A New York man got a package from a funeral home in the mail. Inside were the cremated remains of a man he'd never met.

• A New York musician found the cremated remains of a man he'd never met in his mailbox.
• 'It's just sort of shocking,' Hamilton Leithauser told ABC 7. 
• The New York Post later tracked down the man's son, after the ashes were returned to a funeral home. 

When New York musician Hamilton Leithauser made a routine check of his mail last week, he was stunned by a package containing the ashes of a man he had never met. 

"It's just sort of shocking. I'm like, 'What am I supposed to do with these?" Leithauser told The New York Post. "This was a person. You have to show a little respect."