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I had just discovered this yesterday, so I was glad to have been able to participate and PastaDrop my sister with randomness, which actually is quite fitting due to our appreciation for the absurd! I’m excited for see what she gets! Best of luck in whatever future endeavors this entity decides to create.
This is a bummer. The spaghettini I sent to my brother hasn’t even arrived yet and this experiment is coming to a close. By the time his coupon arrives, it might be sold out.
@revmem looking back at the sales post. It doesn’t actually say that the random noodles will necessarily be part of the kind already sent. They could be using the random week to send out the pasta that they didn’t have as much stock of. So I suppose it is theoretically possible they have some macaroni in there somewhere.
I dare not send it to my wife to find out… Don’t wanta pasta point of no return. So sending to family member. May trade with them if they get something interesting.
This has been so much fun. I’ve pasta dropped friends who got 180 lbs. Dropped my family who are still reeling from the copious amount of noods they have to get through. Even convinced a decent number of friends to play along. This has been a hysterical little adventure. Thanks guys!
I’d love to say farewell, it has been fun, but I cannot justify $20 on 10# of pasta. That was beyond mediocre. So whoever gets my other 10# of spaghettini, enjoy!
@KNmeh7 I also dropped a couple of times, myself and a friend. It’s a really cute idea, but they should have said right at the start that it would be between 10 and 100 lb. I dropped before they said that it could be a random number, this being a discounted site I never dreamed that I’d be paying $2 a pound for plain pasta. I love not knowing how much a person could receive, but if they said right at the start it could be as little as 10 lb, I could have made a better choice. I suspect all of the drops now will be around 10 lb because there’s no motivation for them to drop a large amount.
@KNmeh7 but that’s the fun of the “experiment.” If you only did it for you to stick up on your own drygoods then you missed part of the point.
I’m currently in a silly giddy mood because my brothers surprise pasta order is out for delivery and can’t wait to see/hear his reaction to a random box of pasta showing up and how much he might get. I assume his family will eat it too, at some point, but that’s not the point as much as the fun silly surprise from my standpoint lol. Maybe the apocalypse has made me desperate for outside entertainment so I’m easy .
That said, I also did prefer some for myself as well. First week I only got 10# spaghetti. Not the best deal but still a decent price overall for 10# delivered. Second (or 3rd?) I used the vmp coupon code for the first 100 of the day for a free order and just today got delivery of 40#s of linguini. So I’ve ended up with 50 pounds of pasta for $20 which is a pretty good deal in my opinion. And I’ve ordered this random one for more fun. Partly because I figured I’d they are done with the experiment they might clear house of ALL that they have left in the warehouse which might mean many big orders for another great deal that I can then share with friends/family/charity. It I might end up with 10#s lol. But it was fun and value for me .
The brother in law in the Navy needs this. His cupboards have to be about 90% condiments and beer. It’s time for that to change.
/giphy sinkable-arid-behavior
So I guess PastaDrop was a simulacrum of the entire world lately, which is to say it was needlessly frustrating and only fun if you enjoy watching idiots run around freaking out about stuff.
Still… in for one, just for old time’s sake.
/giphy white-deadly-beggar
My 10 lb drop of penne was last seen in grapevine on the 2nd. If I had a reasonable expectation that this would be 20 lbs or more, and maybe that it would arrive before August, I might order a drop direct to my 11 year old niece. If there are more pasta types possible, maybe that should be said, maybe even list the possible types, and you’d would probably get more people to order.
In the spirit of the thing I’m not sending this one to myself. My coworker mentioned tonight that they didn’t have much food at home so I’m sending noods to his girlfriend.
in for two. one for a friend, one for us. really hoping we’re getting more than 10 pounds this time, and kind of bummed I missed the window to pick from the pasta weeks pasta selections…but fate will decide.
Soooo I don’t think there is a rule against this, and Meh made the wildly inaccurate and outrageous assumption that I had friends to begin with, so maybe some strangers can use these. Shame the game is over though, I was hoping for Elbows or Buccatini.
Oh no! All good things come to an end, I guess. My pasta-loving office mate got 20 lbs. of penne rigate which was fun but not over the top. I hope my daughter gets a MASSIVE amount because she loves absurdity.
Soo I finally got here early enough to use my coupon code and while I had planned on sending it to my brother and family I sent it to myself. Oh well, I can hand deliver the contents haha
Meanwhile still waiting for my sister to receive hers from the first drop
So I was going to grab, but wanted to use my coupon code from my first box, but it’s telling me invalid coupon code. Can we not use coupons on this last box? (it’s only $5,but I figured I’d ask)
My order finally arrived today. Over a month after I placed the order. The box was beaten up and the pasta bag was torn open across almost the entire top of the bag.
Boo Pasta Drop!!
Hoping I get more than 1 box sooo bad. Need at least 4. Going to set a box on my parents porch, both of my grandparents front door, and hopefully a box for myself. Not planning on telling them anything and let them think wtf when they see a random box of pasta LOL
My sister was delighted by her penne (and her kids are making pasta jewelry out of it as I speak), so now my brother is gonna get some random pasta for his two teenaged boys to devour. I’m hoping my order number is prophetic and they end up with a near everlasting amount of unknown pasta!
I’m just curious exactly how many PastaDrop boxes were ordered and if they were worth having specialty boxes printed. Also, if there are extras when all said and done, will we be getting our meh orders in PD boxes? That would be confusing and exciting.
Ordered this for my daughter at college, it should arrive right around her 21st birthday. Please send something hangover palliative with really clear instructions.
I ordered for a friend of mine whose family barely has enough to get by. She’s disabled and has three teenagers. I figure if anybody can use a random pasta drop, it’s them. I hope they get oodles of noodles.
Welp, I think I bought the rest… still had four more people I planned to send random amounts of pasta to. Time to head back over to the mehrathon and see what’s the best equivalent to 20 pounds of pasta.
Oh wow, I did not think they would sell out, would just divide whatever was left amongst however many orders. Guess I was wrong. Barely got my order in.
/giphy Don’t forget to turn off the lights on your way out
Just received an email about this pasta drop from Meh a couple hours ago, click on it and it’s sold out. What’s with sending the emails 4 days after the drop?
Thank you everyone for participating in our dispersal of much pasta. We hope you and your friends continue to enjoy the eventual deliveries, as incredibly slow as they may be.
If you have an UNUSED PastaDrop-site specific coupon (or are in touch with your recipient who has one) hold onto them. We’re discussing methods to allow this to be used elsewhere, though keep in mind it’ll be one-per account (give away extras with pasta it comes with).
@snapster thank you. Love the fun and excitement of this experiment, not to mention the bulk pasta that comes in handy for this modern apocalypse. Hopefully pastadrop, or something very similar, comes about again from the team. I don’t know if it was profitable for you guys or not but it was very cool and a great icebreaker to introduce mediocre to friends and family.
@snapster Thank you for this weird and awesome experiment! Reactions to the site from family members have been “Wait this is hilarious”, “Ummm for some reason I’m tempted by this?”, and “what a stupid idea that I adore”
Also, what a creative idea to keep people employed and to benefit people in need (Equal Heart). Kudos to you and the team!
@snapster This was great, thank you for doing it! Was able to get some pasta out to friends that would not only think it’s bizarre/fun, but who also could use it. Loved this idea!!!
@snapster It was fun to explain to my letter carrier what was going on. He was very excited and wrote it down. I hope he ordered. When he brought the second delivery of a hundred pounds of pasta my wife tipped him ten pounds of pasta. She’s more thoughtful than I am, obviously.
aw poop. I was about to send someone else some more pasta. This was definitely great fun. I still can’t believe I spent over $100 sending people pasta.
Drat. Too long to decide who and how many for the randoms. Thanks for the pasta fun and donations to be delivered. I sent to myself but most has been or will be given away.
This fun experiment will be more fun when my kids actually receive the PastaDrop. What’s up with the vague tracking process though? My boys live in an apartment building and being able to have a heads up on the actual day the package is expected to get there would have been really helpful.
@iowajason if you enter the tracking number on USPS you can get updates on your phone when expected delivery day changes. You’ll only get 24 hrs notice or so because USPS only does the last mile delivery.
@iowajason@OnionSoup almost. my delivery for monday arrived today(saturday). I did receive a “delivered” text message as the femailman was carrying the box to the porch.
Just in time! I sent one to a friend week one, and after the long delay she still never got it. Turned out I sent it to the wrong address and finally re-sent it yesterday. I love this pop-up idea.
Reading back through, I’ve seen a lot of complaints from those who received 10-lb. shipments. But the only way to see the incredibly funny stories of someone being blitzed by 200 lb. shipments is for some people to get less than the value amount.
Let’s assume for a second that 20 lbs. for $20 is the price – including averaging packaging, shipping costs beyond VMP membership, web site development costs, customer support, carrying charges, etc. – at which Mediocre makes reasonable money on the ordeal (they’re not a charity).
If true (and it seems pretty reasonable on back of napkin), this means that for every 40 lb. box that goes out the door, 2 people must get 10 lbs. For every 100 lb. shipment that goes out the door, 8 people must get 10 lbs. For every 200 lb. shipment that goes out the door, 18 people must get 10 lbs.
Then we have to address the probability of getting larger shipments. So let’s just assume (no idea if this is anywhere near what they’re using) that the probability model is built such that for every 5 20 lb. boxes, there’s a 40 lb. shipment, and that for every 5 40 lb. shipments, there’s a 100 lb. shipment, and that for every 5 100 lb. shipments, there’s a 200 lb. shipment.
With that distribution, for each 200 lb. shipment you’d end up with 125 20-lb., 25 40-lb., 5 100-lb., and 1 200-lb. shipment. And 108 people would have to bear the 10 lb. burden so that others get more. These ratios can be adjusted, but in the end, there are a significant number of people who have to get 10 lb. shipments. Mediocre can’t just go to 20 lb. minimum, because then they don’t have anyone to balance the big shipments, and then they just go to straight sales of 20 lbs.
There was no guarantee that you’d get a super awesome value deal, it was $20 for a random amount of pasta. Looking back, I might have suggested that they enforce shipping to a different address than the billing address (to push the intended “send pasta to someone else”).
Was I disappointed to get 10 lbs. on my first 2 shipments? I would have preferred more. My tube-noodle shipments were out of whack with my string-noodle shipments, and I like tube-noodles more! But that was the price of playing, and 10 lbs. of pasta for $20 isn’t too far out of whack for a pasta lottery. Imagine if “random” meant they would ship you everything from a single-serving to a pallet-load?
