List of potato delivery services
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This is an incomplete list of potato delivery services. These are companies that specialize in delivering potatoes unless otherwise noted, i.e. Brick or Potato, etc.
List[edit]
Australia[edit]
| Name | Founded by | Price | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potato Messenger | Will Richards and Daniel Buston of Geelong, Victoria, Australia | $10 | Potato Messenger mailed 1,000 potatoes to Parliament House, Canberra painted and arranged as the rainbow flag to protest for marriage equality in Australia. | [1][2][3] |
United Kingdom[edit]
| Name | Founded by | Price | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brick or Potato | Robbie and Justin Holt in Musbury in Devon, England | £6.99 | Brick or Potato gives the option to choose between a brick or a potato. | [4][5][6][7] |
| Potato in the Post | Game tester Adrian Nantchev of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England | £5.99 | Nantchev claims that profits for the first three months totaled to over £12,000 | [8][9][5][10] |
United States[edit]
| Name | Founded by | Price | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous Potato | $6.50* | Allows you to choose between "regular" or "large" tubers. *with purchase of Groupon that marks off 50% |
[11][5][12] | |
| Coolballs.net | [5] | |||
| Mail A Spud | Sean Din in Brooklyn, New York, United States | $9.99 or $10 | First company to deliver potatoes but initially with no personalized message. | [13][14][15][16][17][5][18][19][20] |
| Mystery Potato | $7.99 or $8 Larger potatoes: $9.99 |
After two months, the owner could not keep up with demand and sold the website to former Expedia engineer and manager Jeff Kelly and retired former Cast for Kids foundation CEO Jim Owens. Mystery Potato also allows shipments of boxes of potatoes. | [12][20][21][22][5][10] | |
| Potato.gift | [5] | |||
| Potato Parcel | Alex Craig of North Texas, United States | $7.99 (or $8) or $9.99 (or $10) | First company that delivered potatoes to advertise personalized messages. | [12][14][18][19][20] |
| Tatergram | [5] | |||
| Text a Potato | Text a Potato allows you to text message your inscription onto a potato. | [5] |
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References[edit]
- ↑ Buaya, Alisha; Bhole, Aneeta; Geary, Belinda Grant (September 24, 2015). "Australian potato messaging entrepreneurs take 1000 specially painted spuds to Parliament House so that they can show their support for marriage equality". Mail Online. Daily Mail and General Trust. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Payne, Nicholas (August 25, 2015). "Personalised potato messenger service takes off for Christian College students". Geelong Advertiser. News Corp. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Sainty, Lane (September 23, 2015). "These Teens Made A Giant Pride Flag Out Of Potatoes To Support Marriage Equality". BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed Inc. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Kenyon, Ben (October 12, 2015). "New website lets you send friends or enemies a brick or potato". JOE. JOE.co.uk. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Saxena, Jaya (February 29, 2016). "Every single website that mails messages on potatoes". The Daily Dot. DailyDot.com. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Scott, Ellen (October 9, 2015). "Website lets you send your friends a brick or a potato with a message". Metro News. Metro International. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Walsh, Clare (November 19, 2015). "Brick Or Potato website allows customers to gift either item anonymously". Mail Online. Daily Mail and General Trust. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Gilmour, Paisley (December 10, 2015). "Man makes £1000 a week sending potatoes in the post". Reveal.co.uk. Reveal. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Fricker, Martin; King, Jess (December 9, 2015). "How personalised POTATO business is raking in £1,000 a week for young entrepreneur". Mirror.co.uk. Daily Mirror. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Truong, Alice (March 13, 2016). "A business that sends messages on potatoes makes $25,000 a month and is inspiring copycats". Quartz. Atlantic Media Co. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Mauney, Matt (January 13, 2016). "7 strange Groupon Goods for sale". Orlando Sentinel. tronc. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Wang, Jackie (February 14, 2016). "Send your friends (or enemies) a potato for a bargain". austin360. Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Beattie, Andrea (November 11, 2015). "These Quirky Businesses Are Just Too Brilliant To Fail". The Huffington Post Australia. The Huffington Post. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Burke, Kathleen (August 26, 2015). "People are spending $14 to send message-bearing potatoes". MarketWatch. Dow Jones & Company. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Escamilla, Rebecca (March 24, 2015). "Mail a Spud, A Service That Mails an Unpackaged, Stamp-Covered Potato to Anyone in the United States". Laughing Squid. Laughing Squid LLC. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- ↑ Hailey, Caroline (September 14, 2015). "7 Dumb Ways People Make Money". GOBankingRates. ConsumerTrack Inc. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Pomranz, Mike (March 25, 2015). "Finally We Can Send Unpackaged Potatoes in the Mail for Just $10". Food & Wine. Time Inc. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Thompson, Elaine (June 3, 2016). "Potato passes postal policy muster in Southbridge". Telegram & Gazette. GateHouse Media. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Volkman, Elliot (November 27, 2015). "Forget Holiday Cards, Send a Potato". Tech Cocktail. Tech.Co. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Woolf, Nicky (January 26, 2016). "When cards won't do the trick, say it with a potato in the mail". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Falletta, Augusta (January 29, 2016). "This Company Ships Potato Love Notes To Your Friends For $8". BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed Inc. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Horan, Molly (February 2, 2016). "This Personalized Potato Is The Most Unexpected Valentine's Day Gift". Refinery29. R29 News. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
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