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Delivery packaging spoilt surprise :(

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  • System
    System Posts: 178,348 Community Admin
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    Some companies will send items in non identifiying packaging you only have to ask them.
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  • ThumbRemote
    ThumbRemote Posts: 4,729 Forumite
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    ScarletMarble wrote: »
    Which is annoying for the customer if they ask their OH to pick it up if it's their present or, like yesterday, having my head filled with horror when the woman picking up parcel was so pig ugly - wouldn't seen out of place on Jeremy Kyle - her parcel contained nipple tassels.

    You have 'horror' at people you consider ugly having a sex life??
  • daytona0
    daytona0 Posts: 2,358 Forumite
    ThumbRemote wrote: »
    You have 'horror' at people you consider ugly having a sex life??

    I believe it was "pig ugly" :p


    Handing over nipple tassels to ANYONE would probably be funny if you were there, but you have to draw the line at judging people based on their looks. That's playground behaviour!
  • DigForVictory
    DigForVictory Posts: 12,058 Forumite
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    My beloved expressed a desire for linen rope. No other fibre would do, it had to be linen. After much prowling around chandlers, then drum makers (ye gods, even more expensive than yachts!), I ended up getting a admirably discreetly wrapped parcel from an online purveyor of exotica (swap the x for an r).
    I'd almost have rather it came in a box saying "ROPE!", as Himself is so pleased at the story, he keeps going on about it.
    With the Govt now allowed to snoop, my internet search history is going to look Just Fascinating...
  • Chickabiddybex
    Chickabiddybex Posts: 1,346 Forumite
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    I ordered a sofa as a surprise and look what was on the box:

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    SURPRISE RUINED!
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  • LilElvis
    LilElvis Posts: 5,835 Forumite
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    This morning I answered the door and was handed a giant box from M&S. It wasn't Mark's delivering - just a man in a van. Just a piece of paper taped to the box with my address but no details as to the recipient or sender.

    I've now got this, but no clue who has sent it or if it's even meant for us!

    http://www.marksandspencer.com/the-festive-collection-christmas-hamper/p/p60052261?&pdpredirect
  • Sicard
    Sicard Posts: 865 Forumite
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    Ivrytwr3 wrote: »
    Managed to get the wife a pair of boots that is sold out in most places as a xmas gift.

    Item arrives and all over the packaging is 'shoetique'.

    Wife "oooh! You got me some new boots then?".

    Not the end of the world, but was hoping to keep it a surprise.

    It's just as well you didn't buy her a Lamborghini.
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  • SpammyTheSpammer
    SpammyTheSpammer Posts: 1,773 Forumite
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    This does sound like a bit of a "First World Problem" to me...
    I am a cow so cannot speak Bullshine but I do recognise its smell when I come upon it.
  • BlondeHeadOn
    BlondeHeadOn Posts: 2,277 Forumite
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    One year I ordered a wok as a Christmas gift for my parents (my mum was just getting into Chinese cooking), and had it delivered to their house.

    Two days later I received an excited phone call from my dad, asking what on earth i had bought them as a Securicor van had just turned up and delivered the parcel in brown wrapping with Securicor labels all over it.

    That one kept them guessing for 10 days before they could open it on Christmas day !!
  • NCC-1701
    NCC-1701 Posts: 530 Forumite
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    SpammyTheSpammer wrote: »
    This does sound like a bit of a "First World Problem" to me...
    A bit like the Christmas card thread someone started?:D
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