MAIL ORDER HOAX

Evening Star, Issue 21005, 20 January 1932, Page 9

MAIL ORDER HOAX

■>- GOODS FROM EVERYWHERE An amazing practical joke lias been played upon Mr W. A. Moore, of Darlington. England. He has received hundreds of pamphlets, - letters and parcels from firms in all parts p f the country, apparently in response to letters sent m Jus name. Salesmen have called on Mr Moore to sell all manner of thiijgs, from electno fires to patent stair rods.' Parcels have enclosed valuable goods with instructions to return or pay. They have varied from pills and dictwnanes to gramophone parts and fabric pattern books. • „„ Mr Moore has spent whole evenings burning literature, but the goods present a more difficult problem. He is not inclined to spend money and time on posting it back, and, of course, refuses to pay for what he does not want and did not order. Salesmen have come from all parts of the country, one stating that his firm had been asked to send six gas fires. Parcels and literature continue to pour in by every post. Whoever the joker is he has been very industrious, and must Have spent considerable time and money in writing to hundreds of different, firms all over the country..