This just in...literally

Hey kids,

I went out to my mailbox today and saw that I got a package.  This is what I found:

 

Yep, that's a Chocomii.  But the funny thing is, it's a box of Chocomiis from TWO YEARS AGO.  The first year we made them, I used prepaid stamps, as opposed to printing off the labels.  The cool thing is that back then, Priority Mail was only $4.60. You can see that on the stamp:

 

What's funny, is that after two years of sitting in a post office, they decided to send it back to me.  That in itself isn't funny, what is is that Priority Mail postage has gone up $.30, and the post office wants it for delivering the package back to me.  TWO YEARS after I sent it out.

 

Yeah, that's not going to happen.  We'll call that a wash.

So I thought to myself, "Self, what do you think two year old Chocomiis look like, and did they survive two years of travel?"  So I opened the box.

That first year, we made the boxes actually have the shape of the Wii.  We cut off a corner and added a sticker to it that looked like the Wii.  And after two years, it still looks pretty good.

 

So I thought, well the chocolate can't be all that bad, could it?  Now, to preface, that first year we had the big Miis.  We also had a lot of breakage because the necks and arms were so tiny, compared to the heads.

This box was a Male Dark Chocolate and a Female White Chocolate.  I know this from the marking on the underside of the box.

 

Opening the box, I found the chocolates to be bloomed, which is expected, but otherwise in good shape.  The guy was intact, but the girl lost her head and an arm.

 

You'll also see that back then, we didn't wrap the chocolate in their own bags, and didn't have trays, just the chocolate with some bubblewrap around it.  Out of the 3500 boxes we shipped, only a handful of people were put off by this.

So, on Valentine's Day this year, I will eat these two blasts from the past.  And, of course, I will blog about how well open chocolate stored for two years in a New York postal depot tastes.  I will also try and contact the original recipient to get his comment.

EDIT:  OK, note to anyone who ventures across 2 year old chocolate that has been sitting in a postal facility.  While, at first bite, the chocolate lures you in with it's choco-goodness, time has definitely not been kind.  Let's just say that the two years have left a bitter aftertaste in both the chocolate and my mouth.

Comments

[Mikey]

Oh yea.... I remember wrapping that box. It even says you got an "F" on it. You fail as a modern day Willy Wonka