The only other solution is to raise the minimum to 20 lbs., but then they’d be raising the price and we’d still see complaints that someone paid $30 for only 20 lbs., etc.
Bottom line - it’s a pasta lottery. Some people have to get 10 lbs. for others to get 100 lbs. Otherwise, it’s just a straight sale of pasta. I was a bit deflated after my first 2 shipments were 10 lbs. shipments, but it was fun nonetheless. I was excited when the ziti arrived @ 20 lbs., then 40 lbs. of linguine showed up. Before they nerfed the package weights on PB’s site, I saw that spaghetti appears to be 100 lbs. - it’s taking a vacation in Indiana right now. My sister got 40 lbs., my brother got 20 lbs., and my boss, my brother-in-law, and two of our friends still are outstanding, along with the 3 random pasta shipments I ordered. Some is going to food bank, some is going to a neighborhood bring-your-own-sauce pasta party (I think).
@yakkoTDI I saw that article, it doesn’t change anything even if break-even is the goal. You still have to cover all the same costs (packaging / shipping / IT / etc.), just removing a profit. And the core premise is still true - if <x> pounds is the break-even point for $20, then someone has to get less than <x> for others to get more than <x>. For people to get humorous amounts of pasta (10x), you’ll need a lot of people to get less than <x> to make up for it.
My friends still don’t suspect me. They’ve started referring to the mystery sender as “Straganonymous”. All this is to say that clearly pastadrop was my best quarantine impulse buy.
@katzchen mine hasn’t. Supposedly this past Monday was when shipping was going to start. I don’t know if it’s shipped and we haven’t been notified (going through different carrier so might not be connected to website right)… Or if it just hasn’t shipped yet.
Two shipments for my random order just showed up in FedEx tracking. Plus 3 spaghetti shipments trickled in, no damage. Life is good! (assuming quality of life is proportional to the amount of pasta in one’s possession).
@Vrysen Interesting. I just got a FedEx update myself this morning. Also have a 6x4x1 (inches) box - but it also shows 1 lb., so I’d guess that maybe they’re using placeholder info?
That used to happen to me with SmartPost shipping info for pre-Amazon BOCs. I’d get a 10" square box with 1 lb. on the weight - then receive a box that was much larger and heavier.
If that is 200 pounds, as I expect, it means I paid $80 for 340 pounds of pasta. Which means my sister got 10 pounds, our letter carrier got 10 pounds, my wife and I got 40 pounds, and the local homeless shelter gets 280 pounds.
People getting all these shipments and once again, I get one. Seriously, pastadrop? Who wronged you as a child? And if over my two orders I end up with under 20# of pasta when all these xanax-white-wine housewife morningsave shoppers are getting hundreds of pounds, it might be time to realize this conglomerate isn’t for me.
I’ll cancel my VMP, become a member and buy shitty cosmetics if you actually send me a pasta drop, not a pasta drip.
I just wish that I had a tracking number. I have faith that they’ve been labeled and are on a truck waiting for FedEx to pick them up, but something to give me a warm an fuzzy feeling would be nice.
@Willijs3 VMP since '14? Congrats on getting your 10 pounds. Those coupons don’t pay for themselves. As for every member that happens to be from june (no loyalty) they are getting hundreds of pounds.
@KNmeh7 I can’t say I’ve had the same experience. However none of the drops I purchased were for me. I’ve sent each one to a different address. The first one was 2 shipments totalling 20# sent to a family member, the second was one shipment of 40# to a co-worker. This one is to a friend. I’m really hoping it’s a fair amount.
@Willijs3 Just got notification from PastaDrop that my order has shipped. FedEx shows that they have received the package. I show only one package, but based on my previous experience with the spaghettini, there might be other packages PastaDrop is not telling me about. And since I ship to a UPS store, I can’t set up a FedEx account to gain additional insight.
@KNmeh7, as far as seniority vs. amount, you can see I’ve been a VMP since the beginning. I got 40 pounds of the spaghettini, 20 pounds of the penne rigata, and unknown amount of this order. And some fun; I kept 10 pounds of each and donated the rest to Martha’s Kitchen.
@KNmeh7@Willijs3 I dumped my VMP a while back due to my credit card being replaced and forgot to renew it so I’m just a lowly Member but I’ve been here since 2015 and got 10, 20 and 100lbs of pasta in the 3 drops I got
@whiskeyish Don’t be sad, that one pound box is probably a FedEx placeholder weight. It should update to the real weight sometime in its travels. Sometimes you won’t find out the weight of your pasta until it is delivered.
Also while looking at the other PastaDrops, the least amount that has been sent out is ten pounds. While ten pounds is not a big amount, by any means, it is larger than one pound
@Noddy93 One of my orders as well… however, 4 other orders are still in a holding pattern, they must be metering them so they don’t kill FedEx out of TX.
Mine arrived today. 33 pounds of pasta. 13 pounds of fettuccine, 10 pounds of ziti and 10 pounds of spaghetti. At least the fettuccine is in convenient 1 pound packets. The other two are going to a homeless shelter kitchen.
ad this to the 10lbs of free Spagehttini and 40lbs of Penne received by a friend and it’s been okay for the $40 spent. nothing exciting except for the switch to FedEx making the 100-mile trip to my home one of the fastest rather than the regular slowest by the old shipping methods.
For one of the shipments, I received one box, 33 lbs. In it was 13 pounds of fettuccine, 10 pounds of ziti, and 10 pounds of linguine. As noted a couple comments above, the fettuccine was in 1-pound packets, the ziti and linguine were in the same 10-pound bags.
First time ever the FedEx truck backed into my driveway, LOL. 9 of my 10 boxes were delivered. 297 pounds of pasta - not bad for $20. Assuming the 10th box will also have the template 33lbs but I will see tomorrow. OMG, what if that 10th “box” is really a pallet?!
@cbilyak This is the kind of absurdity I want my friend to get in his order. People around the office are still laughing at the 100 lbs of Ziti he received already.
@chuegen I left the pile conspicuously placed on the counter to wait for the reaction, then went back upstairs to the office. Just got a text: “omg pasta.”
@awk During the random drops, I placed 5 orders. One was delivered yesterday, another received its wheels last night and started on its way to the recipient in VA, and there are 3 more to shake loose yet.
Mine just shipped, and it is 1 box that is 1lb and the box is 6"x4"x1". I’m hoping there is more on its way, or my brother is going to think I’m crazier than he did before once he finds out it was $20.
@KCountry Those are placeholder values. Boxes that arrived yesterday still showed 1 lb, 6x4x1. They were actually 33 lbs, and were considerably bigger than 6x4x1.
@KCountry We won’t know if they use the same pattern until the next batches show up… but I’d say that disappointment is unlikely to be in the cards based on yesterday, where minimum has been ~33 lbs.
@Kyeh When you create an account, you have to prove that you live at that residence. If you shipped it to a friend/relative/enemy it won’t work. But it’s useful if you get a lot of stuff shipped to your own house.
@chuegen Weird, mine still doesn’t show any “shipment facts” - it doesn’t even have that tab!
Oh, wait, never mind, I found it. It shows only 1 lb! I hope that’s not true…
@chuegen I did see that some people got only 10 lbs. though - that would be a little disappointing since some got such a ridiculously huge amount - I think it would be a blast to get a lot, and then share it around!
my last two orders–one to my dog–have shipped. both show the placeholder values of 6x4x1 and one pound…hopefully it’s a nice bunch of pasta. our first order of penne–for us–was only 10 pounds, but friends we sent to got 40 of linguine and 20 of spaghetti.
I still can’t believe my sister in law REFUSED her 100 pounds of spaghetti. grrr.
@Unknownie I didn’t want to ruin anyone’s surprises… We ended up with 135 lbs of fettuccine, 100 lbs of linguine, 100 lbs of penne!! I woulda taken pictures, but it was raining.
The homeless shelter is getting at least 150lbs of pasta. Thank you all!
Much better experience this time! 2 big boxes, looks like 2x10 lbs bags just labeled “pasta” (spaghetti, right?), 26x1 lbs packs of fettucini, and 2x10 lbs bags of penne. More importantly, only about 3 weeks to process and deliver instead of a month and a half. If the couple of orders I gifted are similar, I’d definitely do it again.
I have the perfect amount of spaghetti and way-way too much ziti from earlier orders so I sent random pasta to a friend instead of to myself…but it’s just so exciting to watch and wait.
@megania@MrMikenIkes
200 lbs delivered over 5 different days over 2 weeks just overwhelmed him, it wasn’t funny anymore as he had to trek to the mail room and get them each time
@Cerridwyn@MrMikenIkes oh, wow! That’s too bad. I had two delivery days with the ziti…but I’m the one who ordered it, so it was a surprise and it wasn’t. I had so much fun, I kind of wish I had sent some random to myself…but I have so much pasta already that I’m just living vicariously through my unsuspecting friend.
@Cerridwyn
well, the reason it didn’t show delivered is apparently 7 more boxes came yesterday. Someone must have been there to let the guy deliver. I got a picture from the person who came in this morning to get something.
more pasta opening fun tomorrow.
gotta take your fun these days where you can.
I hope I hit the fettuccine jackpot lol. I was waiting for that one to be announced before the notice that the pastadrop end was here . Then I got excited seeing the first deliveries getting some fettuccine! My luck I’ll get only spaghetti or something in my order .
Ugh. My package has been on a FedEx truck for two days now. Out for delivery they say. End of day they say. Most irritating thing ever.
Anyone else with this issue??
I sent my order to a local breadline. Per the tracking, it turned out to be exactly 1 pound of pasta. If that’s not the ultimate IRK of pasta, I dont know what is
@togle That’s a placeholder value and very likely not the actual amount. I got one tracking number which indicated one box and 1 pound, but I got two big boxes and a total of 66 pounds!
@eric1024 In further reading through the comments here, it looks like I may not be seeing the actual shipment weight/quantity because I shipped it to an address other than my own? I was really looking forward to seeing how much (pounds, I know I won’t know exactly what types) pasta they received
@togle I didn’t get the actual weight/quantity and I did ship it to my own address. Others have said that eventually the stats are updated to the correct numbers, but mine haven’t even after delivery, so not sure if that happens every time.
@eric1024@sammydog01 It feels kind of gauche to contact them and be like, “I sent you a donation! I did, I really did! Didja like it! Was it wonderful! I bet it was wonderful, right??? So, uh, what was it?”
@sammydog01 But also yes, Im afraid to ask and it have really been one pound. A box containing one pound of pasta with which I included the note, something like, “Anonymous donation. Enjoy!”
