Naked Mail Banana

My friend Dez is momentarily out of the world working on her yoga teaching certification. She's sequestered here for three months with a 5:30 wake up call, limited telephone access, & a lack of my nonsense . Obviously, it's time for naked mail.

For the first month she was away, I waited for the right object. It had to be intriguing but inexpensive, in case it didn't make it through. It also needed enough surface area to write at least an address & (of course) it had to be write-on-able. Then one day, in a moment of perfect revelation, I came across a box full of fake food at the dollar store. Plastic bananas are good stuff.

One thing I was decidedly unsure about was how much postage a banana needs. I think I ended up using about $2.10 even though it was a light banana. I figured that a banana without packaging & no return address would have enough trouble on it's way through the post without the possibility of underpaying for it's ride.

Apparently, banana mail is takes around the same time as regular mail. It arrived two or three days after I sent it with no noticable dents or difficulty.

One concern I had was that the address might rub off as the banana went through the mail. For a longer distance mailing I'd probably use some kind of sealant over the writing.