Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To think encouraging people to send chocolate secretly is not a good idea?

259 replies

wokbun · 17/11/2023 11:31

So Cadbury do this thing where you can send chocolate anonymously to someone. AIBU to think this is not something to be encouraged? I'd be disturbed receiving unexpected chocolate to my home address.

OP posts:
Hereforaglance · 19/11/2023 11:05

Ur the type to freak out of a syranger walks past you n says hi lol snowflake central if someone sends you a gift of chocolates eat the chocolate while freaking out it will mske u feel beter lol

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 19/11/2023 09:23

Toomanycaketins · 18/11/2023 20:01

What if someone’s dog ate it?

Would non-anonymous chocolate be fine for dogs then? I thought the point of the thread was to object to the anonymity, not to ban sending any kind of food item as a gift by post.

Original poster
wokbun · 19/11/2023 09:05

haXXor · 19/11/2023 00:43

It gladdens my blackened heart to see someone else on here demonstrating the security mindset.

Show quote history

Me too tbh

OP posts:
Redundantrobin · 19/11/2023 08:56

@haXXor

im so intrigued by your job…

Allfur · 19/11/2023 08:55

I had never heard of it till now, I think I might do it, thanks for the heads up

Original poster
wokbun · 19/11/2023 08:50

haXXor · 19/11/2023 08:05

Forging the Cadbury packaging: easier or harder than forging someone else's handwriting? It makes another option available and gives a plausible excuse for the chocolate turning up at a time other than the recipient's birthday.

Show quote history

Exactly! Ooh it's chocolate who cares where it's from! Can buy a bar from the shop and lace it and post it.

OP posts:
FloatingLog · 19/11/2023 08:49

I can't believe how trusting some of you are. Has nobody watched Poirot?

FloatingLog · 19/11/2023 08:48

How do you know if it actually came from Cadbury's or whether it's a fake or tampered with bar of chocolate?

haXXor · 19/11/2023 08:05

MargaretThursday · 19/11/2023 06:48

If someone's going to go to that length, then they'll be quite capeable of making it look like it's come from a friend, which is probably easier than making it look like Cadbury packing.

Show quote history

Forging the Cadbury packaging: easier or harder than forging someone else's handwriting? It makes another option available and gives a plausible excuse for the chocolate turning up at a time other than the recipient's birthday.

MargaretThursday · 19/11/2023 06:48

haXXor · 19/11/2023 00:43

It gladdens my blackened heart to see someone else on here demonstrating the security mindset.

Show quote history

If someone's going to go to that length, then they'll be quite capeable of making it look like it's come from a friend, which is probably easier than making it look like Cadbury packing.

haXXor · 19/11/2023 00:43

Missingmyusername · 18/11/2023 07:47

I kind of get your get drift. Obviously what Cadbury send will be in bloody obvious Cadbury packaging. But people could lace a bar and send it out or post masquerading as free Cadbury choc and someone will fall for it.

Humans just aren’t very nice are they.

It gladdens my blackened heart to see someone else on here demonstrating the security mindset.

VisionsOfSplendour · 18/11/2023 23:35

Rosme · 18/11/2023 22:45

Weird. I wouldn’t eat something that I didn’t know where it came from and anyone who does is a fool.

But then I remember the guy who put the razor blades and glass shards in baby food.

That must make shopping tricky or are you quite happy to buy food that been through a long food chain and sat on a supermarket shelf where anyone could tamper with it but draw the line at something delivered packaged from the factory/promotion company warehouse?

Whiteday · 18/11/2023 23:17

Rosme · 18/11/2023 22:45

Weird. I wouldn’t eat something that I didn’t know where it came from and anyone who does is a fool.

But then I remember the guy who put the razor blades and glass shards in baby food.

Where were those items bought from? A shop?

Rosme · 18/11/2023 22:45

Weird. I wouldn’t eat something that I didn’t know where it came from and anyone who does is a fool.

But then I remember the guy who put the razor blades and glass shards in baby food.

Whiteday · 18/11/2023 21:37

Toomanycaketins · 18/11/2023 21:26

It’s not just the letterbox part, but if you had a pile of post on a table - an anonymous slim brown parcel for example, a labrador could happily sniff that out and snaffle it before the owner knew what was in it or to put it away.

I think I remember a situation where a drug company sent bars of chocolate to vets as a promotional thing… there was a bit of a backlash for that reason.

So lots of dogs in the vets were roaming round off lead examining post? I don't think so!

Whiteday · 18/11/2023 21:34

Toomanycaketins · 18/11/2023 21:26

It’s not just the letterbox part, but if you had a pile of post on a table - an anonymous slim brown parcel for example, a labrador could happily sniff that out and snaffle it before the owner knew what was in it or to put it away.

I think I remember a situation where a drug company sent bars of chocolate to vets as a promotional thing… there was a bit of a backlash for that reason.

Yeah it's almost a given that would happen! Although labradors are quite intelligent, so surely they'd read who it was addressed to and know it's not for them?

wesurecouldstandgladioli · 18/11/2023 21:28

As long as it’s clear it’s from Cadbury’s and delivered by Royal Mail Parcelforce, I will eat it. Otherwise, it might be syringed with Rohypnol.

Toomanycaketins · 18/11/2023 21:26

It’s not just the letterbox part, but if you had a pile of post on a table - an anonymous slim brown parcel for example, a labrador could happily sniff that out and snaffle it before the owner knew what was in it or to put it away.

I think I remember a situation where a drug company sent bars of chocolate to vets as a promotional thing… there was a bit of a backlash for that reason.

Whiteday · 18/11/2023 20:53

Toomanycaketins · 18/11/2023 20:01

What if someone’s dog ate it?

Or their diabetic child
Or their lactose intolerant daughter
Or their obese son

I mean the possibilities are totally endless..

Whiteday · 18/11/2023 20:52

Toomanycaketins · 18/11/2023 20:01

What if someone’s dog ate it?

Are you concerned you wouldn't know who to blame if it had been sent anonymously?

LadyMacB · 18/11/2023 20:06

Toomanycaketins · 18/11/2023 20:01

What if someone’s dog ate it?

Surely if someone had a dog and there was a chance it might die from eating something that could be put through the post box, you’d take steps to keep the dog away from the post?

Toomanycaketins · 18/11/2023 20:01

What if someone’s dog ate it?

Mum2jenny · 18/11/2023 19:55

OP is apparently unreasonable by a huge majority, I must disagree. If I were ever sent chocolate anonymously, I’d bin it.

Mum2jenny · 18/11/2023 19:53

I just cannot get why you would want to send chocolate to someone anonymously.
and I don’t get how the voting is!

ExcellentFabulous · 18/11/2023 19:50

Yes but if they suddenly got your address, they probably wouldn't be saying, right let me send her some Cadbury chocs. They'd be sending you something else or even if they send the chocs, they'd still do more than that.

In other words, the issue isn't the Cadbury chocs, it's that they've got your address whether Cadbury chocs exists or not.

But I hear you, fears and phobias are real whether reasonable or not. So I can't blame you. I just don't think it's as bad as you think it is.