Ok So--Lets suppose...
Dec. 21st Amber contacts Byrd. Byrd runs a check and tells Amber Snott's Modesto Address.
Dec.22ndAM Amber decides to Fed-Ex a X-Mas photo to Snott so he'll have her pic. before he leaves for Maine the next day.. They talk on the phone. She acts 'ditsy' and tells Snott she found 'this other address' and mistakenly Fed-Ex'ed her photo there (Modesto). Amber plays it off as well so I got the wrong address it will be returned to me. Scott plays it cool too.
Meantime Snott Panicks Dec. 23rdAM Snott comes home (Covena) briefly @10:00 to pick up a Fed-Ex. (He misses it or Snott thinks it never arrived) Three hours later, Snott calls Amber from an airport in Sacramento, telling her he is on his way to Kennebunkport, Maine. He travels all the way to Sacramento to call Amber, to reinforce the LIE that he lives in Sacramento, Not knowing for sure that she was on to him. He could have used one of his numerous cell phones to call her. Instead, he went out of his way to use a phone with a Sacramento AC for a reason..
In the mean time. Laci retrieves the package before Snott gets back and doesn't mention it to Scott all day even at Salon. Later (after 8:30 PM on the 23rd) Laci opens it and the S*** hit the fan..
This could have happened...
I think it could easily have happened that way.
But even more: Scott was talking to Amber so much, even in Carmel, and one wonders if Laci noticed his phone calls while there. I mean, maybe it was there that she first noticed that he might be cheating.
The maid did say Scott came "back" to the house at 10 a.m. on the 23rd, to get a Fed Ex. I assumed he had successfully gotten it... ? If he hadn't gotten it at that time, but knew that Amber had sent this "bomb" to Modesto, wouldn't he have stayed glued to the house, so he could quickly intercept it? ("Just a customer sending something, dear.")