crude — not even requiring a receipt confirmation, quite similar to the folksy logistics of the countryside.

I guess it may be because the recipient had already been signed for by AcBel’s side, and afterward the FedEx delivery person transferred it to me, which was no longer a standard process operation.

If that is really the reason, then there is a lot of room for manipulation in between. After all, a system loophole without security control and supervision mechanisms is enough for someone with ill intent to exploit. Although I personally find it hard to believe that an international-level logistics enterprise would not have its own set of management process mechanisms for correcting the return of a misdelivered package.

By the way, AcBel Polytech’s address is “No. 159, Sec. 3, Danjin Rd., Tamsui Dist., New Taipei City 251.” Apart from “Tamsui District, New Taipei City” and the Arabic numerals, all the other characters are wrong. Even the English of the street has no similarity at all. How this package ended up at their home still leaves me full of question marks.