It's happened to me twice. My check went to a lady with her address as 1161 and I'm 1661. She looked me up and phoned to apologize that she had opened it in error. I went to her home to pick it up and she had a man doing handyman work. He is now my handyman too.
Then my next door neighbors mail was delivered to me and I just used my mail slicer to open it. Never thought to flip it over to see the address. It was personal information from his financial advisor. I was embarrassed that I had opened it, but I delivered it to them and apologized for opening it. They were new neighbors and they understood. Couldn't ask for better neighbors.
Word of caution, look at address before opening your mail.
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