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TIFU by mailing a stranger my mom's ultrasounds along with the t-shirt they bought from me

I sometimes sell and buy clothes on Vinted (if you don't know it, it's an online second hand platform) and it's pretty handy. I can get rid of my old clothes and get new ones sustainably.

Well, some girl bought a t-shirt I listed. She's nice, payed quickly and I promised to send it off as soon as possible. When I went to pack it, I realized I'm out of envelopes and since my mom recently reorganized almost everything in the house I couldn't find our stash of envelopes and empty packages, so I asked her about it. She told me to check next to the printer and sure enough, there's a few empty envelopes. I take one, pack the t-shirt up, send it off the next day, everything's fine.

Today the girl texts me "Hey, I assume you're gonna need those back?" and adds a picture. They're two pages of ultrasounds. I'm like "huh, that was an empty envelope, what kind of scam is this?" Then I check the actual data on the ultrasounds and notice that it definitely says my birth year, my mom's gynecologist and the place it was taken and I think to myself, oh shit, those are actually mine. No idea how I missed them but yep, those two big pages of ultrasound pictures of pre-birth me are definitely from me.

It all ended up being fine, the girl brought them to the post office today and she was nice about it, but it definitely is embarrassing. My mom's a bit salty about it but doesn't think it's a big issue, which I'm happy about. But yeah, definitely check your envelopes when you're shipping anything, especially when you're reusing them.

TL;DR: Forgot to check the envelope when mailing someone a t-shirt and accidentally sent them ultrasounds of me in my mom's belly along with it.

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