It fits. The answer is almost certainly No (an honest mistake is far more likely, and nefarious activity wouldn't look like this anyway), and you can tell from the way they write (e.g. vastly exaggerating the import of the tracking info) that they deeply want this to be true.
I give it about 50/50 odds that a followup article shows up along the lines of, "they received the laptop and the tracking info for this package shows it coming straight from the warehouse nearby and this is clearly evidence that the NSA is screwing with USPS tracking data."
