Whats the strangest thing you've ever recieved through the post?

This morning my lovely mum took me by surprise... I received a parcel from her containing - wait for it - a tour guide for New Zealand, a packet of multivitamins, a bar of diary milk, three fruit teabags, a copy of take a break from November last year, a recipe for making sponge cake in a microwave (helpfully annotated with 'I know you're on a diet, but what about when you invite people home for tea?' :P ), a photograph of my cat (Mr Kipling) and a small trial size box of Lavender scented soap powder. Bless her, the mad old bat :D <sniff> I feel really home sick now :(

It reminded me of when I was in the first year of my degree and one lad's mum sent him a huge block of cheese through the post! :bigsmile: Did anyone get random food parcels from their parents when they were students? Or a rather odd birthday gift...?

awwww - your mum sounds lovely! makes me feel a bit guilty that mine lives so near and I dont go see her enough (but that's a topic for a whole new thread of its own...:rolleyes: )

Now then my dear miss - PM me if you fancy a whirl round the Millenium Gallery sometime tomorrow - have free tickets so no expense required (can't believe I am skint again so soon after being paid...:confused: ) Cant have you feeling homesick!

Have never received an interesting parcel that I can think of - last good one was my ant farm from
www.iwantoneofthose.com/CategoryList.aspx?list=search&category=ants&language=en-GB

- had to send coupon off for ants and got them days later in a little pot in the post. The leaflet said that trying to get them from the pot into their new house might be tricky as dem critters can sure move fast, so to put the pot in the fridge for ten mins or so (the cold apparently makes them drowsy). Trouble is me and youngest forgot so 2 hours later retrieved ant pot from between cheese and yoghurts to find that half of my babies had undergone cryogenics. Put remaining (chilly) ants in and left them to work away at their tunnel building. Me and nature? We're like THAT!

Never rec'd anything as such..

However on an old work Forum/Message Board etc the topic of the day was chocolate, everyone said what theirs was etc etc..

Next day I had a Chunky KitKat (which was my fave at the time) delivered by Internal Mail :clap: :banana:

Best parcel I can think of was delivered to my Dad!

He got a note through his door from Royal Mail saying he had a package, and not enough stamps had been affixed, so could he call to the post office to pay for it?

He went down there, and they askked him for £7 and some pence, and he duly paid and took away his package.

He opened it outside to find it was a house brick, wrapped up in brown paper.

He had forgotten the ex he had dumped two weeks earlier had a nasty sense of humour! :clap:

K x

:D Maybe it's just my mad mum then..? She sent me a plastic alligator around New Year time, her excuse being that she found it at work and thought I would like it (alligator fan that I am, obviously :loopy: ) :D Mad as a hatter!

Originally posted by TracieJC
She sent me a plastic alligator around New Year time, her excuse being that she found it at work and thought I would like it!

How often does she get released :confused:

Do they wire her into the National Grid :hihi:

I forget to mention my KitKat was slightly melted, hour in the freezer soon sorted that out :thumbsup:

Originally posted by TracieJC
:D Maybe it's just my mad mum then..? She sent me a plastic alligator around New Year time, her excuse being that she found it at work and thought I would like it (alligator fan that I am, obviously :loopy: ) :D Mad as a hatter!

Tracie,

How lovely is it though that something so daft as an alligator (hope it wasn't alive!) made her think of you, and take the trouble and time to post it.

She must really love you! :clap:

K x

Originally posted by Deejay
How often does she get released :confused:

Do they wire her into the National Grid :hihi:

Awwwww... you meanie! :P LOL, sadly I fear my mums sense of randomness has been inherited by me, I've sent some pretty odd parcels in my time. I used to have a pet snake (the now departed Dave :cry: ) and one day it shed its skin perfectly in a whole piece. I sent it to my friend for her son - he was one of those boys that was into nature and catching bugs and things, and I thought it would interesting for him. His mum rang me the next evening to say its terrified him and it took a packet of smarties and much consoling to get him to calm down again :P Oops!

Originally posted by Deejay
I forget to mention my KitKat was slightly melted, hour in the freezer soon sorted that out :thumbsup:

Hmmm... not convinced about resolidified chocolate... the melting and cooling processes seem to modify its taste properties :suspect: I think I'd have abandoned that one and got to the shop for a replacement :P

Hmm the oddest thing I ever had was one of those huge framed cds, you know the ones I mean the ones that bands get the say they have so many cds... I got one of those for the Linkin Park cd meteora, complete with my name engraved on it, I have no idea why it was sent to me, but it couldnt have been a mistake cos it had my name on it...

Susie
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Originally posted by Susie
Hmm the oddest thing I ever had was one of those huge framed cds, you know the ones I mean the ones that bands get the say they have so many cds... I got one of those for the Linkin Park cd meteora, complete with my name engraved on it, I have no idea why it was sent to me, but it couldnt have been a mistake cos it had my name on it...

Susie
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Did you win it in a competition and forget you entered?

