Harvestdad recently celebrated a birthday, for which I ordered him Dance of the Peacocks: New Zealanders in Exile in the Time of Hitler and Mao Tse-Tung from an overseas seller I found through Amazon.com Marketplace.
Yesterday the package arrived, but it contained The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective by Kaplan and Kaplan. A receipt inside reveals it was intended for a customer from Ireland.
I have emailed the seller but I’m not sure what happens next. I suspect the Irish customer has the book I intended for my father and may well be just as bemused, unless this is part of a cycle of mismailings whereby each of us has received the item intended for the previous purchaser on the list.
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It was a one-off mix-up according to the seller, who refunded my money and is seeking out the Irish recipient of my purchase to do the same. Now I have a free volume on environmental psychology. Yay?
Yay. Random books received by mistakes can be lifechanging.
Or not.
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I’ve managed to source a copy of the volume I wanted from here, which also looks like an interesting place for a visit.