Wrong return address sends box of hidden drugs to Pulpfiction Books
Credit to Author: Stephanie Ip| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 22:33:51 +0000
Pulpfiction Books will buy your second-hand books but they won’t take your drugs.
“Shout out to the anonymous nitwit who used the Kits shop as the return address for their big insufficient-postage package of hard drugs,” read an update posted to the Vancouver store’s Twitter account on Monday afternoon.
“Come collect it from the VPD at any point.”
Owner Chris Brayshaw said the nondescript package, about the size of a DVD case, arrived to Pulpfiction’s Kitsilano store a few days ago, with a return address listed for the shop and a delivery address located across the country.
Shout out to the anonymous nitwit who used the Kits shop as the return address for their big insufficient-postage package of hard drugs. Come collect it from the VPD at any point.
“Nobody at the Kits store remembers mailing something out, it doesn’t look like anyone who’s ever worked here, doesn’t look like our packaging material,” said Brayshaw.
When no one claimed the package, Brayshaw said a staff member took the package to the post office on Monday morning and tried to figure out if the return address was incorrect or if numbers had been mixed up. When the post office was unable to match a possible return address, the staffer took the package back to Pulpfiction and opened it, hoping for a clue that could help track down the sender.
“We open it up and inside is a video game, in one of those plastic boxes,” said Brayshaw. “And it’s packed full of what I’m going to euphemistically call hard drugs.”
He said the staff member then promptly took the package to Vancouver Police and turned it in. Brayshaw couldn’t say with certainty with type of drugs was inside the package but did say the “reasonably sized quantity of … non-recreational drugs” was addressed for a location across the country.
“Let’s just say it was going on a long trip. It was going on a cross-Canada trip,” he said, declining to say exactly where the drugs were headed.
The bookstore, which buys and sells second-hand books, regularly finds money, occasionally naughty photos or even dried marijuana leaves slipped in between the pages of books dropped off for sale. The weirdest delivery, however, arrived two summers ago.
In 2017, a box about two shoeboxes high and wide was delivered to Pulpfiction, filled with what Brayshaw believes was human hair. That delivery was never called in to police but it was “enough to be a little disturbing,” said the owner.
While the drug delivery was played for a laugh online, Brayshaw said it was a stark reminder of the very real problems Vancouver faces.
“It just underlines that there are some pretty serious issues around addiction in this city that are not going away,” he said.
“If there is a lesson in this, it’s that it touches me and my staff much less severely than it touches other people in this city.
“It’s a pretty sober reminder that it’s, you know, a life-and-death situation for a lot of folks in this city and there have been a lot of, in my judgment, needless deaths as a result of contaminated drug supply, of people who are addicted and not able to access a clean and safe drug supply or treatment.”
Postmedia has reached out to Vancouver police for more details.