Various food and drink establishments across Swansea have been receiving single biscuits and even little individual potatoes in the post
Pubs and coffee shops in one part of Wales have found themselves receiving rather unexpected packages from an unknown source. In the last week, various establishments in the Swansea area have reported getting individual items in the post, and no-one quite knows why.
The random objects were not accompanied with a note or a return address, leaving the owners wondering who is sending them food in the post.
The Plough and Harrow pub in Llangyfelach has received two separate parcels in the last week, each containing a singular biscuit.
The first arrived on Saturday, January 31, with a rich tea biscuit inside and the second on Monday, February 2, came with a digestive. Never miss a Swansea story by signing up to our newsletter here.
Stephanie Hally, the owner of the pub, described the packaged as “bizarre”, saying she’d never received anything like it before. She said: “They’ve gone to the lengths of getting them packaged but by the time it comes through to our letterbox and we receive it it’s broken biscuits anyway.
“When the first one arrived a member of my staff sent it to me and I thought it was very strange.
“I thought it might have been a supplier wanting us to supply biscuits from them but there was no return address or sender on the back of the package so it’s quite bizarre.
“The first one I sort of just thought ‘ah right ok’ but now we’ve had another one. There was nothing inside other than the biscuit!”
Stephanie was even more stumped by the fact both packages had been sent using Royal Mail tracked delivery.
She explained: “The first package was a brown envelope which had a sticker saying it was tracked by Royal Mail, and then the second one was a white package which said it was tracked by Royal Mail as well.
“Someone’s spent money and gone to the trouble of having it tracked and paying for it.”
The Marquis Arms pub in Swansea received an almost identical package. The pub posted on Facebook: “Thank you to whoever sent us a McVities digestive biscuit in the post, much appreciated.”
This was accompanied by two pictures of a white envelope containing a digestive biscuit broken into a number of small pieces.
The pubs haven’t been the only two places to acquire something strange through the post in recent weeks. Smashed Raspberry, a café in Neath, received a small potato in yet another identical tracked Royal Mail white parcel.
Samantha Paul, the owner of Smashed Raspberry, said: “When I opened it I was completely and utterly baffled. I tried to figure out then whether I’d ordered it by mistake, had I ordered it late at night or had I slept walked? Then I asked everybody else and I realised it must just be a joke.”
Samantha has turned detective trying to figure out where the potato came from, but as of yet she’s had no luck.
She said: “We’ve had suspicions about who it might be – we thought it might be a company that’s sending them out to businesses knowing they’re going to post about such a bizarre thing.
That’s the only thing I can think of because there is nothing really that links us all. “The first thing I did was google ‘why have I received a potato in the post’ and that’s how I found out that this is an actual website where you can send a potato and things like that.”
She added: “We’ve asked loads of people that we thought it could be but nobody has come forward. We asked friends and customers who like a joke but no-one has said it was them.”
Despite the confusion, Samantha’s team have welcomed the potato in with welcome arms, drawing a face on him and naming him ‘PotaTony’.
