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If anything arrives through your letterbox or at your door that you haven’t ordered it is best to accept the delivery and then inform the sender. If you refuse to accept delivery you will still get an invoice and demands for payment even if the goods have got back to where they came from. Most likely the goods will not get back to the sender. Couriers and postmen/women are not as honest as they used to be and items not accepted by the recipient have been known to get ‘lost’ on their way back.

You treat the surplus as unsolicited goods and as such you are allowed to keep them – IF – you notify the sender that the received goods were not ordered by you. If they are not removed from your premises within 3 months you can consider them as a gift and you will be quite entitled to keep them. You are under no obligation to send them back at your own expense. Your obligation stops at notifying the sender.


On three occasions this year I have received an overpayment into my E-Gold account. I emailed the sender (an HYIP) offering to return the surplus less E-Gold charges and on each occasion they emailed me back to say thanks for notifying them of the overpayment and I could keep it for my honesty. One overpayment was for $25, one for $5 something and one for $11 something but this one deducted the $11 something from my account to balance the books as it were. Cheapskates!!!