Just got a couple Amazon packages delivered today and I’m now 100% sure that’s an Amazon label there. Mine has that identical “Cycle 1” tag and that line of address codes on the bottom, although the terminating one on mine is “PDX” for Portland OR. Looks like you got yourself a free crockpot there!
Heard back from the intended recipient, and Amazon sent them another one, so now I’m stuck with this thing.
I tried to contact Amazon, but they require an Amazon account even to talk to them on the phone. They need to send a verification code to a number paired with your account. Same with live chat, you have to login to your account to even get to the right page.
I’m not creating an Amazon account just because one of their delivery service partners (not employees) left something in my yard.
So, if somebody leaves something in your yard, and then refuses to speak with you about it, is it yours? It is certainly your problem.
If somebody abandons their car in my driveway, it does not become my car. If somebody throws a free newspaper in my driveway, it does become mine. Where is the line?
Are you anywhere near a Goodwill, an ARC, a Salvation Army, or other thrift store that may be happy to receive a New In Box slow cooker to resell ?
Got a family member to whom you could gift it this season ?
Wherever that line is … IMHO … you’re on the safe side of it at this point.
My plan was to “accidentally” break my in-laws slow cooker, and then I would have their Christmas present all sorted out!
I may keep this one and donate my perfectly functional 15 year old one, or possibly donate this one. Nothing will end up in the dumpster (unlike if I just drop it off at a Whole Foods).
Hard to say where the line is exactly, but I agree you’re on the “newspaper” side of it given what you’ve told us.
A word of caution unrelated to the primary topic: sometimes new appliances aren’t as good as the old ones. Don’t get rid of your trusty old Crock Pot until you’re sure you like the new one.
Waking this thread, because something similar has happened to me again. This time not Amazon related.
Somebody left some power tools in my driveway. Reviewing my security camera shows it was (probably) a woman in a small hatchback (Honda Fit?). She sat out front a bit, then unloaded these tools in a line in my driveway. I noticed them when I was backing out, so I moved them out of the way.
We put them in the garage to get them out of the rain, and so they’re not just sitting outside all night. We put a sign on the garage door saying to text or knock to get them back. We also posted to Nextdoor a picture of the car and person, but not the tools.
It looks like these are for doing interior trim, molding, or something like that.
I’d really like to get them back to the owner, because my concern is that these are being used for somebody to earn a living.
Well, one important difference is that the ownership of cars is officially registered with the state. The ownership of Crock-Pots and power tools are not.
Another important difference is whether the (prior?) owner wants the thing. The guy who tossed the free newspaper on your driveway does not want it back. The purchaser of that crockpot didn’t, either.
I think that if there’s any likelihood the owner wants the thing back, you owe them a good faith attempt to inform them that you have the thing, and to cooperate if they want to fetch it.
Power tools left in a driveway is weird. I wonder if the person who left them there stole them. Who takes out power tools except at home and at the site where they want to use them?
I’ve found power tools by my garage a few times, but they’ve always been tools I’d loaned out to a friend.
This is one of our top scenarios. Someone was returning borrowed tools, but somehow dropped them at the wrong house.
Yeah, definitely take all of those things into account when figuring out what to do with things that mistakenly come into my possession. I left a front license plate and holder propped up where it could be seen from the road. That disappeared after a day. The shot put ball I just used decoratively. The misdelivered mail I either hand deliver or return to the postal carrier, occasionally after correcting the address. The trash that blows in I cleanup. Sometimes it feels like I’m living on Sakaar.
Those tools might be broken? And she didn’t want to take them to the dump?
I’m trying to find a use for golf balls. Someone has been driving golf balls for practice, I assume, and I’ve found maybe three dozen in our one horse pasture. I pick up five or six each time i walk through the pasture to put Gracie’s muzzle on.
I don’t play golf, but I’m sure they have other uses.
My house is numbered something like 9514 Main Street. Two blocks from me is an apartment building with circa 600 apartments numbered 9314 Main Street. Every single day, we get mail for someone in that apartment building. We also often get packages where presumably the person entered the address fully consciously and really wanted it to get to the right place. We’ve received misdelivered furniture, a mattress, and countless boxes where we can’t judge the contents. Maybe everyone knows their address, but not everyone can reliably enter it into a web page.
Several years ago I was dumped by a woman that I had been dating for several months. While we were dating she’d occasionally have something delivered to my house. A couple of months later I got a package for her that was from a company that made it clear that it was a gift for a new dude. 
It was a menu dropdown error. It stung a little but it was an honest mistake. She was embarrassed and sent me a text asking if I would leave it on my porch for her to get while the next day. Of course I did.
Mystery solved!
Our righty next door neighbor got in touch, and said they were expecting a friend to bring by some tools and she might have gotten the wrong driveway.
Our lefty neighbor came home while we were outside staring at the tools in befuddlement, so we knew they weren’t for him. Righty wasn’t home last night when we knocked on their door.
The only response we got to the Nextdoor post was an only partially coherent message from somebody saying they had lost some tools, and could we describe the ones we found. Yeah, that’s not going to happen.
No real point in making our neighbor jump through hoops to get the tools, because if the police or somebody show up looking for the tools, we know were our neighbor lives.
Is it worth a quick call to your veterinarian?
Here’s your answer.
I’m pretty sure that I’ve read of their use in proving that newer, low-flow toilets can handle the task.
So it sounds like you need to strike a deal with the nearest toilet factory!
I have seen hand-lettered signs “Golf Balls For Sale” at houses nearish golf courses. Dunno about the legality; I’m assuming they have been harvested from properties near the courses, rather than someone sneaking onto the grounds at night.
Or google “uses for old golf balls”. There are a surprising number of hits.
Or they are having it shipped to someone else’s address - it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if my son got his sister’s address wrong when having an Amazon package shipped there.
Wow! Sure beats potato guns.
Dang, they’re woke!
From your link (bolding mine),
American Cannons is proud to present our golfball launching cannons available in multiple sizes & styles for the black power and golf ball shooting enthusiast.