@eric1024@sammydog01@togle
You should ask! Let them in on the fun of it. My mail carrier loved the story behind the heavy box of pasta she had to haul around.
Received my drop, random indeed! I was excited to see fettuccine labels. There’s
a 10 lb bag of spaghetti, and 13 1 lb bags of fettuccine, and a 10 lb bag of penne tucked in there too.
Got the notification that my package (which I sent to my wife with a Happy Birthday message) had been delivered by Fedex to my front door. Weird, I didn’t see anybody walk up to my porch. Went out and looked and there was nothing there, though I did see on my Nest cam that a Fedex truck pulled up in front of a neighbor’s house around the time it said it was delivered. Texted the neighbor to see if she had received my package. In the meantime, I called Fedex to ask about it and they told me that they weren’t delivering it to my house, but to a local USPS facility for them to make the final delivery. They said that I should rest assured that the package was now in the hands of USPS, they guaranteed it. Well, shortly afterwards my neighbor responded and said that there were two large packages on their porch that “said something about ‘Hope you like pasta!’, and that we were lucky she liked us because she in fact did like pasta a lot!” (I will be sharing some with her for sure!). Retrieved the 2 large boxes from her porch.
Each large box had 2 smaller boxes inside.
Each large box contained:
1 x 10lb bag of Linguine
1 x 10lb bag of Penne
13 x 1lb bags of Fettuccine
So, I received a total of 66 lbs:
20 lbs Linguine
20 lbs Penne
26 lbs Fettuccine
My wife was not amused that I ordered MORE pasta on top of the previous 20lb shipment of Linguine!
Thanks Pastadrop!
The one I sent to a friend is due to be delivered on Monday, so we’ll see if he gets the same!
10 pounds of spaghetti
10 pounds of fettuccine
10 pounds of penne
I also bought the spaghetti and penne drops so the only new item was the fettuccine but that is the one my wife was hoping for so that is good. Thanks for the fun Pasta Drop. I figure the Roma company which services restaurants found they where sitting on tons of pasta with no restaurants to sale to when the Covid hit the fan so great idea grabbing some for us at a great price and while I am sad to see Pasta Drop go I am glad to see restaurants opening up again. Wish there was some way you could have gotten a hold of some of tons of milk they were dumping out that made my heart hurt to see that on the nightly news. Of course with how long Pitney Bowes takes the milk would have been so bad it would have turned to cheese at that point? Yeah, so thanks for sending this drop with Fedex and not that cluster fuck of a company you have been using lately.
Got my random drop today. 2 10# bags each of spaghetti and linguini. Planning to take it to the local foodbank. Husband says no, we may need it, so I’ll have to sneak it out.
It has arrived! 15 one-pound packages of fettuccine, a 10 lb bag of linguini, and a 10 lb bag of ziti! Already scarfing down a big bowl of creamy shrimp fettuccine right now!
Sent one to my friend, her husband posted it on facebook and lots of laughs were had. 3 10lb bags of spaghetti, a bunch of fettuccini. Very pleased … even if I never got my order from round 2.
2 final orders arrived today. Each was identical - 10 lbs. linguine, 30 lbs. spaghetti in 2 boxes for each. Looks like @bullrocky 's daughter ended up with the rest of the fettuccine that was appearing in the boxes earlier.
I didn’t know FedEx delivered on Sundays? Apparently my order that was supposed to arrive Tuesday, then Monday, decided, why wait, and delivered today.
Anyway.
2 ten pound bags of spaghetti
2 ten pound bags of linguine
29 one pound bags of fettuccine
69 pounds added to the 100 pounds of linguine I got previously.
I’m surprised I didn’t get any tubulars. Was looking forward to some variety. That’s ok cuz the one pound bags will be easier to give away. I’m tempted to just put them in random lockers at work.
The linguine will go to a food pantry or soup kitchen. I barely took a dent out of one of the ten pounders I got weeks ago.
I hit the motherload! The motherload hit me! I was out of town for the weekend and returned to a whopping ~250-300# of pasta at my doorstep. My house-watching in-laws were afraid someone hacked our Amazon account. Quick to discover the culprit once I figured out the meh relationship. Nine larger boxes of two sub-boxes, each of the 18 sub-boxes containing 13-20# of pasta. The pastabilities are endless!
There is a package on it’s way to my mother. In the detailed info on FedEx, it says one package. Does anyone know if multiple packages arrive that say only one will arrive?
Curious…am hoping she gets inundated but she would be so mad! haha…one package would be fine too though.
@Dakini Track by reference on fedex site will tell you how many packages were sent with your order. The tracking info showed one on my order as well but tracking shows 2
@turk911 Thanks. I just tried that and it comes up with nothing. I don’t have a fed ex account so maybe that is why. Oh well, I only have to wait til Thursday
@Dakini@turk911 You are a genius, thank you for sharing this hack. For those who can’t get it to work, there is a separate search by order reference number, you can’t just paste your confirmation number in the usual tracking form.
@Dakini@turk911 This is awesome - thanks! I had no idea this was possible. Checked the order I sent to my friend (which was supposed to be delivered today, but now presumably tomorrow) and there are 5 packages!
So I’m not sure if I should be relieved or disappointed that I only received 1 box containing 33 lbs of pasta. 10 lbs Penne and 23 lbs of Fettuccine. Seriously relieved I’m not the person who received 10 boxes - lol
I ordered a drop sent to my workplace since hours are short and money is tight for a lot of us. 5 boxes showed up today. Our FedEx guy wasn’t happy! We only opened the top two, both were 10# spaghetti and 13# fettuccine each. Tomorrow we’ll open the other 3, let my coworkers take what they want, and the rest will go to a local food bank. If all the boxes are the same that’s 115 pounds of pasta in one order.
I also ordered a drop to my house which is 23# of fettuccine and 10# of penne.
My sister in law got hers today. 40 pounds of spaghetti. Seems like some people have gotten a lot more and at least a variety. Was honestly hoping they’d have at least gotten a variety. And of course more but oh well, not horrible I guess.
Big thud at the front door today. Fedex dropped off 20lb of spaghetti and 20lb of linguine. No tubes or fettucini booster packs. Outer boxes were crushed (one looked like it had burst open and was retaped). Everything fine inside. Thanks for dropping some pasta, PastaDrop!
Pastadrop victims got their drops yesterday… buddy got 40 pounds and my sister got 100 pounds. Both were gobsmacked, so mission success. Thanks pastadrop, this was fun!! When are we gonna do saucedrop?
13x1lb fettucine, 10lb penne, 10lb what I assume is linguine (bag just says “pasta”) and it was all in good shape too. I was really hoping for some penne since I missed out on that drop. Got the variety I was hoping for and a quantity I can certainly live with, which erases any lingering grumpiness about the previous 10lb drop.
My VMP Pastadrop of excitement was delivered yesterday. Inside the one large box were two smaller boxes, one containing a 10lb bag of penne rigate & six 1lb packs of linguine, and the other one containing a 10lb bag of spaghetti & seven 1lb packs of linguine. Total was 33lbs of Roma 100% durum semolina pasta.
I cooked up half a pound of linguine last night for dinner, and it seemed just fine for human consumption. Guess there will be more pasta dinners in my future.
Most of my random drops have been delivered to my unsuspecting family across the us:
-cousin got 100lbs of spaghetti
-Mum got 50lbs of assorted fettuccine, linguini and spaghetti
-Aunt got 40lbs
-grandma got 50lbs as well (She couldn’t lift the 2 big boxes without opening them and making multiple trips but she was very happy about all the pasta)
4 pasta drops for a total of 240lbs of random pasta!!
Looks like all of mine have been delivered now (I think? One still shows “Shipped” but it was smartpost and USPS dropped off already… so we’ll see!) and all of my victims have gotten their goods. Overall I got about 314lbs of pasta, across 5 orders, with the bulk being linguine (or spaghetti, can’t tell the difference and they just say “Pasta” on the package) and fettuccini.
I’ve gotta say, I was pleasantly surprised. Good job Meh team, can’t wait for the next experiment!
PastaDrop success! My sister just received her multiple boxes with 100# of spaghetti and a whole box of the fettuccine booster packs. She thanked me for pasta’ing her into oblivion.
My front desk now thinks we’re crazy. 100# of pasta showed up here. All straight pastas (spaghetti/spaghettini/linguine, didn’t feel like disambiguating). Added to the linguine I’d ordered first, 120# of pasta for $20 total cause magic. Yes bot, it’s the a word.
Wowza! Mother load ! 25 1lb bags of fettuccine,
2 10lbs linguine, 2 10lbs bags of ziti. What a riot! 65lbs of pasta. So glad to have gotten the 1lb bags. I’m giving them to people wherever I go.
I did a self-drop, and got 40lbs, which is nice. But it fooled me … there were 4 of the non-huge boxes. I let them sit in quarantine for a while and finally opened them up today. Each one had one package of pasta and the rest (more than half) of the space filled with sealed air packing. There were two linguini and two (I think) spaghetti. It’s odd that it was shipped this way. So: not a ton of variety, and a lot of empty space and illusory packing, but still 40 lbs mostly to give away. Maybe entirely… this was my third drop (but my first to myself) – I was given 10 lbs out of one of the others, both of which were 20 lbs each.
Sister got 40 lbs of spaghetti and thought it was from a creepy realtor until I asked what she was having for dinner. B-I-L got a total of 40# (mixed spaghetti, fettuccine, and thin spaghetti but he knew it was us immediately. Our friends got 100# of the same type. Not sure what and I don’t want to press too much because they don’t seem super thrilled by it and don’t know it was us.
A coworker of mine is hoping for another run so she can drop some pasta on her brother.
This was fun!
I think a Fed-ex driver stole the pasta drop to my friend in Baltimore. The left a door tag stating they would try to deliver the following day, then tracking says just a few minutes later it was delivered.
Talked to Fed-ex rep on phone and even they said it was suspicious. I just sent an email to support, i’m hoping they might have some leftovers they could send again laying around cause I’d much rather her get some pasta then a refund.
NUTRITIONAL FACTS
Serving Size: 56g
The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
ALLERGENS
ESTIMATED DELIVERY
Monday, July 27th - Friday, July 31st
So no macaroni? No farfalla? No gasp cavatappi?
You’re bowing out?
Your boxes have Lasagna noodles on them. No lasagna?
I’m sad. It’s the end of an era.
@OnionSoup cavatappi is where it’s at.
Oh? And random pasta… Does that mean you get multiple kinds in one drop potentially?
