Ripley’s just wrapped up its 2nd annual Strange Mail Contest — in which participants from all over the world test the limits of the U.S. Postal Service and send the weirdest things they can get away with.

Ripley disqualified 26 items (mostly because the post office bagged them as protection—complete with apology letters) = 13% of total. “We want to give a lot of credit to the U.S. Postal Service,” Meyer said. “They delivered some very strange and sometimes very fragile items a long way with a 99 percent success rate.”

From Huffington Post:
No one wins any awards for sending spam about the latest lucrative business opportunities from Nigerian princes or anti-Obama jokes from your uncle’s old Navy buddy.

But get a real piece of junk shipped through snail mail and glory awaits at the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not annual Strange Mail Contest.

Participants sent things like a tree trunks and prosthetic arm to the Orlando, Florida, headquarters of Ripley’s. There was a catch: The items could not be packaged in a box, envelope or any wrapping of any kind, and the postage and address must be placed directly on the item.

Strangest Things Sent In The Mail