These are the boxes in which they ship them to retails stores. Possibilities therefore include: -individual knows, or is, an Apple employee -individual knows, or is, a reseller and the employees put devices back in the shipping box for transport convenience -individual knows, or is, an employee at a third party retailer/reseller -individual knows, or is, a person employed at some kind of distribution point

Among other possibilities. From what I know, it’s very unlikely that this was a mistake. After all, this is the kind of bullshit that people with TikTok would subject other TikTokToddlers to just for the views.