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Pizza Box Surprise Cram

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Pizza Box Surprise Cram
Swap Coordinator:ElizabethObviously (contact)
Swap categories: Food  Miscellaneous  Boxes 
Number of people in swap:10
Location:Regional - USA
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:September 18, 2009
Date items must be sent by:November 6, 2009
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

So we ordered pizza from Pizza Hut and I started to think, wouldn't it be great fun to get a clean box and fill it with goodies and send it as is? Like just tape up the edges real good and have it filled with fun stuff??? Could you imagine the look on the post office worker face when you mailed it?!?!?

So a half asleep idea becomes a swap!

For this swap, you will get a CLEAN pizza box from your local resturant! Ask for a large one. They will most likely give it to you with no questions. Try to avoid using Pizza Hut or Dominos but if that is all you can get, that works. It is just so much more fun seeing different area's boxes!

You will then fill it with goodies for your partner! Examples would be: scrapbook stuff, candy, embroidery floss, books, mix CDs, magazines, fat quarters, anything you think your partner would like! Please try to FILL the box as much as possible! Do not put in 5 small items and expect that to work. If you can shake the box and things move, then add more! I am not going to put a price on this because some of the stuff will be from your home stash!

PLEASE DO NOT SEND JUNK!!! PLEASE DO NOT SEND SOMETHING YOU WOULDN'T LIKE YOURSELF! This is not a clean out your junk drawer swap. If you think it is, please move on!!

  • Make sure you have a filled ouT profile so your partner can send you awesome things!

  • This swap is USA only due to postage but please feel free to start an international one! It would be fun to see the different countries pizza boxes!

  • Ratings of 4.9 or above please. This is a high risk flake swap so I will be looking over profiles closely! This is not to be "elite or picky". This is to protect people who join!

  • No newbies! This means you have to have at least 20 MAILED swaps under your belt! That means email swap do not count! If you have done alot of email swaps recently and have older mailed swaps, that is fine! I understand that likes and dislikes change!

  • Please make sure you tape the edges very VERY VERY well! If you can barely pry it open, add more tape! Put the name and addie right on the box! If it is hard to see, put it on a piece of white paper and tape over it! WE LOVE TAPE!!! Make your partner hate you when they try to open it!

  • I will be montoring profiles very closely on this swap so please feel comfortable in joining! Please know I will try everything to make sure you will NOT be flaked on!

If you have any questions, please ask!

EDITED- You can now use a MEDIUM BOX.

Discussion

robotlove 08/14/2009 #

Is it really okay to mail a pizza box out like this? Not that I'm criticizing.. I'm genuinely curious if they (the post office) will accept mailing things in them. =)

ElizabethObviously 08/14/2009 #

lol Yah this is pretty much the same thing as what they call NAKED MAIL. A box is a box!

ElizabethObviously 08/14/2009 #

And just so you know..I have sent things out in trash bag boxes, cracker boxes, detergent boxes, pringle cans...all as is!

robotlove 08/14/2009 #

Nice! I'll have to remember about the pringles cans as I sometimes need a small tube to mail something and the mailing tubes I buy in the store are sometimes too big.

Thanks for giving me the heads up about this! =D

Swan 08/14/2009 #

When I try to mail something in an unusual box like that they make me black out all the writing, bar codes, etc. that could be distracting...

kimpe 08/14/2009 #

If the post office gives you grief about whats on the box just wrap it in a paperbag.

bluecrayons 08/14/2009 #

ive use pop tart boxes, alcohol wipe boxes, pop bottles (2 liter), cereal boxes, 12 pack pop boxes, anything that is clean and the right size i have used. we have a thing with our city, we have canisters they give us to recycle plastic, cans, cardboard so instead i recycle this way. lol

Krazychef 08/14/2009 #

they will charge you an oversize fee

ElizabethObviously 08/14/2009 #

i used to send stuff for my mom for ebay...one time i sent 3 huge stuffed jaguar toys...these are like the full size kinds...i dont think they charged an oversize fee.

ElizabethObviously 08/15/2009 #

or they may have...im not sure...i just took the stuff up there, fileld out the check and said here mom! It cost X amount!

smielybunny22 08/15/2009 #

I've sent in a cereal box,also pop tart boxes and a ipod plastic box (just covered in paper)

somethingblue 08/15/2009 #

Watching this one.

craftygirl 08/16/2009 #

You can mail pizza boxes. I hosted a swap like this before. I'm watching for now!

ElizabethObviously 08/18/2009 #

aww dang and i thought i was being sooo creative :)

MamaMay 08/20/2009 #

I would love to do this swap! Sadly I don't have enough mail swaps.

ElizabethObviously 08/20/2009 #

well it's a bit in the future so you might be able to catch up before then!

kjohnson65 09/ 3/2009 #

I would love to join but I do not have enough mailed swaps either! :-( I have lots of ideas but will have to wait until next time around. Hopefully, by then, I will meet the requirements.

NickysNickNacks 09/ 4/2009 #

great idea. I dont know if I missed it do you say what size pizza box. small or large?

ElizabethObviously 09/ 5/2009 #

It is a large box.

Cupcakexcore 09/ 6/2009 #

watching. I will join as long as it is not oversized to mail. if someone has a box can they measure and find out? PM me please!

namesarefun 09/10/2009 #

Love the idea, and will come back!!

DownsideUp 09/10/2009 #

Would love to join this but I do not fit the requirements. It is a great idea though.

thebabykitties 09/17/2009 #

OHHH I got my box 2 days ago from the pizza guy!

Faerlyfaerie 09/23/2009 #

I just got my box and I am super nervous now! This is a big box! :)

ElizabethObviously 09/30/2009 #

fill it with bigger things then :)

ElizabethObviously 10/ 6/2009 #

Do you think i should move the send by date back??? i think i under estimated how much stuff would fill up a box really

hydro75 11/ 9/2009 #

Apparently a lot of us are getting flaked on this one... :(

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