Roughly two weeks ago, I was in enjoying a couple of afternoon beverages at my local publican with an old friend and he was telling me about this myth he had heard. Which was… if you write your address on the back of a beer-mat, and put it in the mailbox, Australia post will not only deliver your preciously stained coaster, but they will bill the establishment whom it belonged too!!
Ridiculous right? Admittedly he wasn’t so sure himself so we decided to test it out… and after basking in a secret chuckle over the obscurity of placing a beer mat with an address and the message I love balls into a mailbox, its safe to say I had completely forgotten of our investigation.
Now two weeks later, I couldn’t believe what awaited me in the mail!! I had received my coaster and with it, an apology from Australia post for its delayed arrival… Apparently it was found loose in a “street-posting box”.
Has anyone heard of something like this? Perhaps we could put it to the test!
Yeah I saw this other blog ages ago (that I’ve tired to find several times) in which a women mailed random stuff to her illustration teacher in London. Included a letter made out of human hair and a row of colored pencils glued together to make a random postcard. Very strange and infinitely interesting.
Hahahaha I like the little ‘fragile’ symbol you drew on it.
A friend in the UK didn’t have enough money to mail a letter so he just addressed it to himself and put the sender as the person he actually wanted to send it to. Obviously when they returned to ‘sender’ his mail arrived where it needed to go at no charge.
Isn’t there that thing that you can sign up to where you send random mail back and forth? I’ll have to figure out exact details…
Eric Ericson has done some other pretty interesting stuff. I first heard about him a few years back when he did another mail related project, writing letters to different companies and government agencies, suggesting, asking and debating all kinds of bizarre stuff. Won’t make much sense explaining, so check out this link http://www.brevtillutlandet.se/btu.html and click on “Provläs boken” and you’ll get a few examples. Pretty funny.
I mailed one on the weekend. If it works I might start upping the stakes.
GRG9DR ckvrrslvpzdo, [url=http://jexgskornsbv.com/]jexgskornsbv[/url], [link=http://txqcudrzessa.com/]txqcudrzessa[/link], http://dibnlcpltyhu.com/
Sweet baby Jesus I can’t believe it actually arrived.
I had an idea like this in my advertising portfolio a while back. It was for the Drugs & Alcohol government body and the idea was to get people to “Post-A-Coaster” to themselves from whatever drinking establishment they were in at the time (the coasters would be postage-paid). The idea being that when the person received the coaster, they’d realise how drunk and disorderly they must’ve been at the time of posting it, and hopefully relax on the alcohol next time they were out drinking.
This is hilarious KP! Although I’m still waiting for mine to arrive 
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That’s very cool, it’s like the Swedish artist Eric Ericson who sent random things through the mail addressed ‘To Mr Cheng’ to see what strange things he can get away with sending through the post – no boxes or anything, just a good old stamp whacked onto the said item. Pretty cool. Check it out here [http://www.to-mr-cheng.com/]
I like the globe, violin and mannequin head