NAPERVILLE, IL — An unidentified package addressed to Derek Hollis, 41, of Naperville began its journey from a fulfillment center in Sparks, Nevada, last Tuesday, and Hollis — who ordered nothing — has been tracking it in real time ever since.

The package, described in shipping notifications only as “1 item,” cleared a Memphis sorting facility Wednesday morning, experienced an unexplained 14-hour delay in Louisville, and is currently listed as “out for delivery,” a status it has held since Friday. Hollis has checked the tracking page 31 times in the past 72 hours.

“At first I thought it was a mistake,” said Hollis, who has since named the package Gerald. “But Gerald has been through a lot. Louisville nearly broke him. I’m not going to abandon him now.”

“I don’t know what’s in it. I don’t know who sent it. I just know it’s been in a truck since Thursday and I feel responsible for it.”

Hollis’s wife, Pamela Hollis, 39, confirmed she also ordered nothing and has asked her husband to “let it go” twice, which he has been unable to do. The couple’s actual Amazon order from three weeks ago — a replacement shower head — remains listed as “processing.”

Logistics analyst Courtney Farwell, 36, told reporters the notification was likely a carrier data mismatch. “Somebody’s real package is out there,” she said. “And someone is not tracking it nearly as carefully as Mr. Hollis is.”

At press time, Gerald had been delivered to a neighbor two doors down, and Hollis was standing on the porch unsure whether to knock.