Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/04/26/utah-kitty-plays-in-a-box-then-accidentally-gets-shipped-off-as-return-package-to-amazon-in-california-video.html
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Poor kitteh! Given how badly most packages are abused in transit, it’s nearly a miracle she survived. I hope she makes a full recovery from this ordeal. 
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…and she’s such a beauty, too!
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I think the TV station need to work on their captions:
Call me suspicious, but I suspect that she isn’t the cat that was found in the box.
Also:
And nobody has gone for the “puss and boots” headline?! Come on, you’re never going to get a more obvious chance for that.
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“Accidentally”.
Yeah, right…
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It somehow seems redundant to add an RF microchip when it, presumably, has several Galena cat whiskers.
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They shipped her back to Amazon, along with five pairs of work boots?
How did someone miss the chance to use the headline “Puss in boots” for this one?
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That is a good point. That someone had already made in this very thread.
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If great minds think alike, then I am forced to acknowledge that @Purplecat is a towering intellectual giant of our times. Diet, or regular?
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Flattery will get you everywhere. Though, hopefully not in a box.
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Came looking for Nermal saying just that…
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So, an Amazon employee opened a box WITH A RETURN ADDRESS ON IT and found a cat. And then sent it off in hopes a microchip would reveal its owner. And I presume, they then processed the boots for return to AN IDENTIFIED AMAZON ACCOUNT.
Great work, Sherlock!
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I’d be inclined to give the employee more credit than that:
Amazon’s statement on mistaken returns does not suggest much interest in dealing with reverse logistics anomalies and(while if it’s publicly available I can’t find it) I can’t imagine that the procedures for logistics employees smile on using company time and customer information to do compassionate things when there are metrics to be met. Depending on exactly how many steps are involved in receiving, unpacking, and processing the contents of a box the person who found the cat may also not have had their hands on the box with the origin address or the account details associated with the order.
Reading out the microchip certainly wasn’t necessary from the perspective of someone with all the information and an interest in using it; but it was a locally sensible option(especially if the cat was in a state where it needed a veterinary look-over anyway).
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Wonder if that’s completely cured this cat of box-jump-in-itis?
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Well, cats and boxes. What can I say?
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