I got a package from “Mr Secret Santa” in the mail today; but the package was strangely familiar, I wasn’t sure why.

To give you some context my girlfriend and I both participated to this Secret Santa edition. I posted both packages, so to be sure I was sending the right package to the right match I wrote the initials of each match on their package.

After inspecting the package I got to understand why it looked familiar, I saw the initials I wrote on the package I sent to my match. The adhesive tape was the same, and if you look closely at the package you see the previous sticker from the postal service was carefully removed with a cutter.

To add more confusion, my Secret Santa wrote their address as “Mr Secret Santa, 92 bvd reddit, 75014 Paris”. The last part (postal code and city) match exactly where my girlfriend’s match lives so I was confused and at some point thought her match was my Secret Santa and/or that they didn’t understand how things worked and thought their Secret Santa was their match (I listed myself as both packages’ sender at the postal office).

Anyway so I opened the package in which my Santa included two books, “What If?” by Randall Munroe, the same book I offered them (but a different format) and the French translation of “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (both my Santa/match and I are French speaker), for which I greatly thank my Santa because the first book seems so interesting (which is why I offered them in the first place) and the second one was sitting in my Amazon whishlist since 2012 or so.

With these two books (and a sticker) was a note mimicking the one I sent them. I drew a Snoo head on the right; they did the same. I started with “Merry Christmas from a fellow redditor!”; they did the same. They even copied the text I wrote about the Munroe book. The rest of the letter is in French. At the end, an important detail is a drawing of a Minecraft pickaxe; Minecraft being one of the games I listed in my presentation. This confirms my match was indeed my Santa.

Thanks again Kippyll!