Well, it's not really. It's bizarre.
A few weeks ago I received a card through the door from the postman for a package to be collected from the Delivery Office. The name of the addressee was not familiar so I checked with my neighbours, whose name I don't know, but it was unfamiliar to them. I thought maybe I would go and collect the package and find out, but then I thought, I would need proof of being the addressee, which I don't have, so I thought I would contact Royal Mail, but I forgot.
This morning I received a letter addressed to an unfamiliar name and I connected it to that package. I opened it and read it as being a payment reminder from a Chocolate firm who are doing some heavy marketing right now.
I phoned them up (I don't want credit black-listing for a £10 debt that isn't mine) and they were very sensible and co-operative, understood what I was saying, didn't make accusations, and said they would remove the details from their database. I commented it was bizarre behaviour, because, presumably, a normal fraudster would want access to the goods. If the postman had knocked louder, and if I hadn't been in a deep sleep, I would have accepted the package and then investigated whether it belonged to a neighbour (my religious nutter neighbours have a bizarre habit of giving my address to mailing organisations - through lack of clarity rather than deliberate stupidity, I think). I would probably have ended up eating the chocolate - oh, come on, this is chocolate! It can't be a postal insider job, because that scam falls down with the attempt to deliver. It's not a senseless act of random kindness, because the bill has landed on my doormat. And, despite the title of the post, it's not Identity Fraud.
The man who answered the phone said that they have had a few like this, they think it's a prankster, which must be very annoying for them. The only rational explanation is that it is a rival hell bent on destroying them. And indeed, there was recently a news story about a rival having to sack a chocalatier for deliberate sabotage of this company's product. So perhaps I am the innocent victim of industrial sabotage. Which is rather exciting! If I could have predicted being a victim of industrial sabotage, I wouldn't have predicted the chocolate industry!
Now, of course, I have the letter demanding payment, I could theoretically go to the Delivery Office and claim the package. But that would then make me a criminal, and I think that interfering with the Royal Mail is a far more serious crime than mere petty theft. I am also wondering whether it's a crime to impersonate an imaginary person.
