Determined to reclaim control, the man turns each unwanted confirmation into a subtle act of defiance—rerouting deliveries miles away, reshaping the stranger’s plans without confrontation. Behind every email lies an untold story, a connection forged in silence and curiosity, waiting to unravel.
So pretty much, there’s this guy who keeps ordering things with my email. He isn’t using any other personal information of mine so i don’t think it’s a privacy concern.
So back to the point, I will occasionally get emails from random websites about an order confirmation. I’ve never heard of most of those websites and I know for a fact none of my family members used my email to buy something.
With most emails, there’s a number, name and an address (I’m assuming it’s the persons address) attached. I’ve tried texting the number and even calling but I’ve never gotten an answer.
I’d always get emails from ups to confirm the pickup/drop off area. Ever since I’ve gotten the emails, I always change the location for delivery. So instead of it being delivered at his doorstep, it gets shipped to a post office 20 miles away.
He can’t change that since like I said, it’s all attached to my email.
I recently got an email from the guy and turns out, the reason he keeps writing my email is because his and mine are both almost identical. (Imagine mine is “abc” his is “acb”) so he always switches one letter therefore I get the emails.
In his email, he calls me an asshole for making the pickup so far. When I asked him why can’t he just use his own email he said: It’s always a typo I do and I don’t feel like fixing it because it takes too much time.
I’m not even joking, that’s exactly what he said.
So AITA for sabotaging this guys packages?
Conclusion
The original poster (OP) is facing repeated, unwanted order confirmations due to a minor email address mix-up with another individual. Feeling inconvenienced and frustrated by the other person’s refusal to correct their consistent typo, the OP resorted to actively interfering with the delivery logistics, causing the packages to be redirected far away.
Is the OP justified in intentionally disrupting the deliveries as a response to the neighbor’s laziness and refusal to correct a simple typo, or did this action cross a line into unnecessary sabotage against a problem that could have been solved via simple communication?
Here’s how people reacted:
There is a family 7 states away from me with an email that is 1 character off from mine.
After the first few times the husband ordered, I searched and located him. Found a number and called. He worked in a specific gov5agency and I could see the orders. I let him know and forwarded the emails to his real email so he could fix it.
A few years later, it happened again. This time the wife. I found her on fb and reached out. I’m sure it was odd, but we had a good laugh over it.
Every now and then I get an email for them. I just forward it to the correct email with a quick note saying hi and that I didn’t want them to miss the email. They respond with a thank you and generally correct that accountt.
It’s kind of neat. When we chatted, we discovered a few things in common. Maybe we’ll meet one day. Maybe not. But I would hope if I made the mistake that someone would help me as I’ve helped them.
This is so petty lmao. You know you’re wrong for that.
Honestly, I don’t see how this is that big of an inconvenience to you, just delete the confirmation emails. In either case it really only hurts the other person anyway. If he doesn’t receive his item it’ll be more annoying for him to resolve the situation if he doesn’t have the confirmation email.
His mix up doesn’t have any real impact on you as far as I can tell so you can’t really justify going out of your way to redirect his packages. His response/excuse to you also makes him a jerk though.
I am also an IT Security guy, so I never login as these people, because it is against the law in the US. I usually report the error, and most of the time, the company will delete the account, or remove the email address.
I have similar problems with at least one person who uses my email address regularly, and for all sorts of things. I don’t know why this person does it, but I’ve changed so many things on said person that one would think it would be obvious that using my email address is more trouble than it is worth.
I changed her (His? Their?) cable TV billing date again today, and I set her cable box to record a couple of new shows.
I’ve been getting this other person’s emails for a couple of years, and it’s pretty annoying sometimes. They’re sometimes from her work, sometimes from her friends, and most gallingly, from businesses for accounts and orders that *she set up herself*. How TF do you not know your own email address? I once got an email for a salon account for her and I set her up for a Brazilian, a lip wax, and back wax.
However, his reaction is dickish though understandable based on your dick move.
NTA. This dude knows he does it and he makes a conscious choice to not fix it. You’re not his secretary; it’s not your job to mind his emails.
KEEP SENDING PACKAGES FAR AWAY until he gives up and change his email. I think there is no way to file a complaint against you since you have email. So do it !
NTA
Yes, this other person could easily fix the email they enter. It’s a trivial thing to do and takes very little time.
Do you know what takes less time? DELETING THE EMAIL NOTIFICATION!!
While you technically aren’t break the law, you are skirting right up to the edge. Just start cancelling the orders. He’ll get the point.
Send it 50 miles away next time.
How unbelievably lazy of him. And why wouldn’t you want to have access to when your parcel is arriving?