Bye Bye Pasta Drop, Thy excessive carbs shall be missed
I had just discovered this yesterday, so I was glad to have been able to participate and PastaDrop my sister with randomness, which actually is quite fitting due to our appreciation for the absurd! I’m excited for see what she gets! Best of luck in whatever future endeavors this entity decides to create.
This is a bummer. The spaghettini I sent to my brother hasn’t even arrived yet and this experiment is coming to a close. By the time his coupon arrives, it might be sold out.
So sad, ending without elbows. But I could not resist, so sent to myself. I sure hope it’s a surprise. Nobody tell me, please.
@revmem maybe they will do elbows next year when everything shuts down for the ebola pandemic.
@revmem looking back at the sales post. It doesn’t actually say that the random noodles will necessarily be part of the kind already sent. They could be using the random week to send out the pasta that they didn’t have as much stock of. So I suppose it is theoretically possible they have some macaroni in there somewhere.
I dare not send it to my wife to find out… Don’t wanta pasta point of no return. So sending to family member. May trade with them if they get something interesting.
Oh and how much pasta are we getting?
that would ruin all the fun, no?
@OnionSoup Yes.
If your name is Al and you send some pasta, does it come Al Sente? Or is that too dumb to contemplate.
Darn it! I was hoping for some bow tie noods.
Will it be asbestos-free pasta?
Well pasta lavista baby
Very sad about the end. I am hoping for mostly ziti or penne. My brother and his family got his last Friday. I think this picture says it all
I’m new to this. Are you guys saying this experiment will be done soon?
@cgriff08 this week will be the final pasta drop.
@cgriff08 @Ignorant
or at the rate it is moving, people will get what they order in 2022
@Cerridwyn You’re more optimistic than me.
@Cerridwyn said optimistic in my head and typed pessimistic for some reason. Edited my post.
@Ignorant
/youtube 2525
@Cerridwyn @Ignorant as long as you’re not being pastamistic.
Target #1:
/giphy garish-gothic-custard
Target #2:
/giphy bullish-radical-coyote
Target #3:
/giphy inexpensive-vulnerable-salmon
as much as I bitch, and boy do I bitch… i just can’t help myself
/giphy drastic-ample-mink
This has been so much fun. I’ve pasta dropped friends who got 180 lbs. Dropped my family who are still reeling from the copious amount of noods they have to get through. Even convinced a decent number of friends to play along. This has been a hysterical little adventure. Thanks guys!
@Ebis 180 pounds in one drop? I thought 100 was the most anyone got.
@katbyter I thought that as well but I guess not. She got 9, 20 lb boxes on her porch.
One for the Brother-in-Law…
/giphy disturbing-contentious-shadow
and one for the friends who run an airbnb…
/giphy pale-usual-thread
Hmm. shoulda bought one last week when I could still pick the penne. Was holding out for some rotini though. Oh well, in for one to send to the kids.
Shipping confirmation seems sorta appropriate for the occasion…
/giphy lamentable-joyous-onion
…and brother-in-law:
/giphy disgusted-holy-screw
I’d love to say farewell, it has been fun, but I cannot justify $20 on 10# of pasta. That was beyond mediocre. So whoever gets my other 10# of spaghettini, enjoy!
@KNmeh7 I also dropped a couple of times, myself and a friend. It’s a really cute idea, but they should have said right at the start that it would be between 10 and 100 lb. I dropped before they said that it could be a random number, this being a discounted site I never dreamed that I’d be paying $2 a pound for plain pasta. I love not knowing how much a person could receive, but if they said right at the start it could be as little as 10 lb, I could have made a better choice. I suspect all of the drops now will be around 10 lb because there’s no motivation for them to drop a large amount.
@binkybear @KNmeh7 My friend had two drops this weekend one was 180#s and the other was 120#s
@binkybear @KNmeh7 @SamanthaWinney How close to the Meh.com do they live? Do people in fly over country get the big drops while the east coast goes hungry?
@KNmeh7 but that’s the fun of the “experiment.” If you only did it for you to stick up on your own drygoods then you missed part of the point.
I’m currently in a silly giddy mood because my brothers surprise pasta order is out for delivery and can’t wait to see/hear his reaction to a random box of pasta showing up and how much he might get. I assume his family will eat it too, at some point, but that’s not the point as much as the fun silly surprise from my standpoint lol. Maybe the apocalypse has made me desperate for outside entertainment so I’m easy
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That said, I also did prefer some for myself as well. First week I only got 10# spaghetti. Not the best deal but still a decent price overall for 10# delivered. Second (or 3rd?) I used the vmp coupon code for the first 100 of the day for a free order and just today got delivery of 40#s of linguini. So I’ve ended up with 50 pounds of pasta for $20 which is a pretty good deal in my opinion. And I’ve ordered this random one for more fun. Partly because I figured I’d they are done with the experiment they might clear house of ALL that they have left in the warehouse which might mean many big orders for another great deal that I can then share with friends/family/charity. It I might end up with 10#s lol. But it was fun and value for me
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
/giphy neutral-moral-mentalist
The brother in law in the Navy needs this. His cupboards have to be about 90% condiments and beer. It’s time for that to change.
/giphy sinkable-arid-behavior
Got some!!
@willdavi Good luck!
@willdavi
/giphy kissable-predominant-ground
Thank you, Pastadrop! Without you I never would have been able to drop 100 pounds of penne on my sister and unknown amounts on some food pantries.
/giphy hulking-defiant-corn
So I guess PastaDrop was a simulacrum of the entire world lately, which is to say it was needlessly frustrating and only fun if you enjoy watching idiots run around freaking out about stuff.
Still… in for one, just for old time’s sake.
/giphy white-deadly-beggar
In for all the pasta you want to send >.>
/giphy toothsome-smoggy-mint
I was hoping at some point I would have been able to get some stars for my chicken.
So, if this is the last one, what is the insert going to say? It’s not like they can drive traffic to the site and sell more pasta.
So long, and thanks for all the pasta.
/giphy quicker-wrenching-map
Apparently, I’ve been under a rock and only just realized this existed when its the final one.
my typical luck. Hope its a good one!!
/giphy savvy-sinister-place
Oh man. This has been my quarantine entertainment! Never imagined I would be sending noods!
@shyxgrl Well, you can always switch to sending that other type of noods. Guaranteed things will be entertaining there.
My penne order is STILL processing. I’m finding it tough to order this one even though I genuinely love the idea.
My 10 lb drop of penne was last seen in grapevine on the 2nd. If I had a reasonable expectation that this would be 20 lbs or more, and maybe that it would arrive before August, I might order a drop direct to my 11 year old niece. If there are more pasta types possible, maybe that should be said, maybe even list the possible types, and you’d would probably get more people to order.
Rest in pasta, PastaDrop
Well I already have over 200 pounds, not counting what I sent to other people…so of course I’m in on the final drop lol
In the spirit of the thing I’m not sending this one to myself. My coworker mentioned tonight that they didn’t have much food at home so I’m sending noods to his girlfriend.
/giphy somber-studious-salmon
in for two. one for a friend, one for us. really hoping we’re getting more than 10 pounds this time, and kind of bummed I missed the window to pick from the pasta weeks pasta selections…but fate will decide.
/giphy treacherous-fervent-room
/giphy heady-strange-reindeer
Soooo I don’t think there is a rule against this, and Meh made the wildly inaccurate and outrageous assumption that I had friends to begin with, so maybe some strangers can use these. Shame the game is over though, I was hoping for Elbows or Buccatini.
@Tiamat114 I used vile-joyful-nacho…thx!
@Tiamat114
I used Colorful-chatty-country.
Thank you!
@Tiamat114 I used phony-gregarious-brake. Thank you!
@Tiamat114
I used yielding-sparkling-water. Thanks Tia
@Tiamat114 I didn’t see any coupon codes in the pasta sent to myself, family, or friends. Oh well.
“This is the last drop” meanwhile the bottom of the page says next drop in 5 days 23 hours 6 minutes!?
Oh no! All good things come to an end, I guess. My pasta-loving office mate got 20 lbs. of penne rigate which was fun but not over the top. I hope my daughter gets a MASSIVE amount because she loves absurdity.
Soo I finally got here early enough to use my coupon code and while I had planned on sending it to my brother and family I sent it to myself. Oh well, I can hand deliver the contents haha
Meanwhile still waiting for my sister to receive hers from the first drop
@chellemonkey I deleted the email with the code after I didn’t get in the first week.
So I was going to grab, but wanted to use my coupon code from my first box, but it’s telling me invalid coupon code. Can we not use coupons on this last box? (it’s only $5,but I figured I’d ask)
@Jamileigh17
The code can only be used on the first PastaDrop order per account.
@FreePasta Oh, that makes sense. Thanks!
Hate to see it go, but love watching it walk away…
Wait, what?
/giphy mundane-lagging-sandman
Another friend, lol…
/giphy pristine-ruby-back
@chuegen This makes me feel strange
Well pastaminators i got drop two , today and well joke on myself there was ten boxes setting in front of the door
@kitkatkurtis ten of the 20lb boxes? That’s awesome.
Pasta, Rasta, shasta, awesome.
OWLS! TOWELS! JOWLS! AWESOME!
/giphy nocturnal-elegant-sock
/giphy fantabulous-minor-decision
/giphy worthy-responsive-feet
sent to my daughter for her 3rd anniversary
My order finally arrived today. Over a month after I placed the order. The box was beaten up and the pasta bag was torn open across almost the entire top of the bag.
Boo Pasta Drop!!
@gkrivin contact customer service. They can help.
@gkrivin @jaybird yeesh how many boxes?
Goddamnit. It was so fun the first time, we decided to choose another
victimlucky recipient. Here’s hoping they get a bunch./giphy tacky-uncanny-sign
@joelmw That’s a great giphy. I should build one for the office.
/image orange suppressed goat
/giphy orange suppressed goat
@moonhat is to blame!
Ordered this in case my brother’s spaghettini never gets to him. At least I’ll have some backup pasta.
I feel like this is the Instant Regret Kit of pasta. So of course I got some.
/giphy disillusioned-listless-magpie
Hoping I get more than 1 box sooo bad. Need at least 4. Going to set a box on my parents porch, both of my grandparents front door, and hopefully a box for myself. Not planning on telling them anything and let them think wtf when they see a random box of pasta LOL
Wait, this is over? I haven’t even gotten my order from the very FIRST week, the spaghettini, and it’s just over? Boo.
/giphy kindhearted-impressive-neck
I guess now is a great time to use my VMPASTA code. Now let’s see what this is all about.
Damn never a gf one.
I was disappointed with my Penne Pasta Drop, 10lbs was sent - $2 a pound. But I was happy for the other folks who had fun!
