We recently reported on a rash of strange stories from around the United States and England: People receiving unsolicited packages in the mail from China.. packages containing seeds, or jewelry and seeds.

A Coal Speaker reader was kind of enough to send information a few days ago about a package she received in the mail from China..

She reported that it was not seeds, but instead jewelry that arrived at her home..

Credit cards and bank statements were clear: No evidence of any strange charges on her account.. but there it was.. a bracelet from China from the address:

Mai Shu Lang
A5, dasha industrial zone avenue,
wufeng 3rd road
shunde, FOSHAN, GUANGDONG, 529300
CHINA
And a phone number: 8613128680000

Some further research into the information of the sender garners some results.

Back in December 2019, a website called China Postal Tracking had a message from someone who stated,

 Yes I received a clean up sofa Cloud made with magnets pad in the mail today I have no idea why or but this is trying to figure out why this was sent to me and you have my phone number address and everything on the outside of the package.

At that point, many other commenters on the original post already reported receiving packages from China without warning, or without ordering anything.

Those comments began piling up in December, and just this past month they continued.. one person asked this in June 2020:

 I also received a package in a red box from china. It was a bracelet in the red box. Other then not ordering this , with the epidemic going on , is the chance of the virus on the package?

Someone else reported receiving a metal fork and spoon.

And now seeds…

What about the phone number in the address?

No luck.. 8613128680000 in China is: +86-131-28680000 .. but it is a mobile number. Attempts to call that number were futile, as the call was not able to be connected.

The address yields no results, either.

But we know this: The Shunde District, also known as Shuntak, is a district of the city of Foshan, Guangdong province, located in the Pearl River Delta. Once a traditional agricultural county, it has become one of the most affluent counties in Guangdong and mainland China. Since 2009, it is administrated independently of Foshan city, answerable directly to the Guangdong provincial government

And.. the SARS epidemic started in Shunde, with 8.000 infections and 800 deaths worldwide.

Not saying there is a connection! Just wild, no?

 

And like that.. we are back to where we started.

Or are we?

Maybe history can fill in some gaps on why so many are getting these items and strange seeds..

Dateline November 2017: FORBES reported:

Americans Are Receiving Unordered Parcels From Chinese E-Criminals — And Can’t Do Anything To Stop Them

At that time, Wade Shepard reported this:

Heaven McGeehan awoke one morning to find an unexpected package from China delivered to her Pennsylvania home. It was a small epacket — a special subsidized shipping option that the USPS offers Chinese merchants, effectively enabling them to ship a parcel from China to the U.S. for less than it costs to send that same parcel domestically — and when she opened it she found a small handful of black hair ties with cheap plastic hearts that had the word “Phoenix” emblazoned upon them.

She was bewildered. The package was clearly addressed to her — her name was correct and so was her address — but she wasn’t the one who placed the order and had no idea why someone in China would send it to her.

Then the following day it happened again: another unordered package from China arrived containing the same item. Then it happened again the following day, and again, and again, and again without end until the small, unsolicited parcels began piling up in McGeehan’s home.

 

and more…….

 

Chinese agents shipping ridiculous amounts of hair ties to McGeehan is merely an unscrupulous way for them to fraudulently boost sales and obtain positive feedback for their clients’ products on e-commerce sites.

Basically, a “brushing” firm somehow got hold of McGeehan’s name and address — she imagines this happened from placing legitimate orders on AliExpress, the international wing of China’s Alibaba — and then created user profiles for “her” on the e-commerce sites that they wish to have higher sales ratings and favorable reviews on. They then shop for orders via the fake account, compare prices, and mimic everything an actual customer would do, before finally making a purchase from their client’s store. When delivery is confirmed, they then leave positive reviews that appear to the e-commerce platform as “verified.”

And could that be it?

All of these conspiracy theories of ‘little shops of horrors’ being planned by Chinese people all out the window? All of these rumors of viruses and discontent being spread just bunk?

Just a “brushing firm” getting information to ship orders from China to people not expecting a package … all just for a positive review?

It’s 2020.. we’d expect something a little more exciting than that…

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