MAIL ORDER HOAX

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21541, 13 January 1932, Page 9

MAIL ORDER HOAX

GOODS FROM EVERYWHERE. An amazing practical joke has been played upon Mr W. A. Moore, of Darlington, England. He has received hundreds of pamphlets, letters, and parcels from firms in all parts of the country, apparently in response to letters sent in his name. Salesmen have called on Mr Moore to eell all manner of things, from electric fires to patent stair rods. Parcels have enclosed valuable goods with instructions to return or pay. They have varied from pills and dictionaries 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 in-, dined 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 joker is he has been very industrious, and must have ,epent considerable time and money in writing to hundreds of different firms all over the country.