Linguine arrived today - 20lbs!
In for two random shipments, one for a friend and one for my wife’s birthday!
/giphy expensive-billowy-burrito
/giphy loopy-casual-fudge
/giphy fouled-uncanny-warthog
Just sent one to the Greater Cleveland Food Bank!
Even though my first one was delivered smashed and ripped open I’m in for another because it’s fun and PastaDrop is a generous sponsor of Equal Heart.
/giphy snobbish-versatile-roll
Ending already, and the two drops I ordered still haven’t reached their destinations. Almost amusing…
My sister was delighted by her penne (and her kids are making pasta jewelry out of it as I speak), so now my brother is gonna get some random pasta for his two teenaged boys to devour. I’m hoping my order number is prophetic and they end up with a near everlasting amount of unknown pasta!
/giphy everlasting-unknown-barley
I’m just curious exactly how many PastaDrop boxes were ordered and if they were worth having specialty boxes printed. Also, if there are extras when all said and done, will we be getting our meh orders in PD boxes? That would be confusing and exciting.
Why is this the last one?
@ThatNateGuy I think they ran out of pasta
@nnikish @ThatNateGuy Impastable!
Sending to niece that isn’t even one yet.
/giphy strong-honorable-sorcerer
And to a cousin
/giphy handsome-powerful-love
Wished there had been a gluten free, but it has been entertaining.
The shipping might draw out the entertainment till christmas!
/giphy flavored-lacy-sack
Ordered this for my daughter at college, it should arrive right around her 21st birthday. Please send something hangover palliative with really clear instructions.
I ordered for a friend of mine whose family barely has enough to get by. She’s disabled and has three teenagers. I figure if anybody can use a random pasta drop, it’s them. I hope they get oodles of noodles.
Is this what we’re doing? Ok then. OCD people, enjoy the pic.
Welp, I think I bought the rest… still had four more people I planned to send random amounts of pasta to. Time to head back over to the mehrathon and see what’s the best equivalent to 20 pounds of pasta.
Oh wow, I did not think they would sell out, would just divide whatever was left amongst however many orders. Guess I was wrong. Barely got my order in.
/giphy Don’t forget to turn off the lights on your way out
This means it’s really truly over
Unless… the counter on the bottom is accurate…
/giphy there’s still hope
Just received an email about this pasta drop from Meh a couple hours ago, click on it and it’s sold out. What’s with sending the emails 4 days after the drop?
@jayman007 It’s a conspiracy: the reminder email and the sellout are connected.
Just got this order number from the mehrathon
It worked!
Your order number is: formal-herbivorous-pasta
Would have been more fitting here
Thank you everyone for participating in our dispersal of much pasta. We hope you and your friends continue to enjoy the eventual deliveries, as incredibly slow as they may be.
If you have an UNUSED PastaDrop-site specific coupon (or are in touch with your recipient who has one) hold onto them. We’re discussing methods to allow this to be used elsewhere, though keep in mind it’ll be one-per account (give away extras with pasta it comes with).
@snapster thank you. Love the fun and excitement of this experiment, not to mention the bulk pasta that comes in handy for this modern apocalypse. Hopefully pastadrop, or something very similar, comes about again from the team. I don’t know if it was profitable for you guys or not but it was very cool and a great icebreaker to introduce mediocre to friends and family.
@snapster The coupons for other sites should still work right? I made other orders though and haven’t used them because dumb.
/giphy coupons
@dzieciom yes, good through year end
@snapster I WAS GONNA ORDER MORE PASTA!! AM I SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE STORE LIKE SOME FOOL AND CHOSE THE AMOUNT OF PASTA I WANT?!?!?!
@willdavi I am so happy with the hundreds of you who really had fun with this. Thanks for creating some laughter in a challenging time.
@snapster Thank you for this weird and awesome experiment! Reactions to the site from family members have been “Wait this is hilarious”, “Ummm for some reason I’m tempted by this?”, and “what a stupid idea that I adore”
Also, what a creative idea to keep people employed and to benefit people in need (Equal Heart). Kudos to you and the team!
POPSOCKETS! SPA KITS! POLLY POCKETS! AWESOME!
@snapster This was great, thank you for doing it! Was able to get some pasta out to friends that would not only think it’s bizarre/fun, but who also could use it. Loved this idea!!!
@snapster is there still candy corn left in the mediocre warehouse? Candycorndrop.com… just sayin… Thanks again for pastadrop. Was great fun.
@snapster It was fun to explain to my letter carrier what was going on. He was very excited and wrote it down. I hope he ordered. When he brought the second delivery of a hundred pounds of pasta my wife tipped him ten pounds of pasta. She’s more thoughtful than I am, obviously.
Oh NO!! I had more people to send to
It was fun while it lasted…
aw poop. I was about to send someone else some more pasta. This was definitely great fun. I still can’t believe I spent over $100 sending people pasta.
@ivannabc $280 here. Yeah, my friends are already looking at me silly and the biggest loads haven’t been delivered yet!
@chuegen @ivannabc I feel better about spending $140 on the pasta lottery now
Drat. Too long to decide who and how many for the randoms. Thanks for the pasta fun and donations to be delivered. I sent to myself but most has been or will be given away.
This fun experiment will be more fun when my kids actually receive the PastaDrop. What’s up with the vague tracking process though? My boys live in an apartment building and being able to have a heads up on the actual day the package is expected to get there would have been really helpful.
@iowajason if you enter the tracking number on USPS you can get updates on your phone when expected delivery day changes. You’ll only get 24 hrs notice or so because USPS only does the last mile delivery.
Not ideal, but better than nothing.
@iowajason @OnionSoup almost. my delivery for monday arrived today(saturday). I did receive a “delivered” text message as the femailman was carrying the box to the porch.
Can you make pasta back into flour by running it through a mill or blender? Just asking.
@dbmittens oooh. Pasta bread!
Just in time! I sent one to a friend week one, and after the long delay she still never got it. Turned out I sent it to the wrong address and finally re-sent it yesterday. I love this pop-up idea.
Cool, my Penne Rigate order arrived moments ago with my $5 off pastadrop coupon inside… just in time to not be able to ever use it!
Edit: Read the above comment to say hold onto them… hooray, maybe WILL get to use it!
Noooooo!!! I had to wait till I got paid to send more but I never got the chance
meh… we got a few boxes, I guess it was worth it.
Here’s what it looked like sitting on our front porch.
@xenophod is that all one order?
@xenophod Which drop was this? Looks awesome!
POPSOCKETS! ROAD ROCKETS! SONNY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
@bmajazz All one order! My wife went to the door and said “Uh… What… The… Hell…” when she first saw it.
@tabbysandhuskys This was the Penne Rigate drop. My wife told me I had to make this: https://www.chelseasmessyapron.com/chicken-penne-pasta/ with some, and I did, and it was good.
When I went to the door, I thought it was only 3 boxes from the way they were stacked.
@xenophod and now we see just how much abuse these boxes can take before being crushed… what the hell is Pitney Bowes doing to our boxes?
OH LOOK! ANOTHER 100lbs OF PASTA!!!
Logistics update on Drop Six via separate thread for better visibility https://pastadrop.com/forum/topics/order-delays--drop-six-shipping
Reading back through, I’ve seen a lot of complaints from those who received 10-lb. shipments. But the only way to see the incredibly funny stories of someone being blitzed by 200 lb. shipments is for some people to get less than the value amount.
Let’s assume for a second that 20 lbs. for $20 is the price – including averaging packaging, shipping costs beyond VMP membership, web site development costs, customer support, carrying charges, etc. – at which Mediocre makes reasonable money on the ordeal (they’re not a charity).
If true (and it seems pretty reasonable on back of napkin), this means that for every 40 lb. box that goes out the door, 2 people must get 10 lbs. For every 100 lb. shipment that goes out the door, 8 people must get 10 lbs. For every 200 lb. shipment that goes out the door, 18 people must get 10 lbs.
Then we have to address the probability of getting larger shipments. So let’s just assume (no idea if this is anywhere near what they’re using) that the probability model is built such that for every 5 20 lb. boxes, there’s a 40 lb. shipment, and that for every 5 40 lb. shipments, there’s a 100 lb. shipment, and that for every 5 100 lb. shipments, there’s a 200 lb. shipment.
With that distribution, for each 200 lb. shipment you’d end up with 125 20-lb., 25 40-lb., 5 100-lb., and 1 200-lb. shipment. And 108 people would have to bear the 10 lb. burden so that others get more. These ratios can be adjusted, but in the end, there are a significant number of people who have to get 10 lb. shipments. Mediocre can’t just go to 20 lb. minimum, because then they don’t have anyone to balance the big shipments, and then they just go to straight sales of 20 lbs.
There was no guarantee that you’d get a super awesome value deal, it was $20 for a random amount of pasta. Looking back, I might have suggested that they enforce shipping to a different address than the billing address (to push the intended “send pasta to someone else”).
Was I disappointed to get 10 lbs. on my first 2 shipments? I would have preferred more. My tube-noodle shipments were out of whack with my string-noodle shipments, and I like tube-noodles more! But that was the price of playing, and 10 lbs. of pasta for $20 isn’t too far out of whack for a pasta lottery. Imagine if “random” meant they would ship you everything from a single-serving to a pallet-load?
The only other solution is to raise the minimum to 20 lbs., but then they’d be raising the price and we’d still see complaints that someone paid $30 for only 20 lbs., etc.
Bottom line - it’s a pasta lottery. Some people have to get 10 lbs. for others to get 100 lbs. Otherwise, it’s just a straight sale of pasta. I was a bit deflated after my first 2 shipments were 10 lbs. shipments, but it was fun nonetheless. I was excited when the ziti arrived @ 20 lbs., then 40 lbs. of linguine showed up. Before they nerfed the package weights on PB’s site, I saw that spaghetti appears to be 100 lbs. - it’s taking a vacation in Indiana right now. My sister got 40 lbs., my brother got 20 lbs., and my boss, my brother-in-law, and two of our friends still are outstanding, along with the 3 random pasta shipments I ordered. Some is going to food bank, some is going to a neighborhood bring-your-own-sauce pasta party (I think).
It was an awesome experiment!
Oh yeah… CLEAR! BEER! CHEER! AWESOME!
PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!
@chuegen “at which Mediocre makes reasonable money on the ordeal (they’re not a charity).”
I stumbled across an interview where it was stated by Mr. Meh Himself, that profit was not a goal of Pasta Drop.
