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Shout out to the anonymous nitwit who used the Kits shop as the return address for their big insufficient-postage package of hard drugs. Come collect it from the VPD at any point. — Pulpfiction Books (@pfbvan) September 16, 2019

“Nobody at the Kits store remembers mailing something out, it doesn’t look like anyone who’s ever worked here, doesn’t look like our packaging material,” said Brayshaw.

When no one claimed the package, Brayshaw said a staff member took the package to the post office on Monday morning and tried to figure out if the return address was incorrect or if numbers had been mixed up. When the post office was unable to match a possible return address, the staffer took the package back to Pulpfiction and opened it, hoping for a clue that could help track down the sender.

“We open it up and inside is a video game, in one of those plastic boxes,” said Brayshaw. “And it’s packed full of what I’m going to euphemistically call hard drugs.”

He said the staff member then promptly took the package to Vancouver Police and turned it in. Brayshaw couldn’t say with certainty with type of drugs was inside the package but did say the “reasonably sized quantity of … non-recreational drugs” was addressed for a location across the country.

“Let’s just say it was going on a long trip. It was going on a cross-Canada trip,” he said, declining to say exactly where the drugs were headed.

The bookstore, which buys and sells second-hand books, regularly finds money, occasionally naughty photos or even dried marijuana leaves slipped in between the pages of books dropped off for sale. The weirdest delivery, however, arrived two summers ago.

In 2017, a box about two shoeboxes high and wide was delivered to Pulpfiction, filled with what Brayshaw believes was human hair. That delivery was never called in to police but it was “enough to be a little disturbing,” said the owner.