‘They kept coming’: Hundreds of packages pile up outside US woman’s home


Boxes outside Holton’s house in San Jose, Calif. Holton said the boxes that arrived at her house were returns of car seat covers sold on Amazon by an independent seller called Liusandedian. — KAREN HOLTON via The New York Times

About a year ago, a single package appeared on Karen Holton’s porch in San Jose, California. She was bewildered; she had not ordered anything, and neither had her neighbours. So she dropped the package at UPS, and thought that was the end of it.

She was wrong.

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