I arrive back at Casa del Garrett to find a UPS package waiting for me. I’d ordered something from Amazon but it had only shipped yesterday so I couldn’t imagine it was that. And closer inspection of the shipping label indicated it was not the product I’d ordered anyway. But what was it then? <\/p>\n
So I open it and discover something kinda nifty but not anything I’d ordered from anyone anywhere. It wasn’t on my Amazon Wish List either, so I doubt it came from an appreciative reader. People just don’t send you things like the item that arrived on my doorstep today without at least some indication that you might actually want it. I mean…it’s nice and all…and if someone I know did send it to me I really appreciate the thought. But I’d never have bought one of these for myself.<\/p>\n
I try to think if it came as part of something else I’d bought sometime in the past, that was, like, some bonus item you got if you bought some other thing. But no…this particular thing was only introduced into the marketplace last July. I haven’t bought anything since then that might have included this item as a bonus.<\/p>\n
So now I’m thinking…Identity Theft. So I need to go online and check to see if someone is making purchases on one of my credit cards and something got shipped to my house instead of theirs by mistake…<\/p>\n
I’ll keep you posted on how this all sorts out…<\/p>\n
[Update…]<\/em> Okay…The cards I use to buy things online show no suspicious activity. Neither do any of my bank accounts. I have no new credit card accounts created in my name according to my credit reporting service. I have some other accounts I need to check tomorrow morning because I have to contact those agencies by phone and it’s past business hours now. But my main spending cards seem to be safe,<\/p>\n This item I got today really was sent to me…it has my name on the packing slip, but frustratingly no payment information other then it was "pre-paid". There is also no number on the packing slip I can call to make inquiries. It’s a product from a well known American corporation…but there is no contact information on the packing slip for them. Just that it was sent from one of their distribution centers.<\/p>\n It’s not horribly expensive, judging from the prices for it I see online. Anywhere from $100 – $150. But I didn’t order it and I can’t imagine how it might have been sent to me other then as a gift, or because someone out there got my credit card info and is using it to buy themselves goodies…one of which just happened to get sent to me. But so far I can’t see any evidence of that.\n<\/p>\n I don’t have that many cards…I don’t like credit but I live with it because it’s necessary in this day and age. This is a good reason not to have too many accounts out there…so if something looks suspicious you don’t have to check out very many things. I have an account with a credit monitoring agency that sends me notification of any changes in my credit status almost instantly. When I financed the Mercedes they practically barraged me with notifications that I was being checked, and that the loan in my name had been approved. So I think I’m safe there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I arrive back at Casa del Garrett to find a UPS package waiting for me. I’d ordered something from Amazon but it had only shipped yesterday so I couldn’t imagine it was that. And closer inspection of the shipping label indicated it was not the product I’d ordered anyway. But what was it then? So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}