Shaving Inches off a Queen

When my daughter left in the U-Haul for NYC, she had a new queen-size mattress and sheets for the platform bed that was in her mostly-furnished apartment.  It was touch and go that the mattress arrived from Overstock before she left, but it had come and it was on the truck.

She arrived to find the landlord had been mistaken about the size of the platform.  It was in fact a double, not a queen.  A few inches make all the difference in the world when it comes to some things, like mattresses.

Her brand new Overstock mattress is not returnable, despite the fact that her landlord offered to pay for shipping.  So the question of liability looms large.  She has gone ahead and purchased a mattress that will fit on the platform, but what happens to the queen-size mattress that has never been removed from the shrink-wrap?  

It seems to me she should just make a gift of it to him and let him figure it out, at the same time deducting the cost of the second new mattress from her first month’s rent.

I’m sure getting a good night’s sleep is high on her list of priorities after her first full week of nurse practitioner training.  I hope it all works out.