K x

I thought of that, but I cant stand linkin park and wouldnt enter a comp for them... plus I dont really enter all that many competitions, it really left me in a quandry, I thought it may have been my boyfriend (who i wasnt actually with at the time) and his best friend pulling a prank on me.

Susie
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I know a bloke at work who, for a chuckle sent random things to random addresses.

One of them was a letter containing a unused tea bag and a note saying "put the kettle on" or something daft like that.

His other favorite was to eat a bag of crisp's then post the empty packet to the first address he could think of and pop a note in saying "put this in the bin when your passing".

He said he hoped that who ever got them found it funny.
It all stopped though when there was that terror alert about antrax being sent in the post. He was bricking his self for weeks over that. Daft sod

Originally posted by msbehavin

Have never received an interesting parcel that I can think of - last good one was my ant farm from
www.iwantoneofthose.com/CategoryList.aspx?list=search&category=ants&language=en-GB

Damn. I want one of those ant farms. What do you feed them on........
Sorry to get off thread tracey :)

Years ago while a nanny in Canada my Mom sent me a xmas parcel from Sheffield with assorted sweets, weeks later i got around to opening the tube box of smarties, empty ! only to find a lovely string of pearls inside, shethoughtby hiding them they would get through customs ?

Originally posted by Susie
I thought of that, but I cant stand linkin park and wouldnt enter a comp for them... plus I dont really enter all that many competitions, it really left me in a quandry, I thought it may have been my boyfriend (who i wasnt actually with at the time) and his best friend pulling a prank on me.

Susie
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Expensive prank though :suspect:

K x

The ants live in and feed off the blue gel (apparently some stuff developed by NASA scientists) but if you click on the ant farm ad it will tell you all you need to know. They are actually very interesting to watch - bring their dead colleagues up to the surface for removal and all that.... All female apparently too , males just used for breeding.... (hmmm is there a message in their somewhere???):hihi:

Originally posted by Kristian
Expensive prank though :suspect:

K x

Yeah thats how I ruled that out, its one big mystery

Susie
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I once picked a parcel up for my dad from the local post office that turned out to be a 9mm Italian Automatic pistol in a presentation case....

Originally posted by Deejay

Next day I had a Chunky KitKat (which was my fave at the time) delivered by Internal Mail :clap: :banana:

Once I mentioned in the chatroom here that I liked Twixs. I was off work for a couple of days and when I got back, I was told someone had handed in a twix for me at the front desk :confused:

:suspect: :suspect:

I have a friend who collects antique corsets and buys a lot off Ebay. As he works away a lot, he often has them delivered here.

A few weeks ago one came when I was out and was left at the computer shop just near our house instead. I went round to collect it and they all started giggling. I wondered why until I looked at the wording on the package. It said "Used underwear".

I once sent a bizarre parcel.
My best friend at the time was going off to Uni and I knew I would miss her and she would miss home terribly so I made a leaving box.
I'd recently bought some knee length boots so I had a huge box. I painted it pink then painted a huge rainbow coloured scorpion on top, her star sign. Then filled the box with tins of beans, plasters, condoms, paracetamol, paper, pens, packet noodles, chocolate and so on and sent that.
Never found out what she thought of it.

I got a jiffy bag full of sweets through the post on Friday. No idea why, who from etc. THe address label was typed.

Odd.

When I lived in France I relied on friends in the UK sending me Cadbury's chocolate, and flavoured crisps through the post...

Originally posted by Andy
Once I mentioned in the chatroom here that I liked Twixs. I was off work for a couple of days and when I got back, I was told someone had handed in a twix for me at the front desk :confused:

:suspect: :suspect:

Did I ever mention that I like the look of the Renault Megane convertible? :thumbsup: Tht would be a lot of stamps though!

K x

Originally posted by Zebra
I once sent a bizarre parcel.
My best friend at the time was going off to Uni and I knew I would miss her and she would miss home terribly so I made a leaving box.
I'd recently bought some knee length boots so I had a huge box. I painted it pink then painted a huge rainbow coloured scorpion on top, her star sign. Then filled the box with tins of beans, plasters, condoms, paracetamol, paper, pens, packet noodles, chocolate and so on and sent that.
Never found out what she thought of it.

That is such a lovely thing to do! Thoughtful things like that always make me want to cry! My dad always used to send me little parcels of stuff, like when he tried some new flavour of herbal tea he'd send me a tea bag, and he'd cut random articles out of newspapers and magazines that he thought I would find interesting, and recipes and a sachet of plant food and all sorts.

When I finished my degree, my parents ordered some stuff from tesco for me, to be delivered as a surprise the day after I had finished. They knew I hadn't had any sleep for about 3 weeks and hadn't been food shopping so they sent me: bottle of pink champagne, strawberries, yummy white choc with coconut in it, posh duck ready meal, tesco finest desert thingy, vitamin C tablets, nurofen (for anticipated hangover), and a few other bits. Best thing I've ever had delivered! They did something similar for my brother, but his consisted mainly of beer and pizza!

I once recieved a signed single from one of my fave bands (Fiery Furnaces) that was in an unmarked envolope with nothing but that inside...

Very strange...