Talk about return to sender

'Tis the season when even people who never get packages get packages. USPS. Amazon. UPS. FedEx. (Especially Amazon.) 

They're stopping by my six-unit condo building pretty much non-stop these days, and our little foyer is jam-packed with packages. Happy Stocking-stuffed Holidays, y'all.

But for a Kentucky woman, the package she was expecting wasn't the fleece she ordered for her son-in-law, Labubus for the grandkiddos, that lemon verbena handcream for herself. 

No, she was recently waiting for a courier to swiftly complete their appointed rounds by dropping off some time-sensitive medication and medical supplies. The package arrived... 

When she opened it, though, she found two human arms and four human fingers on ice. (Source: NY Times)

Oh. Oh no.

The woman wisely called 911, and emergency responders passed her call on to County Coroner Scott Daniel, who headed on over to pick up the spare parts. 

He said he took the limbs and digits to the local morgue, where a courier retrieved them on Thursday morning. Mr. Daniel declined to disclose the name of the courier company that made the delivery or identify the homeowner who received the package...

The package containing the body parts originated in Nashville, and was supposed to be delivered to a school or hospital in that city for surgical training, Mr. Daniel said.

The body parts inside it came from four different bodies, he said.

“I didn’t ask,” he said in response to a question about the source of the body parts. “I mean, I’d assume, obviously, I think they came from cadavers that had been donated.”

The woman who had been awaiting her meds got the right package the next day. Phew! But talk about wanting to return something to sender.

Kinda wished there'd been a porch pirate who'd retrieved the package instead. They would have been expecting to find something goody-good-good in there: the SIL fleece, the grandbaby Labubu, the sweet-smelling lemon-verbena hand cream. Better yet, something better. An iPhone. Diamond earrings. Gift cards.

What a wonderous sight it would have been to behold the look on the face of the porch pirate when they started tearing through their day's accumulation of loot.

Ah, what have we here???

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Source of Image: Inconspicuous Consumption