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Did you know you can mail potatoes without packaging them?

Rob Beschizza
Apr 18, 2025
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Photo: USPS

One may mail potatoes simply by writing the destination on the potato, weighing the potato, then paying the appropriate postage. The potato will be conveyed thence to its destination by the hardworking men and women of the United States Postal Service. [via Hacker News]

It's SPUDTACULAR! As with coconuts, potatoes can be mailed without a box. …

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