A few days ago I received a small package, no more than two or three inches in any dimension. Although the package’s address was mine, the name on it was not. I looked up the name in the phone book, but there was no listing. I figured I would take the package to the post office this Saturday and let them try to figure it out.

Yesterday there was a note in my door from the woman whose name was on the package. Aha! I figured it out. She was probably a known felon who was aware that the police were monitoring her mail in search of a vial of poison?, a stolen diamond? To get around them, she sent the package to my address with an assumed name.

That may still be the case, but the explanation on the note and what I later found out when I met the woman was much more plausible if very much less dramatic.

Why was the address wrong? How did the woman find out? Why was the phone number unlisted (she did not request that) What the heck was in the package? As a hint, I was mistaken in assuming that the package was sent by mail.