What is the oddest thing you have sent through the mail?
Title is self-explanatory.
Did it make it? Or what...
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. I haven't sent anything very weird (some chondroitin to Israel and Pt wire to a fellow Ibler), but I did get a joint in the mail one time.
SHHHH! Don't let "the man" in on the great postal secrets. I know of a guy, who has shipped firearms both legally and illegally through the mail. What were these people thinking? :-)
. I know ppl that used to mail all sorts of weird stuff around the country. Apparently, mail is screened much closer the last ten years or so.
. It made me nervous to ship the chondroitin to IL. Perfectly legal here, but I was imagining the cops showing up with extradition papers. :)
. It made me nervous to ship the chondroitin to IL. Perfectly legal here, but I was imagining the cops showing up with extradition papers. :)
My mom is a retired postmaster. I recieved a few stern warnings about the things that didn't belong in the mail. There are a few characteristics that'll set off a major screening. Most concern is bomb related, but the postal inspectors are still fairly vigilant about anything illegal these days.
I talked to a metalworker a couple weeks ago and he told me that anvils get sent through the mail without any packaging. It's just the anvil with the label stuck to it. Because what the hell can anyone do to an anvil?
Jan 10, 2009. 2:30 PM11010010110
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imagine a cardboard box failure and the thing falling thru it ouch ! thats probably why
Dec 12, 2007. 12:21 PM_soapy_
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ANC (UK parcel people) could break it! We'd send things that you wouldn't think could be broken, and they would come back destroyed! Most couriers are amazingly abusive towards the stuff they send, but these guys were special!
Jan 5, 2009. 2:01 PMThelonelysandwitch
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Yeah, my neighbor got these 3 special river rocks, the ones that cover the road for the NASA rocket transporter, but bigger. He did the front of his house with the big ones. When they arrived, 2/3 were broken. It was crazy.
Yeah, I had ordered ten brand new flyback transformers, and when I got them, they were badly beaten up and chipped too...
Jan 12, 2009. 3:49 PMThelonelysandwitch
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the worst part was that the box had 5 FRAGILE stickers on it.
That is crazy! A lot of people just don't care nowdays... :-(
Good point. I guess you're right. I'd just hate to be the mailman to deliver those things once a month :-P
I mailed (UPS) a small motorcycle, 50cc Honda, to Canada. I mailed a 350cc Bultaco engine to Spain, and a 650cc Triumph engine to Florida. Deer antlers to Australia. Cassowary feathers, Crocodile skull, and Vegemite to the US.
After summer camp I had a friend's bottle of shampoo. She insisted that I mail it to her so I wrote the addresses on it with a Sharpie and sent it off. I put some plastic wrap between the bottle and cap to seal it. It made it. Can't remember why I had her shampoo. I never even used it.
That is just odd... I am really surprised that it made it.
I'm surprised you had her shampoo and your best story out of it is mailing it back :p
Well there was that big orgy that lasted for a couple days, but that would just bore everyone.
I stopped reading after the word "big" and fell asleep.
Yeah... I agree. And only a "couple" of days? Come on!
The stuff I've sent you, actually..... I guess it's not too odd, but they guy at the post office kept asking me what was inside.... I finally just said some plastic....
Ha :p I just stuck it in the mailbox... so I don't know what he was thinking :P
The oddest thing I ever had sent through the mail was a large sample of Depends to a not so elderly person...still living at home actually....
Actually, I sent in a postage paid card /advert, that requested a free sample, and used the other person's address. They really didn't appreciate it though *sigh* Oh well, me and my weird sense of humor.
This was a LONG time ago, understand :-) over 30 years ago actually.
Well, you do know about "Depends" right ? They are oversized diapers for elderly adults. These were for like a fairly heavy person.