Linky Linky
@yakkoTDI I saw that article, it doesn’t change anything even if break-even is the goal. You still have to cover all the same costs (packaging / shipping / IT / etc.), just removing a profit. And the core premise is still true - if <x> pounds is the break-even point for $20, then someone has to get less than <x> for others to get more than <x>. For people to get humorous amounts of pasta (10x), you’ll need a lot of people to get less than <x> to make up for it.
My friends still don’t suspect me. They’ve started referring to the mystery sender as “Straganonymous”. All this is to say that clearly pastadrop was my best quarantine impulse buy.
So far I’m 140lbs for 3 purchases with one still in transit… hope the last ones a doozy…
I placed my order on 6/18 and the order is still processing. Must be mixing up a GIANT batch to ship
@tldavie same
@tldavie same x3
Has anyone’s random drop been shipped? I’m getting antsy! I wanna know how much pasta my unsuspecting sister is getting!!!
@katzchen mine hasn’t. Supposedly this past Monday was when shipping was going to start. I don’t know if it’s shipped and we haven’t been notified (going through different carrier so might not be connected to website right)… Or if it just hasn’t shipped yet.
@katzchen @OnionSoup mine hasn’t shipped yet either. Still processing.
Two shipments for my random order just showed up in FedEx tracking. Plus 3 spaghetti shipments trickled in, no damage. Life is good! (assuming quality of life is proportional to the amount of pasta in one’s possession).
surprise! Jay Pow
Mine shipped! Shows as 1 pound and in a 6x4x1 box.
guess I’ll find out Friday.
@Vrysen mine too, but arrival on THURSDAY. Fed Ex should update weight/dims when/if it hits a major sort facility
@Vrysen …but is that in inches? Meters? Street blocks?
@fait Wish it were meters… sadly it is inches.
@Vrysen Interesting. I just got a FedEx update myself this morning. Also have a 6x4x1 (inches) box - but it also shows 1 lb., so I’d guess that maybe they’re using placeholder info?
That used to happen to me with SmartPost shipping info for pre-Amazon BOCs. I’d get a 10" square box with 1 lb. on the weight - then receive a box that was much larger and heavier.
I just got ten pickup notifications from FedEx.
If that is 200 pounds, as I expect, it means I paid $80 for 340 pounds of pasta. Which means my sister got 10 pounds, our letter carrier got 10 pounds, my wife and I got 40 pounds, and the local homeless shelter gets 280 pounds.
@SSteve look a the weight on the shipment. Mine says ONE freaking pound. If that’s what I get it’s a total rip off.
@arfdawg @SSteve Mine say that too. It’s most likely a placeholder weight until the boxes go through the sorting facility and get weighed.
I’m scared… I have 11 shipments. Holy moly mom’s gonna be pissed
@Unknownie From one buy? I just got my notification and it’s two boxes. Now I’m sad. Lol
@Mallowpuffs Only one box for me again.
@Mallowpuffs I’m actually not sure! I ordered shirts off of mediocritee and sidedeal, so some might be from those?
People getting all these shipments and once again, I get one. Seriously, pastadrop? Who wronged you as a child? And if over my two orders I end up with under 20# of pasta when all these xanax-white-wine housewife morningsave shoppers are getting hundreds of pounds, it might be time to realize this conglomerate isn’t for me.
I’ll cancel my VMP, become a member and buy shitty cosmetics if you actually send me a pasta drop, not a pasta drip.
I just wish that I had a tracking number. I have faith that they’ve been labeled and are on a truck waiting for FedEx to pick them up, but something to give me a warm an fuzzy feeling would be nice.
@Willijs3 VMP since '14? Congrats on getting your 10 pounds. Those coupons don’t pay for themselves. As for every member that happens to be from june (no loyalty) they are getting hundreds of pounds.
That isn’t by chance.
@KNmeh7 I can’t say I’ve had the same experience. However none of the drops I purchased were for me. I’ve sent each one to a different address. The first one was 2 shipments totalling 20# sent to a family member, the second was one shipment of 40# to a co-worker. This one is to a friend. I’m really hoping it’s a fair amount.
@Willijs3 Just got notification from PastaDrop that my order has shipped. FedEx shows that they have received the package. I show only one package, but based on my previous experience with the spaghettini, there might be other packages PastaDrop is not telling me about. And since I ship to a UPS store, I can’t set up a FedEx account to gain additional insight.
@KNmeh7, as far as seniority vs. amount, you can see I’ve been a VMP since the beginning. I got 40 pounds of the spaghettini, 20 pounds of the penne rigata, and unknown amount of this order. And some fun; I kept 10 pounds of each and donated the rest to Martha’s Kitchen.
@KNmeh7 @Willijs3 I dumped my VMP a while back due to my credit card being replaced and forgot to renew it so I’m just a lowly Member but I’ve been here since 2015 and got 10, 20 and 100lbs of pasta in the 3 drops I got
@KNmeh7 @Willijs3 Not so, it’s luck of the draw. My VMP linguine shipment was 200 pounds, and a “victim’s” spaghetti order was 100 pounds.
I got one, one pound box. I am sad.
@whiskeyish Don’t be sad, that one pound box is probably a FedEx placeholder weight. It should update to the real weight sometime in its travels. Sometimes you won’t find out the weight of your pasta until it is delivered.
Also while looking at the other PastaDrops, the least amount that has been sent out is ten pounds. While ten pounds is not a big amount, by any means, it is larger than one pound
@Barney @whiskeyish Wait…10 pounds is larger than 1 pound?
@Barney @whiskeyish Not to mention that 4x6x1 dimensions (what my box shows) is basically just a 1 lb. box of macaroni.
@Barney @chuegen same here. They’re trying to be sneaky on us, I think.
@chuegen @whiskeyish Once again, the dimensions of your box is just a placeholder.
I’ll be here waiting for your apologies after you get your pasta.
@Barney @whiskeyish Oh, I knew that - I was saying “if it were a 4x6x1 box, it’d be a lb of macaroni at best”
Anyone else still show as “Processing” still?
@Deuce0222 I placed 3 orders in drop 6 and 2 of them have shipped in the last 24 hours; 1 is still processing.
@margaretbbrown Good to know that hope to drown my victi…errr…friend! in random pasta is still alive.
@Deuce0222 @margaretbbrown My two orders are still processing.
@Deuce0222 i sent 2 orders out this last go round and they are both still processing as well. Has not moved since June 17th
Last to ship again.
Oh well, my victim isn’t expecting anything so it’s not like they’re tapping their toes waiting. August is as good as July.
@OnionSoup Mine hasn’t shipped either. I am hoping my friend gets an absolutely absurd amount of pasta.
Yay…finally shipped!
says it’s on the truck for delivery!
@Noddy93 One of my orders as well… however, 4 other orders are still in a holding pattern, they must be metering them so they don’t kill FedEx out of TX.
Mine arrived today. 33 pounds of pasta. 13 pounds of fettuccine, 10 pounds of ziti and 10 pounds of spaghetti. At least the fettuccine is in convenient 1 pound packets. The other two are going to a homeless shelter kitchen.
@ironcheftoni Hey, there’s a thought. I was just scratching my head and saying “How the hell am I going to use up a 10lb bag of spaghetti?”
10 lbs - Spaghetti
10 lbs - Penne
13 lbs - Fettuccini
ad this to the 10lbs of free Spagehttini and 40lbs of Penne received by a friend and it’s been okay for the $40 spent. nothing exciting except for the switch to FedEx making the 100-mile trip to my home one of the fastest rather than the regular slowest by the old shipping methods.
@Noddy93 Meanwhile my fedex shipment days ONE POUND
@arfdawg @Noddy93 mine said one lb as well and I received the same qty of pasta - 33 lbs
For one of the shipments, I received one box, 33 lbs. In it was 13 pounds of fettuccine, 10 pounds of ziti, and 10 pounds of linguine. As noted a couple comments above, the fettuccine was in 1-pound packets, the ziti and linguine were in the same 10-pound bags.
First time ever the FedEx truck backed into my driveway, LOL. 9 of my 10 boxes were delivered. 297 pounds of pasta - not bad for $20. Assuming the 10th box will also have the template 33lbs but I will see tomorrow. OMG, what if that 10th “box” is really a pallet?!
@cbilyak Holy smokes! We’re gonna need some photos of that haul!
@cbilyak This is the kind of absurdity I want my friend to get in his order. People around the office are still laughing at the 100 lbs of Ziti he received already.
Well, my wife was already growing weary of my obsession with “deal sites” but I think this is going to drive her over the edge.
@msayler My boss texted me to say “another box today, my wife has no idea what we’re going to do with this.”
@chuegen I left the pile conspicuously placed on the counter to wait for the reaction, then went back upstairs to the office. Just got a text: “omg pasta.”
Baked ziti. Lots and lots and lots and lots of baked ziti. Unending amounts of baked ziti.
/giphy unending baked ziti
10lbs Linguine
13lbs Fettuccine
10lbs Ziti
10 lbs Spaghetti
10 lbs Penne
13 lbs Fettuccini
Super excited about the Fettuccini!! I actually prefer the mash up of different pastas. Yea Meh!!
@tinamarie1974 Wow, that’s awesome! How many boxes did it come in?
PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!
@tabbysandhuskys all in one box
Pasta twins
So far one box delivered (they have not opened it, parents may be disowning me) that I did not get tracking notifications for and just got another.
My order finally shipped…and now I’m not jealous that it’s not coming to me!!
People are getting deliveries and mine haven’t even shipped yet!
/giphy can I speak to the manager
@awk same here, still have both of my orders in “Processing” It is taking all of my willpower not to spill the beans to my unwitting victims.
@awk @HexTheOwl Both of my orders are still processing, too. I sits, I waits.
@awk During the random drops, I placed 5 orders. One was delivered yesterday, another received its wheels last night and started on its way to the recipient in VA, and there are 3 more to shake loose yet.
Mine just shipped, and it is 1 box that is 1lb and the box is 6"x4"x1". I’m hoping there is more on its way, or my brother is going to think I’m crazier than he did before once he finds out it was $20.
@KCountry Those are placeholder values. Boxes that arrived yesterday still showed 1 lb, 6x4x1. They were actually 33 lbs, and were considerably bigger than 6x4x1.
@chuegen That’s good to know. I knew this was a gamble, it was just looking disappointing at the moment.
@chuegen @KCountry Glad to hear that I might still get in on the fun. My tracking information says the same as yours
@KCountry We won’t know if they use the same pattern until the next batches show up… but I’d say that disappointment is unlikely to be in the cards based on yesterday, where minimum has been ~33 lbs.
@chuegen Ok that’s great to hear. Glad it sounds like my brother will be getting in on the fun too.
