If Only They Were Something Useful

7/9/25 New York Post:

"A California woman has received hundreds of huge Amazon packages she didn’t order after a cheap Chinese seller listed her San Jose home as its return address.

The woman — identified only as Kay — has been receiving the parcels for over a year now, and they’ve been arriving at such frequency, she’s had no choice but to stack them up in her driveway to maintain some semblance of order....

"The culprit is a China-based Amazon seller called Liusandedian, which peddles faux leather car seat covers that apparently fit few of the models they’re designed for — so customers by the hundreds have been sending the junk products back."

Sellers must supply either a return shipment coupon or a U.S. return address.  It appears that they decided it was cheaper to use Kay's address.  

For some time, we have been seeing behavior that makes absolutely no sense in a free market: shipping products that you cannot sell and you do not even attempt to get back for resale to someone for whom the product mightcwork; the Atacama Desert dumping of new Chinese-made clothes; the dumping of brand new cars on hillsides in China when an attempt to set up a cheap vehicle sharing scheme failed.

In each case, substantial capital has been invested in making and shipping stuff that makes no profit.  This reeks of a command and control economy with no feedback system.  China is destroying itself with actions like this that no free market system would tolerate. 

If these were items that had some salvage value, she could perhaps benefit from it.  But short of making faux animals, I see none.  I wonder if some enterprising American could figure out how to transform them into something useful