# A curious parcel arrived last night **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309 "2007-10-19T16:42:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/61 "2007-10-20T04:38:52Z")
It’s been rather a while since Balance posted. Is it time to start worrying? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/62 "2007-10-20T05:08:17Z")
This is killing me. I got a package today from Amazon, and it was nice and all, but I knew what was inside. This, this, my friends, is a Grade A mystery. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/63 "2007-10-20T05:26:51Z")
[QUOTE=NinjaChick] What’s this a reference to? [/QUOTE] It’s from _The Music Man_; it’s the Wells Fargo wagon number where everyone’s all excited–like if you only got UPS deliveries once every few months, all at once. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/64 "2007-10-20T05:36:31Z")
It’s a curious parcel! How can anyone resist the mystery of a curious parcel? It’s like a Sherlockian pastiche. _The Adventure of the Curious Parcel_. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/65 "2007-10-20T12:33:01Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] It’s a curious parcel! How can anyone resist the mystery of a curious parcel? It’s like a Sherlockian pastiche. _The Adventure of the Curious Parcel_. [/QUOTE] In which _the dog did not bark in the night_…yes, I got that vibe too. Perhaps it’s a copy of _The King In Yellow_? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/66 "2007-10-20T12:57:21Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] …and in the wallet is a piece of paper that answers “14 k of g in a f p d”. [/QUOTE] I think you’ve nailed it. All of our questions have been answered here. No need to keep reading the this. Two mysteries solved in one thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/67 "2007-10-20T12:58:00Z")
Hmmm, what´s the point of delivering a safe box so urgently, if the keys are not delivered too? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/68 "2007-10-20T12:59:55Z")
[QUOTE=Ale] Hmmm, what´s the point of delivering a safe box so urgently, if the keys are not delivered too? [/QUOTE] Maybe because common concern for the box contents **mandates** separate shipping, by different firms? :dubious: \ ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/69 "2007-10-20T13:24:11Z")
It’s a [bobcat](http://xkcd.com/325/)! ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/70 "2007-10-20T13:24:18Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Maybe because common concern for the box contents **mandates** separate shipping, by different firms? :dubious: \ [/QUOTE] Hey, stop that! Of course the key shouldn´t be sent with the safe (unless the safe itself is the delivered object and not it´s contents) But I´d expect the key to arrive via a separate channel but close in tiem with the delivery of the box, if not there´s no point on making an express delivery of something that can´t be opened for who knows how long. Now get ready cos´it´s payback time… _Aproaches **Bosda** with a wet trout in each hand._ ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/71 "2007-10-20T13:25:04Z")
Goddamn it, feels like this is the setup for a big whoosh. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SomeUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@SomeUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SomeUserName)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/72 "2007-10-20T13:27:04Z")
What the hell, no updates? How long is the damn meeting? Did the poster go out of town for it? I demand closure. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/73 "2007-10-20T13:39:25Z")
I once received in the mail an unexpected, small, flat, padded envelope with a Pakistan postmark, too many stamps, a handwritten address and no return address. All the hallmarks of a bomb, right? And I don’t know anyone in Pakistan or even east of NYC or west of LA. So I almost called the bomb squad, but felt foolish enough not to. I took the package outside, pointed it away from me (I know, it wouldn’t really have mattered if it was a bomb, but I felt like I was doing something) and opened it. Inside was a small paperback book of Islamic poetry. Not the sort of thing I am likely to order. Then I remembered giving permission once to someone over the Internet to use one of my photos for their book cover, and this must be the book. It was accompanied by a handwritten note (in English) thanking me for my offer, but saying that they had decided to use some other art work instead. Overall, I’d say it was a dissapointment, but it could have been worse. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/74 "2007-10-20T13:39:56Z")
[QUOTE=Rysto] It contains a message from your future self. One week from now you will receive the key in the mail. The first part of the message will contains details of the upcoming week that only you would know. That will prove that not only did the message come from yourself, it came from your future self. The second half of the message will contain your instructions. **Follow these to the letter.** In all likelihood the fate of humanity depends on it. [/QUOTE] This. I’ve sent plenty of packages to myself from the past to the present and from the future to the present and have refused delivery due to the fact that I sent them COD every freakin’ time. :::: pulls up a chair and sits expectantly waiting new developments::::::: ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/75 "2007-10-20T13:48:52Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] I got a brand new mystery stong box, you got a brand new key. [/QUOTE] Danger, Will Robinson. Earworm alert. 14 k of g in a f p d, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/76 "2007-10-20T14:35:11Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] It could be curtains, or dishes or a double boiler… Montgomery Ward sent me a bathub and a cross cut saw. Once I got some grapefruit from Tampa; in March I got a gray mackinaw… (never mind-I’m old) I hope it’s a nice surprise. [/QUOTE] I’m 34 and I got it. One of my favorite all time musicals - or movies for that matter. By the way, it could be a cannon for the courthouse lawn! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/77 "2007-10-20T15:02:29Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] It contains a wallet. [/QUOTE] Inside a cooler, sent by a co-worker. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/78 "2007-10-20T15:33:48Z")
[QUOTE=Ale] Now get ready cos´it´s payback time… _Aproaches **Bosda** with a wet trout in each hand._ [/QUOTE] \ You have much to learn, young samurai. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/79 "2007-10-20T15:49:34Z")
_sniff. sniff, sniff_ Why does it smell like wet trout in here? No news YET? Enquiring minds want to KNOW! ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309/80 "2007-10-20T16:22:02Z")
_whine_ I wanna know what’s happening! **Ale** , **Bosda** , put the fishes away. Yes, we all know you have very large trouts and are very good at handling them, but no one wants to see that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-parcel-arrived-last-night/423309.md?page=5)