That's actually what happened to one anonymous college student, who was sent pieces of an eight-part weather drone by the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, and uploaded pictures of it on Imgur and Reddit under the headline: "I think I just got a drone in the mail."

You know how it goes: You're minding your own business, living your life, and then one day, you get a $350,000 drone randomly mailed to you.

"It came in this box by itself, the cardboard box was the thing that I actually ordered."

"I guess this controls it. Did I just get a drone in the mail?"

The parts were mailed to the man by the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, which told Motherboard that the delivery appears to be a UPS error.

"We sent one of our Puma unmanned aircraft systems to Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary in Massachusetts," said David Miller, a spokesperson for NOAA. "We sent a set of about eight boxes for this one aircraft system, and one was misdelivered by UPS. We're working with UPS to find it."

Miller said that seven boxes sent from NOAA arrived safely in Massachusetts. He believes the error was UPS's, not NOAA's.

"I can tell you that it didn't come from us addressed to him," he said.