Could you pass this test?

Do the local lords frequently do stuff like this as a test of character of their serfs where this lady lives?

Honestly, unless you can quickly find who it belongs to, you should just eat it. If it's addressed to your nextdoor neighbor and you can easily get it to them, fine. If they don't know you enough to trust you, they at least know where you live and know that you're probably not messing with them.

But think about it. Let's say you order a cheesecake and it gets delivered to a random stranger's house. They call you up and tell you that they have your cake. Would you still want that cheesecake, after it had been in some randos house? You have no way of knowing what they may have done to it. And you can almost certainly get a replacement easily ordered.

So really, unless it was my neighbor's cake, I would just eat it. You can't legally be billed for any unsolicited goods mailed to your house, and I didn't order the cake. I'm not going to have to pay for it. And even if I did succeed in tracking down some complete stranger to give them the cake, they're likely to just throw it in the trash. Really, at that point, I'm the only one likely to actually eat the cake at all. So why let it go to waste? I'm eating that cake!

You have no way of knowing what they may have done to it
that's the big difference between food items and other packages. if we're close enough we'll pop over and deliver a misdelivered parcel to the neighbors, but i'm in a fortunate enough economic situation where I don't have to think about stealing someone else's delivery. we saved a husband with his wife's birthday present a few years ago, which got delivered to our house during their party. i can only imagine the feeling of watching for a delivery that will save your bacon and your phone binging that it's there and having forty witnesses that no, the van did not even drive by. they had good margaritas.

Ok Rachel, pass me a fork. We have to down this thing before Joey gets home.

pulls fork from shirt pocket naturally
- So, what are we having?
- One of my all-time favorite Joey moments

While in college I went back home for the weekend and when I came back there was a package of homemade cookies on the table and my roommates said help myself. I pick up the box and as I start eating the last cookie the front doorbell rings. Its a guy saying he had a package accidentally delivered to his house that had his perscription glasses and cookies his mother baked for him. As I'm chewing I'm like, "Oh shit, sorry" and hand him the box with his glasses and no cookies... My roommates were assholes.

It’s in the mail and not refrigerated. How processed is that cheesecake that it’s stable at room temp? Or is it?

Ice packs in the box. A lot of food subscription delivery service packages look like this. The inside has an extra layer of thicker paper to resist condensation
The fancy ones use dry ice instead of regular
- I’m aware, but it’s still time sensitive. Either way, this box isn’t tempting.
Judging by the medications I've received, it's probably a much smaller cheesecake than that box suggests, and is still icy cold, if not fully frozen. Packed in layers of ice packs and sealed in a thick Styrofoam box. OP has at least another 24 hours to find the recipient, longer if they put the whole box in their fridge. They could also remove just the cheesecake and refrigerate it, while checking the packing slip for more information, but they would need supreme willpower.
It’s a cheese cake from Junior’s. They’re packed with dry ice.

The box is trying out a pet name

This side up please, Cheesecake

Easily:

Not a fan of cheesecakes.
Eating something that really needs to be refrigerated but stayed in carton box in who knows what conditions for a who knows how long?
Boxes are reusable. So there might be kids socks and a yellow sweater inside.
Well, it belongs to someone else...

That's what ice packs are for.
By the size of this box it's likely a styrofoam cooler inside, with ice packs inside that, and the cheesecake was frozen to 10 below. AND... it would be shipped overnight.
You really think a bakery wouldn't know how to ship a cheesecake?
Though #3 is compelling
- You really think a bakery wouldn’t know how to ship a cheesecake?
  I mean, depends on the bakery
- Postservice: Sorry, we weren't able to deliver your package yesterday, so we'll try next Monday.
An intact packing list would likely indicate it’s not been reused.
- No. Just take an old cheesecake box with socks to the postoffice and they'll stick a new sticker. Or maybe in your country it is forbidden to use non-standard and non-new boxes in postoffices?

Surely you would need to open it, and then test any recipient listed on the outside, with describing the intended cheesecake flavour.

So much plastic waste for such a fleeting amount of happiness :(

That's cardboard
- Inside the cardboard is a shitload of styrofoam and plastic-lined ice packs.

Nope.

Also, free cheesecake!!!

Cheesecake Truck

Just like the exploding glitter-bomb guy to try to find more victims.

'remove from package'.

i'd get that one correct.

'upon arrival'.

that one too.

'refrigerate'

well, only as necessary until it's gone. i'd get half credit for that one.

so, overall, i'd still 'pass'.. but hey, "c's get degrees"

Cheesecake is just the best