Dear Annie: I’m writing in response to “Peeved by Packages,” whose new neighbor kept having packages sent to their and other people’s addresses and turned hostile when confronted about it. I had a neighbor doing something very similar, and it turned out to be mail fraud.

They had packages and bills sent to our address, then claimed they never received them. For packages, they often got replacements or refunds while keeping the originals. They also weren’t paying their bills.

We learned this when we stopped hand-delivering their packages and began contacting the companies directly. Many were small Etsy shops and family businesses, so it was especially sad to see them getting scammed. We also notified the postal service and FedEx, who stopped delivering the packages to our house. Once we

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