How are you getting descriptions of your shipments? Mine only shows the location, and estimated delivery date (it’s close by, though!)
@Kyeh Using FedEx delivery manager… here’s an example (still yet to ship).
@chuegen Oh, is it an app?
@Kyeh No, it’s functionality on FedEx.com. Create an account and sign up for FedEx Delivery Manager (under “track”).
@Kyeh When you create an account, you have to prove that you live at that residence. If you shipped it to a friend/relative/enemy it won’t work. But it’s useful if you get a lot of stuff shipped to your own house.
@chuegen Okay, thanks. I just signed up. I thought I had, but I guess not!
@Willijs3 Thanks - I just signed up.
@chuegen Weird, mine still doesn’t show any “shipment facts” - it doesn’t even have that tab!
Oh, wait, never mind, I found it. It shows only 1 lb! I hope that’s not true…
@Kyeh That’s just a placeholder. The first couple of days, most people were getting 33 lbs. per box. Some received 1 box, some received 10.
@chuegen I did see that some people got only 10 lbs. though - that would be a little disappointing since some got such a ridiculously huge amount - I think it would be a blast to get a lot, and then share it around!
my last two orders–one to my dog–have shipped. both show the placeholder values of 6x4x1 and one pound…hopefully it’s a nice bunch of pasta. our first order of penne–for us–was only 10 pounds, but friends we sent to got 40 of linguine and 20 of spaghetti.
I still can’t believe my sister in law REFUSED her 100 pounds of spaghetti. grrr.
@pippakay
Geez, what a spoilsport - she could have donated it!
@Kyeh oh, yes. don’t start me. i’m still processing it. seriously, who would turn down free pasta?! no, wait, i know that one. grr.
The fedex guys carried two of my 1lb 6x4x1 boxes at a time. There were 10 of them.
They hate me.
@mikibell What was the actual weight of the boxes? I refuse to believe pastadrop is sending tiny bags of pasta.
@Unknownie I didn’t want to ruin anyone’s surprises…
We ended up with 135 lbs of fettuccine, 100 lbs of linguine, 100 lbs of penne!! I woulda taken pictures, but it was raining.
The homeless shelter is getting at least 150lbs of pasta. Thank you all!
@Unknownie P.S. the fedex guys were very pleasant!!!
@mikibell @Unknownie omg, that’s amazing. congrats!
@mikibell Wow that’s an amazing haul! Haha I bet FedEx is cringing at these huge deliveries. Fingers crossed for some penne!
Friend reported surprise delivery of 80 lbs of pasta today. So much joy!
Much better experience this time! 2 big boxes, looks like 2x10 lbs bags just labeled “pasta” (spaghetti, right?), 26x1 lbs packs of fettucini, and 2x10 lbs bags of penne. More importantly, only about 3 weeks to process and deliver instead of a month and a half. If the couple of orders I gifted are similar, I’d definitely do it again.
@martinam Roma used generic packaging except for the black text located to the side which will tell you cook time and type of pasta.
I have the perfect amount of spaghetti and way-way too much ziti from earlier orders so I sent random pasta to a friend instead of to myself…but it’s just so exciting to watch and wait.
@megania
hope they don’t react like the one person I know and get terribly angry
@Cerridwyn @megania How could anybody get angry at pasta?!
@megania @MrMikenIkes
200 lbs delivered over 5 different days over 2 weeks just overwhelmed him, it wasn’t funny anymore as he had to trek to the mail room and get them each time
@Cerridwyn @MrMikenIkes oh, wow! That’s too bad. I had two delivery days with the ziti…but I’m the one who ordered it, so it was a surprise and it wasn’t. I had so much fun, I kind of wish I had sent some random to myself…but I have so much pasta already that I’m just living vicariously through my unsuspecting friend.
Just received my order! 10 pound bag of penne, 10 pound bag of spaghetti, 13 one pound bags of fettuccine. 33 pounds total. Not bad!
@lkblaser i got the same
@lkblaser @marjoryk this was us too!
How is this random pasta if everyone is getting the same thing. Lol.
Mine does not show as delivered
But 3 shipping boxes. we lost count laughing and giggling at work. So at least
3 -10 lb bags of Penne, I think there were 4
2 -10 lb bags of spaghetti
1 -10 lb bag of linguini
totally lost count on the number of 1lb bags of fettuccine
I brought home the linguine and a couple or 3 bags of fettuccine.
Win win, people at office are planning their pasta dinners and handed over a couple of bags of fettuccine to some random people who came in the door.
@Cerridwyn
well, the reason it didn’t show delivered is apparently 7 more boxes came yesterday. Someone must have been there to let the guy deliver. I got a picture from the person who came in this morning to get something.
more pasta opening fun tomorrow.
gotta take your fun these days where you can.
I hope I hit the fettuccine jackpot lol. I was waiting for that one to be announced before the notice that the pastadrop end was here
. Then I got excited seeing the first deliveries getting some fettuccine! My luck I’ll get only spaghetti or something in my order 
.
Ugh. My package has been on a FedEx truck for two days now. Out for delivery they say. End of day they say. Most irritating thing ever.
Anyone else with this issue??
Tracking updated - 35lbs of noods headed my way
Sounds like some good variety from reports, looking forward to it!
33 lbs total! 10 spaghetti, 10 unbent elbow(?) 13 fettuccine.❤️❤️❤️
@goddesscatering take that picture down. Your address is in it. @riotdemon
@goddesscatering
wow, that’s something new the elbow
cool
@Cerridwyn @goddesscatering That’s Ziti!
@Cerridwyn @eric1024 Its smooth…like kraft mac n cheese
@RiotDemon @willdavi Apparently someone blurred it out for me! Lol.
@Cerridwyn @goddesscatering Yep, that’s Ziti - I think some ziti has ridges and some are smooth:
@Cerridwyn @eric1024 thanks!
I sent my order to a local breadline. Per the tracking, it turned out to be exactly 1 pound of pasta. If that’s not the ultimate IRK of pasta, I dont know what is
@togle That’s a placeholder value and very likely not the actual amount. I got one tracking number which indicated one box and 1 pound, but I got two big boxes and a total of 66 pounds!
@eric1024 In further reading through the comments here, it looks like I may not be seeing the actual shipment weight/quantity because I shipped it to an address other than my own? I was really looking forward to seeing how much (pounds, I know I won’t know exactly what types) pasta they received
@togle I didn’t get the actual weight/quantity and I did ship it to my own address. Others have said that eventually the stats are updated to the correct numbers, but mine haven’t even after delivery, so not sure if that happens every time.
@eric1024 Yes, mine has been delivered, but still shows one pound and the 6x4 box. Guess I may never know
@eric1024 @togle Are you afraid to ask?
@eric1024 @sammydog01 It feels kind of gauche to contact them and be like, “I sent you a donation! I did, I really did! Didja like it! Was it wonderful! I bet it was wonderful, right??? So, uh, what was it?”
@sammydog01 But also yes, Im afraid to ask and it have really been one pound. A box containing one pound of pasta with which I included the note, something like, “Anonymous donation. Enjoy!”
@eric1024 @togle Good point. I thought it was someone you knew.
@eric1024 @sammydog01 @togle
You should ask! Let them in on the fun of it. My mail carrier loved the story behind the heavy box of pasta she had to haul around.
a 10 lb bag of spaghetti, and 13 1 lb bags of fettuccine, and a 10 lb bag of penne tucked in there too.
Got the notification that my package (which I sent to my wife with a Happy Birthday message) had been delivered by Fedex to my front door. Weird, I didn’t see anybody walk up to my porch. Went out and looked and there was nothing there, though I did see on my Nest cam that a Fedex truck pulled up in front of a neighbor’s house around the time it said it was delivered. Texted the neighbor to see if she had received my package. In the meantime, I called Fedex to ask about it and they told me that they weren’t delivering it to my house, but to a local USPS facility for them to make the final delivery. They said that I should rest assured that the package was now in the hands of USPS, they guaranteed it. Well, shortly afterwards my neighbor responded and said that there were two large packages on their porch that “said something about ‘Hope you like pasta!’, and that we were lucky she liked us because she in fact did like pasta a lot!” (I will be sharing some with her for sure!). Retrieved the 2 large boxes from her porch.
Each large box had 2 smaller boxes inside.
Each large box contained:
1 x 10lb bag of Linguine
1 x 10lb bag of Penne
13 x 1lb bags of Fettuccine
So, I received a total of 66 lbs:
20 lbs Linguine
20 lbs Penne
26 lbs Fettuccine
My wife was not amused that I ordered MORE pasta on top of the previous 20lb shipment of Linguine!
Thanks Pastadrop!
The one I sent to a friend is due to be delivered on Monday, so we’ll see if he gets the same!
10 pounds of spaghetti
10 pounds of fettuccine
10 pounds of penne
I also bought the spaghetti and penne drops so the only new item was the fettuccine but that is the one my wife was hoping for so that is good. Thanks for the fun Pasta Drop. I figure the Roma company which services restaurants found they where sitting on tons of pasta with no restaurants to sale to when the Covid hit the fan so great idea grabbing some for us at a great price and while I am sad to see Pasta Drop go I am glad to see restaurants opening up again. Wish there was some way you could have gotten a hold of some of tons of milk they were dumping out that made my heart hurt to see that on the nightly news. Of course with how long Pitney Bowes takes the milk would have been so bad it would have turned to cheese at that point? Yeah, so thanks for sending this drop with Fedex and not that cluster fuck of a company you have been using lately.
Got my random drop today. 2 10# bags each of spaghetti and linguini. Planning to take it to the local foodbank. Husband says no, we may need it, so I’ll have to sneak it out.
Came in today!! 66 pounds in total. 20 spaghetti, 20 penne, and 26 fettuccine. Suffice to say, many a pasta meal we will have
Thanks PastaDrop!
It has arrived! 15 one-pound packages of fettuccine, a 10 lb bag of linguini, and a 10 lb bag of ziti! Already scarfing down a big bowl of creamy shrimp fettuccine right now!
Sent one to my friend, her husband posted it on facebook and lots of laughs were had. 3 10lb bags of spaghetti, a bunch of fettuccini. Very pleased … even if I never got my order from round 2.
Delivered! 33 pounds of pasta, and the FedEx guy took the Pasta Drop part very seriously, here’s the video:
@evantribley I love this!
my daughter just got a surprise today!
she finally figured it out after calling a bunch of friends
@bullrocky Love the pupper peeking out the corner!
2 final orders arrived today. Each was identical - 10 lbs. linguine, 30 lbs. spaghetti in 2 boxes for each. Looks like @bullrocky 's daughter ended up with the rest of the fettuccine that was appearing in the boxes earlier.
