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by gustavo_duarte 5285 days ago
Agreed, but the charity bit was a special touch:

  In the spirit of the season, you might consider 
  donating it to the charity of your choice
Beats a standard "you keep it" corporate letter.
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Just staying, our literally written policy was "Offer DDD": donate, destroy, or "dispose of" (a polite euphemism for "You keep it") the misshipped item. I would have added the Christmas flourish if I were saying it in December, too, but the options would have been the same in July. (n.b. The business does not care what you do. We want to convey, in the politest possible way, that we both don't want it and don't want to talk to you about it.)