Obvious part first, throwaway account.
Long story short I worked last year remotely for a company in a different country, a different continent even. They shipped out some equipment for me including a nice laptop, a big monitor and some accessories. I, along with almost 100 others, were abruptly let go from our positions at the start of summer due to “the economy” and the company downsizing. They told us via zoom call and cut off our access to everything we were working on on the spot. I did not expect it at all, I was valued by my entire team. I was asked to return all of this equipment and fill out a form saying I would do so which I did. However, a while went by and I never received instructions or follow through on how to do so. I packaged everything up and waited for them to give me a shipping label or instructions on where to go and how to ship it back (they said they would cover the cost of shipping) and after several back and forth emails discussing dimensions of the boxes, box contents etc, communication just flatlined. They responded about a month later apologizing saying they were having some logistics issues and would get back to me with instructions on how to ship everything back. Original layoff was about 5 months ago and that last communication on their behalf was over 3 months ago at this point. Should I just keep it and ghost them? I haven't been using the laptop at all and its just sitting in its box in my closet but I recently decided to use the monitor as a second monitor until I hear back. I would honestly sell the laptop if I could since I don't need it but could use the cash.
What do you think?
If this helps establish context most of their employees are located geographically much closer to their headquarters but I'm significantly further away & overseas. Maybe they saw the shipping costs and decided not to pursue it?