Let me tell you a funny story.
As I've mentioned before Frances is travelling in the USA. She wanted to off load some the things she had in her backpack to lighten the load. It included her walking boots, warm clothes and some Alpaca jumpers she bought in Peru. To post all this to Australia would have cost quite a lot. Laurie's boss is from the USA, and his company has an office in LA. So Laurie thought Frances could post it to their office in LA and when he was next in the US he could pick it up and bring in home. Frances found a post office, but it was about to close, so she rushed in and found there was only one box left, a great big oversized box. So she plonked everything in it, bought a roll of tape on a dispenser and proceed to close off the box. She had problems with the tape and ended up wrapping and wrapping the tape around the box in a random haphazard way with the clock ticking and the postal workers announcing the shop was closing. She had trouble finding a place to write the address and so it all looked very messy and childish. But she did post it, last thing on Friday. On Monday it arrived at the LA offices of Laurie's work. He had meant to send them an email to let them know it was coming but he forgot! 
As the box was so big and everything was rattling around inside, and as it was so bizarrely address they thought it was a BOMB ! So it caused a big stir, but common sense prevailed and they opened the box. They had no idea why it had been sent there until Laurie remembered to send an email and the mystery was solved. As Laurie's boss had to travel to the US he agreed to bring all the stuff home.