When is spam not spam
I was going through my email this morning when I came across one that had been sent yesterday with an odd sender's name and the subject 'Your order Ref [number]'. I presumed it was spam but moused over the sender's name and it came up as UK Mail which is a courier company. I opened it up and it was notifying me that my order would be delivered today. Except that I hadn't ordered anything! Still assuming it was spam, I found UK Mail's actual website and put in the tracking number supplied just out of curiosity. I fully expected it to say that it didn't recognise the number but it actually confirmed that there was a delivery coming today! It didn't say who it was from or where it was going to. I was even more baffled by now and presumed there'd been a mix-up somewhere and someone had typoed their email address so it had come to me by mistake.
I was just sitting down for tea when the doorbell rang. Sure enough, there was a deliveryman with a large box addressed to me! Bafflement level had gone through the roof at this point so I eagerly opened the parcel to discover a teapot! And suddenly, all became clear.
Cravendale milk has been running a thing for months where you collect codes from off their labels and use them on their website to enter raffles. I'd entered a few recently but hadn't heard anything so I presumed I'd not won. Except that I apparently had! I'd entered the raffle for a teapot way back in November and somehow they'd neglected to tell me I'd won it so I just got a random surprise teapot in the post! Well, there are far worse things to get in the post. I think it's a good job I'm English though, so random surprise teapots can only be seen as a Good Thing.
I was just sitting down for tea when the doorbell rang. Sure enough, there was a deliveryman with a large box addressed to me! Bafflement level had gone through the roof at this point so I eagerly opened the parcel to discover a teapot! And suddenly, all became clear.
Cravendale milk has been running a thing for months where you collect codes from off their labels and use them on their website to enter raffles. I'd entered a few recently but hadn't heard anything so I presumed I'd not won. Except that I apparently had! I'd entered the raffle for a teapot way back in November and somehow they'd neglected to tell me I'd won it so I just got a random surprise teapot in the post! Well, there are far worse things to get in the post. I think it's a good job I'm English though, so random surprise teapots can only be seen as a Good Thing.