So, in 8 orders, 293 lbs. of pasta:
10 lbs. spaghettini
10 lbs. penne
40 lbs. linguine
20 lbs. ziti
100 lbs. spaghetti
13 lbs. fettuccine, 10 lbs. ziti, 10 lbs. linguine
30 lbs. spaghetti, 10 lbs. linguine
30 lbs. spaghetti, 10 lbs. linguine
Success! 100# of pasta dropped on my friends front porch while they were gone for the weekend.
I didn’t know FedEx delivered on Sundays? Apparently my order that was supposed to arrive Tuesday, then Monday, decided, why wait, and delivered today.
Anyway.
2 ten pound bags of spaghetti
2 ten pound bags of linguine
29 one pound bags of fettuccine
69 pounds added to the 100 pounds of linguine I got previously.
I’m surprised I didn’t get any tubulars. Was looking forward to some variety. That’s ok cuz the one pound bags will be easier to give away. I’m tempted to just put them in random lockers at work.
The linguine will go to a food pantry or soup kitchen. I barely took a dent out of one of the ten pounders I got weeks ago.
I hit the motherload!The motherload hit me! I was out of town for the weekend and returned to a whopping ~250-300# of pasta at my doorstep. My house-watching in-laws were afraid someone hacked our Amazon account. Quick to discover the culprit once I figured out the meh relationship. Nine larger boxes of two sub-boxes, each of the 18 sub-boxes containing 13-20# of pasta. The pastabilities are endless![Penne for your thoughts]
@themarksmann Holy Macaroni!
@themarksmann Final count 270#; 30# ziti, 60# penne, 80# fettuccine, 100# spaghetti
@themarksmann Total to 294#. Another box arrived today containing +4# fettuccine, +10# ziti, and +10# linguine.
@themarksmann
Sounds like some good D&D rolls.
There is a package on it’s way to my mother. In the detailed info on FedEx, it says one package. Does anyone know if multiple packages arrive that say only one will arrive?
Curious…am hoping she gets inundated but she would be so mad! haha…one package would be fine too though.
@Dakini I got one tracking number and it also only said one package. I ended up with two large boxes (2 small boxes in each), for a total of 66 lbs.
@eric1024 Thank you!
@Dakini Track by reference on fedex site will tell you how many packages were sent with your order. The tracking info showed one on my order as well but tracking shows 2
@turk911 Thanks. I just tried that and it comes up with nothing.
I don’t have a fed ex account so maybe that is why. Oh well, I only have to wait til Thursday
@turk911 Thank you for this. I didn’t know it was a thing.
@Dakini @turk911 You are a genius, thank you for sharing this hack. For those who can’t get it to work, there is a separate search by order reference number, you can’t just paste your confirmation number in the usual tracking form.
@turk911 I just tried again, not sure why but it still says it cannot find it. hmmm no biggie
@Dakini @turk911 This is awesome - thanks! I had no idea this was possible. Checked the order I sent to my friend (which was supposed to be delivered today, but now presumably tomorrow) and there are 5 packages!
FOOLS! TOOLS! JEWELS! AWESOME!
So I’m not sure if I should be relieved or disappointed that I only received 1 box containing 33 lbs of pasta. 10 lbs Penne and 23 lbs of Fettuccine. Seriously relieved I’m not the person who received 10 boxes - lol
My friends got 40 pounds!!!
Ok - all shipments delivered to friends & family. What fun!
Total for 14 orders: 645 lbs.
10 lbs. spaghettini
10 lbs. penne
130 lbs. linguine
130 lbs. ziti
340 lbs. spaghetti
25 lbs. fettuccine
32 1/4 lbs per order, 43.4 cents per pound
Laughing friends & family
Well-stocked food bank
/giphy successful fun
Shipment arrived today! 5 boxes. I’ve only opened 3 so far but I think all are the same. 100 lbs of spaghetti! I’m making some carbonara!
I ordered a drop sent to my workplace since hours are short and money is tight for a lot of us. 5 boxes showed up today. Our FedEx guy wasn’t happy! We only opened the top two, both were 10# spaghetti and 13# fettuccine each. Tomorrow we’ll open the other 3, let my coworkers take what they want, and the rest will go to a local food bank. If all the boxes are the same that’s 115 pounds of pasta in one order.
I also ordered a drop to my house which is 23# of fettuccine and 10# of penne.
My sister in law got hers today. 40 pounds of spaghetti. Seems like some people have gotten a lot more and at least a variety. Was honestly hoping they’d have at least gotten a variety. And of course more but oh well, not horrible I guess.
Apparently FedEx decided to deliver my sister’s pasta over two days; when three more boxes showed up today she was begging me to stop sending pasta
.
Big thud at the front door today. Fedex dropped off 20lb of spaghetti and 20lb of linguine. No tubes or fettucini booster packs. Outer boxes were crushed (one looked like it had burst open and was retaped). Everything fine inside. Thanks for dropping some pasta, PastaDrop!
Pastadrop victims got their drops yesterday… buddy got 40 pounds and my sister got 100 pounds. Both were gobsmacked, so mission success. Thanks pastadrop, this was fun!! When are we gonna do saucedrop?
13x1lb fettucine, 10lb penne, 10lb what I assume is linguine (bag just says “pasta”) and it was all in good shape too. I was really hoping for some penne since I missed out on that drop. Got the variety I was hoping for and a quantity I can certainly live with, which erases any lingering grumpiness about the previous 10lb drop.
@blandoon The pasta type is actually printed on the side of the bag for whatever reason. But it should be there somewhere.
My VMP Pastadrop of excitement was delivered yesterday. Inside the one large box were two smaller boxes, one containing a 10lb bag of penne rigate & six 1lb packs of linguine, and the other one containing a 10lb bag of spaghetti & seven 1lb packs of linguine. Total was 33lbs of Roma 100% durum semolina pasta.
I cooked up half a pound of linguine last night for dinner, and it seemed just fine for human consumption. Guess there will be more pasta dinners in my future.
13x1lb fettucine, 10lb penne, 10lb linguine
Most of my random drops have been delivered to my unsuspecting family across the us:
-cousin got 100lbs of spaghetti
but she was very happy about all the pasta)
-Mum got 50lbs of assorted fettuccine, linguini and spaghetti
-Aunt got 40lbs
-grandma got 50lbs as well (She couldn’t lift the 2 big boxes without opening them and making multiple trips
4 pasta drops for a total of 240lbs of random pasta!!
Hurray!!! My daughter & granddog just got 100 pounds of pasta. This was so much fun… thanks Meh!!
Looks like all of mine have been delivered now (I think? One still shows “Shipped” but it was smartpost and USPS dropped off already… so we’ll see!) and all of my victims have gotten their goods. Overall I got about 314lbs of pasta, across 5 orders, with the bulk being linguine (or spaghetti, can’t tell the difference and they just say “Pasta” on the package) and fettuccini.
I’ve gotta say, I was pleasantly surprised. Good job Meh team, can’t wait for the next experiment!
PastaDrop success! My sister just received her multiple boxes with 100# of spaghetti and a whole box of the fettuccine booster packs. She thanked me for pasta’ing her into oblivion.
My front desk now thinks we’re crazy. 100# of pasta showed up here. All straight pastas (spaghetti/spaghettini/linguine, didn’t feel like disambiguating). Added to the linguine I’d ordered first, 120# of pasta for $20 total cause magic. Yes bot, it’s the a word.
My sister’s random drop came out to 56#, a nice middle of the road amount with good variety. 26 fettuccine x 1#, 1 ziti 20#, 1 spaghetti 10#.
Now if only my spaghetti order from the week before would arrive. It’s yet to be disgorged from the bowels of the PB monster.
Wowza! Mother load ! 25 1lb bags of fettuccine,
2 10lbs linguine, 2 10lbs bags of ziti. What a riot! 65lbs of pasta. So glad to have gotten the 1lb bags. I’m giving them to people wherever I go.
I did a self-drop, and got a total of 33lbs of pasta:
Too bad the big bags will be harder to give away to multiple folk.
I haven’t heard from the local food pantry yet for a status on their haul, but the individual I also dropped to got 52 pounds made up of:
With 5 kids in that house, I know it will be put to its intended use.
10# penne
12# fettuccine
30# spaghetti
Pasta a plenty!
I did a self-drop, and got 40lbs, which is nice. But it fooled me … there were 4 of the non-huge boxes. I let them sit in quarantine for a while and finally opened them up today. Each one had one package of pasta and the rest (more than half) of the space filled with sealed air packing. There were two linguini and two (I think) spaghetti. It’s odd that it was shipped this way. So: not a ton of variety, and a lot of empty space and illusory packing, but still 40 lbs mostly to give away. Maybe entirely… this was my third drop (but my first to myself) – I was given 10 lbs out of one of the others, both of which were 20 lbs each.
Sister got 40 lbs of spaghetti and thought it was from a creepy realtor until I asked what she was having for dinner. B-I-L got a total of 40# (mixed spaghetti, fettuccine, and thin spaghetti but he knew it was us immediately. Our friends got 100# of the same type.
Not sure what and I don’t want to press too much because they don’t seem super thrilled by it and don’t know it was us.
A coworker of mine is hoping for another run so she can drop some pasta on her brother.
This was fun!
BIL in the Navy just got 100# of spaghettini. The least versatile shape possible. Grazie, PastaDrop! This was spectacular.
So bummed this is over- so much fun!
Did 2 drops- one was a friend who got 100# of the spaghetti drop, the other my 2 year old grandson who got 80# of fettuccine for the last random drop.
Bravo, pastadrop!
I think a Fed-ex driver stole the pasta drop to my friend in Baltimore. The left a door tag stating they would try to deliver the following day, then tracking says just a few minutes later it was delivered.
Talked to Fed-ex rep on phone and even they said it was suspicious. I just sent an email to support, i’m hoping they might have some leftovers they could send again laying around cause I’d much rather her get some pasta then a refund.
@snapster any chance of leftovers laying around?
My random shipment was ten boxes:
That’s in addition to my four regular orders:
Grand total: 569(!) pounds:
I’d say it was a good haul. Thanks for the carb-filled laughs, PastaDrop crew!
@SSteve Wow, looks like their random number generator treated you well! 5 orders, averaging more than 100 lbs. each… impressive!
Son got 60#, mostly linguini. He and girlfriend spent about a month interrogating suspects. Hard to believe he never suspected me.
Says the cats loved the various-sized boxes, and the local food bank was quite happy as well.
$20 well-spent. Thanks!