{"id":598,"date":"2015-12-01T12:33:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T12:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:24:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:24:27","slug":"companies-make-small-fortunes-selling-personalised-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/companies-make-small-fortunes-selling-personalised-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies Make Small Fortunes Selling Personalised Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"
There are an absurd amount of companies who send messages on potatoes in both the US and the UK. Here we take a look at some of the different personalised potato-message companies.<\/p>\n
The owner of Potato Parcel<\/a>, Alex Craig, made \u00a319,000 in his first three months of selling personalised potatoes online. His company, Potato Parcel, allows people to send a potato in the post with a special message for only $9.99. In the US, he now offers the \u2018potato pal\u2019 for $14.99, which is a potato with a person\u2019s face printed on it\u00a0or a potato postcard for $12.99. He also ships internationally to the UK<\/a>, Australia<\/a>, Europe<\/a>, and Canada<\/a>. For UK customers, he charges \u00a39.99 with the option to include a message with up to\u00a0140 characters on the spud.<\/p>\n Rival UK company, Potato in the Post<\/a>, however, offers spuds with messages starting from \u00a33.99 with free shipping. The company was started by Adrian Nantchev who claims that sending a card is \u201ctoo mainstraim\u201d, urging people to \u201csend a potato instead\u201d, as receiving\u00a0a spud is far more memorable.<\/p>\n Another US based company, Mail a Spud<\/a>, costs $9.99 to send and arrives as is with the address of the recipient written on the potato with a bunch of stamps glued to the spud. You literally receive a potato with your post.<\/p>\n