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Originally Posted by PatNY
The law in PA that you referenced appears to cover only misdeliveries. The attorney general's website for Pennsylvania confirms that consumers in that state who receive unsolicited merchandise addressed to them are not required to return the items:
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The portion of the PA AG's website you are linking to does not deal with deliveries
by mistake. It deals with intentional deliveries under a "negative option" deal, where they deliberately mail you a product, and then obligate you for a further purchase if you keep it. Entirely different notion.
The concept of mistake deals with a product that is sent to the wrong location, or (as in this case) in an incorrect amount. Best Buy is not attempting to get you to buy five iPads by sending them to you; they just screwed up and sent five, when you only ordered one. The extra four are goods delivered by mistake, not as an attempt to obligate you to pay for them in the future. The PA law requires that you make an attempt to return them to the rightful owner; if they refuse or don't respond, then the items belong to you.
Additionally, the portion of the USPS website you linked to again deals with things that were deliberately sent to you, and states that you are not obligated to pay for them. It does not deal with things delivered by mistake at all.