Wednesday, Jan 30:

We have the first clue in the case.

Fedex never got back to me (why did I instinctively type 'of course'?), so I called again today. Vanessa, who took the call, said the trace they had done involved querying the driver, who affirmed that he had delivered the package.

Duh. But where had he delivered it?

"To your house, 27 [Ourstreet], Montclair. A white house next to a blue house."

Aha! We don't live next to a blue house!

After promising to send a note to the Fairfield center and let the driver know that we live in a white house between another white house and a yellow one, Vanessa advised me that I'd hear back from them this morning (I'm writing this at 2:30 p.m. and haven't heard anything, but that just about goes without saying).

As it happens, number 23 is a blue house, and so I visited number 21 (no one home and no package lying about the premises) and left a message about the N810.

Perhaps the driver misread the 7 as a 1?

I hope to learn from our neighbors this evening if they took in a package they hadn't realized was misdelivered. With two really young children, they might not have bothered to open an unexpected delivery yet.

Well, at least I can hope.