Yes, they came in small (which aren't really very small) medium and large. In a few years, karma could "pay me back" for that little indiscretion. LOL
Dec 10, 2007. 5:39 PMmarc92
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It would be cool to send someone (that you know) a GPS tracker so you can see exactly where your package goes, perhaps via computer. Also I would include an accelerometer to see how much your package is abused in the mail
Well, sending it by USPS with "tracking" or by UPS, or FEDEX will allow you to at least track the package online. :-)
Some one should try sending a piece of gum to someone...I should try that....
I sent my mate Brian a 'squadron' of wasps. They were all dead, but it had a severe psychological effect upon him. And I sent Jonty some assorted (dead) insects, but he was indifferent. Jonty had considered posting me a sheep-turd in a Jiffy-bag, but he lacked sufficient motivation... L
I picked a random place to send some leaves to and my phone number and a note saying that if you get this call me 1 week later I got a phone call form the person I had sent it to.
Apr 20, 2007. 4:16 PMVendigroth
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i regularly dend postacrds to my family and phriends and arrive before they do.....
A friend just emailed me a link to a list of bizarre things sent in the mail.
Postal Experiments
Looks like others have tried mailing a fish in a box as well. Yecchh.
Postal Experiments
Looks like others have tried mailing a fish in a box as well. Yecchh.
I just saw that on digg too :-) Its funny how they check things that they think include drugs, but who would be stupid enough to mail drugs using those methods. I would probably put it in the coconut or something :P
You'd be surprised. Someone mailed a package that had a huge bag of weed wrapped up in a sweater to a student at my college. The recipient had an idea that this might be a bad idea so he got a freshman to accept the package. Sure enough, one day a mail truck arrives at the dorm and when the freshman accepts it he gets arrested by the undercover cop/delivery guy. As the cop is taking the student away he says to him, "Next time, use coffee." This was supposed to be a good college with smart kids, but not too clever. The good ending is that the freshman's dad hired a lawyer and got him out of it. Then there was the time my roommate tried to bring a Capuchin monkey back to America in his coat pocket. That story didn't end so well.
I'm not sure. I know that his defense was that he didn't and was set up for it, but I never heard about that part.
Feb 23, 2007. 1:30 PMCesarilious
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what's to stop someone from sending you a bag of weed just so that you would get arrested just despite you?
Dec 7, 2006. 3:09 PMgraphak
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I once mailed myself a bannana. I wrote the address right on the peel, and slapped a few stamps on. I never saw it again. Then I recieved some really annoying junk mail, so I filled out the questionare with BS answers, saw a few french fries on the table and threw them into the prepaid response envelope along with a few other bits of food. . Never got any junk mail from them again!
Dec 7, 2006. 3:17 PMgraphak
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Another thing thats worked for me in the past: If you want to send a local friend a letter for free, ( I wouldnt try it with any important mail) put his address as the sender, and yours as the reciever. If you drop it in a box with no stamp on it, your letter should be returned to the "sender."
Nov 18, 2006. 8:32 PMcry_wolf
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Once when i was little i sent a hotwheels car in the mail, not sure if it ever made it to it's destination.
Nov 12, 2006. 6:37 PMtyeo098
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Rotting fish as a prank. Sadly, it made it. It fermented in the box.
Nov 12, 2006. 2:00 PMDr. No
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Well that would be a hairless gerbil preseved in methalyne blue!
Nov 9, 2006. 6:52 PMSgt.Waffles
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ive sent a $1200 snake in a styrafoam box with half a dozen hand warmers. beat that paco!
Nov 7, 2006. 1:48 PMzachshane
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I mailed a "message in a bottle" once. I taped an address label onto a water bottle, stuck some stamps to it, and put my letter rolled up inside. I think I mailed it from NY to Boston.
Nov 2, 2006. 3:18 PMReliable Info
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My Nana came over from Northern Irelnad and when she went back, she forgot a load of laundry in the dryer. It was panties and bras, so I sent 5 sets of bras and panties, express, from Canada to Northern Ireland
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