{"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

And then there\u2019s Mystery Potato<\/a>, which also writes a message on a potato but never discloses who the potato is from. Their potatoes start from $7.99 and go up to $9.99. The company\u00a0also offers a \u2018glitter bomb\u2019, which includes a message written on notebook paper and ton of rainbow glitter that falls onto the recipient from the envelope.<\/p>\n

All of these companies have one thing in common: they are ridiculous. But, it seems to work for them and people love it, so who are we to judge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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. The owner of Potato Parcel, 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 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}