Top the most unusual parcels of the world

One of the students of the American college ordered a bench for weightlifting. But when the parcel was delivered, there was another box, and in it - a drones worth $ 350 thousand. It is still unknown who made the young man such a surprise.

The next parcel was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest one. This parcel of the size of a small car and worth 10 thousand euros was collected by the owners of the supermarket chain "Woolworths.co.uk" in the US. There were toys for children from more than 100 families in the UK. In order to send out gifts to all recipients, it takes a long time. Therefore, the parcel was sent to a two-week tour around the country. During her trip she visited 19 cities of England, Scotland and Wales. There were video cameras, plush and soft toys in the form of pets, guitars and other gifts. The children were satisfied.

Leafcutter, titled "The Tiniest Mail in the World", manually creates tiny letters, parcels and invitations, which are then delivered by regular mail.
For a "tiny" fee you can write a personal letter or choose a small object, and you will be decorated, decorated and sent to anywhere in the world.

Artist Harriet Russell published the book "Envelopes", which included more than 100 letters sent by her to the addresses written in the form of encrypted puzzles. Her first experiments were addresses written in a deliberately illegible handwriting or from right to left - she was trying to understand what postmen are ready to put up with. "The letters were successfully delivered, and I began to encrypt the addresses in the puzzles that postmen had to solve - crossword puzzles, anagrams and the like."

The tricks of Reginald Bray are still alive in the form of a recognized art form, called "mail art". Practitioners of his artists send each other by mail the most unexpected items. About the eccentric London accountant few people have heard, but it was he who inspired writer David Bramwell to take up mail-art. "I was completely captured by his story," says Bramwell. Together with friend David Robinson, they sent each other all sorts of things throughout the year, neglecting the postal packaging. Among other things, the underwear, the apple, the toast and the leaf of a tree have successfully found the addressee. "With only one thing, we failed - it was a roll of toilet paper, which, apparently, just unwound in the mail," - says Bramwell.

The story happened at one of the post offices of the city of Kirov. Mail workers suddenly heard one of the parcels begin to buzz and vibrate. People from the building immediately evacuated, called the police, and she already found the sender of a strange box. They were a woman who for a long time did not dare to open her parcel. It is understandable, because it was ... a vibrator-dildo, from which they forgot to remove the batteries!

Another valuable cargo came in airmail in 2012. Someone anonymously returned the picture of Salvador Dali "Don Juan Tenorio" (cost 150 thousand dollars), which was stolen in the same year from the gallery of New York.

As for the most expensive mail (not for payment, but for content), then, most likely, it is the famous diamond Hope, whose value is estimated at 300 million dollars. His owner - jeweler Harry Winston - decided to bring a stone as a gift to the Smithsonian Institution. To transfer the jewel from New York to Washington, he decided to post first class. Delivery of the diamond itself cost only two and a half dollars plus 142.85 dollars of postal insurance. The courier who collected Hope at the post office said that his hands were shaking all the way.