Hillcrest man Scott Christie waited six weeks for his parcel, which was worth over $100, to arrive from America.
But after the Postie showed up empty handed, he was surprised to see it again when a good samaritan rescued it and returned it to him that same day.
“I’d seen on my Australia Post app that it was being delivered today and when the delivery guy turned up, he had a parcel for my wife but mine was nowhere to be found,” Mr Christie said.
“(The Postie) said ‘yours is definitely in here somewhere because it got scanned into the van, I just can’t find it but when I do, I’ll come back’ but he never did.”
That’s when a stranger who happened to be in the right place at the right time entered the picture.
Mr Christie said he didn’t think anything was out of the ordinary when he noticed someone outside heading towards his letterbox, but when saw the stranger get into an unbranded vehicle, he became suspicious.
“I was in my lounge room working on my computer and I saw someone outside near the letterbox and I thought it was just someone delivering junk mail or something,” Mr Christie said.
“I went out there and I saw them drive off and I missed them.”
Mr Christie’s suspicions turned to gratitude when he discovered his missing parcel had been delivered with a note.
The note read: “I found your parcel on the side of the road in Whitcomb St, have let Australia Post know, cheers, Chez.”
Filled with appreciation, the 42-year-old retail specialist captured an image of the signed note and took it to social media to track down and thank his rescuer.
Not long after, a comment popped up on Mr Christie’s post from Tenisha Coates– Chez’s daughter, who said she was glad he got his parcel “safe and sound”.
Mr Christie said he is grateful for a selfless gesture and it’s wonderful that there are people in the community who are willing to take the time and effort to do the right thing, especially because this hasn’t always been the case.
“I found it in the mailbox with a note and I put it on the 4118 Community Facebook page because for someone to come across it and find it and put it in my letterbox, it restored a bit of my faith in humanity,” Mr Christie said.
“I had a parcel that I sent to a friend of mine down in Sydney with a courier and they delivered it to the wrong house and we tried to get the details of where it ended up, and didn’t, and he ended up finding the item I sent him in an Op-shop.
“It’s good to know that there’s people out there that still do the right thing.
“I’m glad that her daughter saw the post and I was actually able to thank her–I just think the world needs more people like Chez.”
