Absolutely I would open it. Has the world become some terrified of bogyman terrorist that they won’t even open boxes?
I once received an amazon package with my name on it and a bunch of things I didn’t order. A trailer hitch bar, a heart rate monitor (around the chest kind), some chia seeds, and something else small and not worth much.
Are you kidding? It might contain peanuts. Or gluten!
Regards,
Shodan
Maybe I’m just naturally paranoid, but I would have been cautious if an unordered, unaddressed package shown up on my door in the calm 70s. Would I have been sure it was a bomb? No. But toasters or kilos of illegal drugs don’t just show up for me unordered, either.
If someone went to the trouble to wrap a package and bring it to my door, yet couldn’t be bothered to leave me a note, or call, then I’d be suspicious.
Do you people think free stuff just falls from the sky? Do you think you are so special that people, strangers even, just buy you stuff and have it delivered without asking you first?
Well, Amazon thought I was that special!
Um - rain, sleet, snow and hail, to name a few.
Among my friends and family it’s actually pretty common to randomly order surprise presents for other people, delivered straight to their house, so sure I’d open it.
Ok, but in all fairness, I watched an episode of Unsolved Mysteries when I was a kid about random-ass people who were sent mail bombs and had all their fingers and hands blown off and it traumatized me for a long time. For some reason, though, it generalized to being left alone in the car because I was convinced someone would sneak under there and attach a bomb.
Maybe these folks saw the same episode.
In other news, I dreamed last night I got another free surprise shipment of steaks.
Then I woke up. 
Hell, I’d move to a different street. Maybe even a different town!
I’m curious what sort of world you all live in where you think a package being a gift is less likely than a package being a bomb.
The likelihood that the package would be dangerous is infinitely small. Like you probably have a greater chance of getting struck by lightning.
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I would say approximately three times per year, we get a package that we did not order and that we don’t know who it’s from. Every single time it turns out to be a gift from someone we know. Keep in mind I probably receive an average of two packages a week because I believe I am, in my husband’s words, singlehandedly responsible for keeping Amazon in business. If you’re used to receiving packages all the time, it seems even less like a big deal.
I work in distribution systems and it is fairly common for someone to ask me to help figure out where mystery packages are supposed to go. We open them, use whatever clues are there and then use custom database queries to match it up with the intended owner. I don’t think I have ever failed although it has taken a really long time at certain points.
The worst was a really expensive piece of industrial networking equipment (think tens of thousands of dollars) that just showed up in my office one day for some unknown reason. It wasn’t needed and wasn’t addressed to a specific person. It was just a giant Cisco Systems box that no one would claim. It took me months to even find someone at Cisco that would give me any details on it but they eventually agreed to a return.
I can and would open a poorly marked package delivered at home in a heartbeat just to figure out where it is really supposed to go. Mail bombers and bio-terrorists just aren’t what they once were. Kids these days…