Nothing says love like carbs (Picture: potatoparcel.com)

Greeting cards are dead. Long live the potato-gram.

Alex Craig is an entrepreneur who’s made over $30,000 (around £19,000) in the last three months, through his new genius/ridiculous venture: sending personalised potatoes in the post.

Potato Parcel is, as the name would suggest, a new service that allows you to ship potatoes to all your loved ones.

Whatever the heartfelt sentiment, Alex will hand-write it upon the potato, making it the perfect gift for literally every occasion.


Someone’s leaving the office? Potato. Birthday? Potato. Proposal? Potato.

You simple take your pick from a medium potato (£7), or a large (£9), and write your message in under 140 characters.



Alex even offers up some handy message suggestions, in case the words just aren’t coming.

Because really, the only way to express love/sexual health news/eviction notices is via the medium of the potato.

Also good for break-ups (Picture: potatoparcel.com)

Alex came up with the idea while out at dinner with his girlfriend, who said: ‘You will not sell a single potato. This is the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard.’

Of course, he rose to the challenge, promoted the business on Reddit, and received $2,000 in orders on the second day of being up and running.

Obviously, the best use of Potato Parcel is for sharing all the puns you couldn’t find the means to express before.

Plus, your lucky recipient can scrub the potato, slice it up, and make it into chips.

Because as we all know, true love can only be expressed through carbs.

It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

Potato Parcel is now available in the UK, too, so you can send all the potato-y messages your heart desires.

Post them to everyone: friends, enemies, your boss.

Everyone’s day is improved by a potato.

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