Thursday, July 17, 2008

Summertime Santa: Family's stolen gifts returned

It sounds like an urban myth. But it’s true.

The phone rang for Sue Schriener in Vancouver, Wash. Costco was on the line.

The conversation went something like this:

“Remember those Christmas gifts you sent to Jen and Corey Sanderford of Tacoma last December? We’ve found them. And we’d like to return them.”

The king-size mattress-topper box full of presents, snatched by thieves from the Sanderfords’ North End home, somehow wound up as returned merchandise at the Gig Harbor Costco.

Once employees discovered that the box contained a family’s Christmas gifts instead of a mattress topper, workers went on the hunt to locate the recipients

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