A woman on Reddit said it started as a small favor at work. A coworker told her he was having issues receiving mail at his current place and asked if he could have a few things sent to her address temporarily. She said it didn’t seem like a big deal. He wasn’t asking to move in, just to receive some packages.
According to her post, it worked fine at first. A few envelopes showed up, then a couple of small packages. He would pick them up quickly, thank her, and leave. There were no issues.
Then the volume changed.
She said more mail started arriving—larger packages, more frequent deliveries, and sometimes multiple items in a single day. It started to feel less like a temporary favor and more like something ongoing.
She asked him about it.
He told her it was just a short-term situation and that he would stop soon. She said she felt uneasy but didn’t push it too hard at the time.
Then one day, there was a knock at her door.
When she opened it, police officers were standing there asking for her coworker by name.
She said her stomach dropped.
According to her post, the officers explained they were trying to locate him in connection with an ongoing investigation. They had traced activity back to her address because of the volume of mail and packages being sent there.
She told them he didn’t live there.
They asked how he was connected to the address, and she had to explain the arrangement. That’s when she realized how it looked from the outside—his name tied to her home, repeated deliveries, and no clear explanation.
After that, everything changed.
She said she immediately contacted her coworker and told him to stop using her address. He tried to downplay the situation and said it wasn’t serious, but she wasn’t willing to take the risk anymore.
More packages kept arriving.
At that point, she refused to accept them and started returning everything she could. She also documented the situation in case she needed to prove she wasn’t involved.
The relationship at work didn’t recover.
She said things became tense, and eventually, he stopped speaking to her altogether. She never got a full explanation about what he had been doing or why he needed to use her address in the first place.
By the end of her post, she said the part that stuck with her wasn’t just the police showing up—it was how quickly a simple favor turned into something that involved law enforcement. What started as helping a coworker ended with her having to explain why his name was tied to her home in the first place.
Read the original Reddit story here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/17c2y8k/coworker_using_address_police_show_up/
