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

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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.

Sure I think "what could go wrong" is they'll be diverted from the massive salad they'd just convinced themselves to sniff.
Now if Taytos wanted to start a "send some crisps to poor hungry deprived Irish expats abroad anonymously" campaign they'd make a packet.

Dear Cadbury's,
Please send 200g of your finest arsenic caramel chocolate to this address in my gloved hand.

Yours,
Person paying online with an online payment method i.e. fully traceable.

PS. Why on earth does anyone on this thread think they're important or special enough to receive a long convoluted complicated death plot from someone?

YANBU
I'm normally pretty chilled, but I straight away didn't like the campaign AT ALL

It put me in mind of a stalker, who wanted to unsettle you. You'd have no proof it was him, but you'd know

There's recently been a women killed by her stalker near me, and it reminded me of that tbh

But surely you understand some of us have mental illness and/or developmental disorders and we really struggle to get through life. Telling us to just 'get a grip' doesn't actually work.

Perhaps because they have a mental illness?

We have a very tight hallway and a letter cage would stop the door from opening properly. Our dog has no interest in eating HMRC cheques or aquabeads, but he can smell food from 100 yards.

We’re home most of the time when the post comes as we’re WFH, but posting any unrequested food through someone’s door is always going to be a risk. When Graze boxes were all the rage we never ordered them as they weren’t safe for the dog, but my ex-MiL sent us one as a ‘treat’. Different dog at the time, but he loved his treat very much.

Honestly if your 'stalker' had your address and wanted to send you something, they'd just do it without waiting for Cadbury campaign to send you some chocs 'to freak you out'.

I'm one of the people who doesn't always answer the door if I am not expecting anyone or any deliveries (they simply leave it at the door if it's a random delivery and no answer, which rarely happens) but even I think this is not likely to happen unless Cadbury is doing this for free and the stalker is so short of money, they'd be happy to use this method to restart their stalking via post.

Why? Genuine question.

No-one seems to be able to give a sensible answer. If someone wished to stalk someone else they could do it in all sorts of ways, they don't need Cadbury to give them an excuse.

Anyone sends me chocolate, I eat it, with no more than a second's thought as to who it might be from.

@Toddlerteaplease

i guess not knowing who sent it?

It will have a post mark on it of the locale in which it is posted.

Exactly. I don't think Cadbury should be encouraging it.

Thank you. Yes I think maybe it depends if you've already experienced the anonymous gift/creepy scenario.

Yes its chocolate, yes chocolate is nice but that doesn't make this a frivolous thing to do.

Yes these are the scenarios I'm thinking of

Ever heard of stalkers?

You could. But that doesn't mean Cadbury need to be selling it as a jolly good idea

@IncompleteSenten this is my point - like you saidThat said, I think if someone who has been stalked or is being stalked or someone who's fled an abusive ex etc gets it they are going to be bloody scared and upset and worried that the person has found them

If they were anonymous then yes. Yes I would

All these posters saying YABU it's harmless it's fun it's chocolate (unless you have a stalker/abusive ex etc). That is EXACTLY my point. So many women will have recieved unwanted contact that I just find the concept of encouraging people to mail anything to someone else anonymously disturbing.

I don't think Valentine's cards should be anonymous either

Yes great fun wondering if its that creepy guy you once worked with who someone got your address.

Also agree re data collection but I imagine they can't do that.

I'd bin it if no idea who'd sent it or what their intentions were.

There was a man in rural New Zealand who died after drinking wine left for him in his letterbox. It had been laced with weedkiller. The murderer has not been found.

Fair enough, but I’m guess Cadbury’s will probably reject any request to lace the chocolate with weedkiller before they send it.

You do know the person doing the sending never actually sees or has contact with what is being sent?

I find it wierd. I don’t like people having secrets that involve me. Creeps me out and feels patronising.

I think I must have lived a very unexciting life because it wouldn’t occur to me that this could be sinister 🤣