TORONTO -- A Toronto man says Canada Post recently delivered to him a package that he ordered online nearly eight years ago.
After a Canada Post delivery person rang his doorbell on May 6, Elliot Berinstein said he found a package from the online retailer Well.ca sitting on his doorstep.
Berinstein said he was initially confused because he hadn鈥檛 ordered anything from the e-commerce site in years. When he opened it, however, it all began to make sense.
鈥淚 opened it and inside was an invoice from 2012 and it was a tube of Brylcream I ordered in 2012,鈥� he told CTVNews.ca during a telephone interview on Tuesday.
鈥淚 started laughing because I thought it was pretty funny that it came eight years later.鈥�
At the time of his initial order, Berinstein said he had been living in Ottawa and the hair cream never arrived at his address there. He said he contacted Well.ca and they agreed to ship the product again to his home in Toronto because he thought it might be easier.
鈥淚t didn鈥檛 come again and I鈥檓 like 鈥極K, this isn鈥檛 worth the headache鈥� so I just forgot about it,鈥� he said.
Berinstein said he didn鈥檛 follow-up with Canada Post to see if the national mail operator had received the item for delivery or if there was an accompanying tracking number.
He said he was experimenting with different hair products at the time and the cream was only $5 so he didn鈥檛 worry about it.
In an email to CTVNews.ca on Tuesday, a Canada Post spokesperson said they would investigate the delivery further.
鈥淭his is certainly a unique situation and we can only speculate at this point as to what may have happened,鈥� the email read.
CTVNews.ca also reached out to Well.ca for information on Berinstein鈥檚 order, but did not hear back by the time of publication.
While Berinstein found humour in the late delivery, and even shared , he said the hair cream itself no longer appears to be usable.
鈥淲hen I opened it, it was bright yellow, and when I Googled it, I鈥檝e never used it before, it seemed like it was supposed to be white so I didn鈥檛 try it,鈥� he explained.
Berinstein said it鈥檚 unfortunate the hair cream appears to be past its prime because he鈥檚 overdue for a haircut as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and he could use a new styling cream.
