Clear box and rubber ball
Comments offWhile it’s not my goal to solicit weird articles to post on this site (there’s already Wired’s Return to Sender Contest and Post Secret), someone sent this odd piece of mail and I decided to share it.
I’m not exactly sure who sent it, but I suspect someone from Jelly. The box is a clear plastic box sold at hobby stores for displaying autographed baseballs. Inside is a blue racquetball with my address written on it. The sender put fractional postage on several sides.
The post office added the two white stickers. Those are actually stickers from the counter postage machine. When you send a package, they print the postage barcode on a sticker with that orange stripe at the top. They used one sticker to display the originating postmark clearly and another one to write the address on. Since they wrote the entire address, I assume it was someone at the sending post office. Delivery time was only two days.
Again, the point is to send your own weird stuff to people you know. My PO Box is small and stuffed with my own mail, so they leave a note telling me I have to take off from work to come to the counter during business hours. That’s not entirely bad as I got to enjoy the clerk’s befuddlement as they brought the package out from the front and got to talk to them for a little while about the postal system.
Anyway, thanks for sending it.
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