Amazon Sends Chabad Preschool Hundreds of Toys it Didn’t Order

New York Post

It’s Hanukkah in the summer.

A preschool at a Yorkville Chabad center has received an endless deluge of cardboard Amazon boxes containing pricey puzzles and water slides — despite no one on staff ordering the toys.

The mystery presents first arrived at Alef Bet Preschool on East 92nd Street every couple of days in June, and over the coming months, the volume and size of the gifts ramped up. By August, deliverymen were dropping off several 27-pound boxes daily each holding at least 50 puzzles or a few water slides decorated with the American flag. The preschool estimated that it received maybe 1,000 items altogether.

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One Comment

  • Shliach

    Why not accept it (or don’t) graciously?
    Why the need to look ungrateful in the eyes of the world???

    Look at the comments on the Post’s website, horrific.