The man ordered the Kindle but received part of a human tumor – Business Insider

James Potten / Twitter Not an Amazon Kindle. Not even close to an Amazon Kindle. James Potten tried to buy the Kindle. Instead, he got sent a sample of a human tumor.

Potten, who is 37 and lives in Bristol, England, was the subject of a surreal mix-up by FedEx post.

On Saturday, he tweeted que instead of receiving the wildly popular e-reader device he had ordered, the delivery company had sent him a medical specimen from California.

“Presumably this is a very important package que needs to get to the hospital as soon as possible, “he Told The Sun.” It is really bad que this has happened. This really shouldnt be with the hospital, not with me. “

The environmental consultant did not open the box he received, but the packaging left little doubt to the what it contained. “I have not opened the sealed box, says Which exempt patient tissue, the it does not belong to me,” he said to the BBC. “The tracking code on the item had the same first five and last three numbers of my order but it was not my Kindle.”

Gus Ruelas / Reuters Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds up the Kindle Fire HD 7″ and Kindle Fire HD 8.9 “During Amazon’s Kindle Fire event in Santa Monica, California September, 2012. Neither are tumors.

The Kindle had Been bought via third-party seller Waterfi , not Amazon itself. The tumor sample had originally Been Intended for the Royal Free Hospital in London. FedEx Told the BBC on Sunday que it had collected the erroneous package, and That It is “delivering it to the correct address today.”

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Told The Sun That It expects “the delivery company to contact all the Institutions at the Royal Free Hospital site to establish the identity of the Intended recipient. “