Daily Casefile · Forensic
The Parcels of Fenwick Cross
≈ 4 min
On the morning of Friday, 11 July 2026, postmistress Dora Lumb discovered that a registered parcel containing a rare first-edition book — sent by collector Neville Fitch to an auction house in Edinburgh — had been swapped for a box of packing paper. A substitute parcel bearing the correct label was found on the outgoing shelf, its contents worthless. Your task is to reconstruct the exact sequence of events in the sorting room from the time the genuine parcel arrived to the moment the substitution was discovered, using the four forensic clues recovered by the attending investigator.
The scene
The sorting room and front counter of Fenwick Cross Village Post Office, present day
The events
- Genuine parcel removed and substitute left in its place
- Afternoon courier signs for outgoing registered parcels
- Genuine parcel logged at the front counter
- Substitute parcel wrapped and labelled in the sorting room
- Postmistress Dora Lumb discovers the substitution
- Parcel placed on the outgoing registered shelf
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This case first aired on July 14, 2026. A fresh forensic runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.