I may be in the minority, but I’m looking at this similar to how I look at a scratch-off lottery ticket… or a BOC. The original goal of this temporary pasta delivery website was to help out both commercial pasta manufacturers / suppliers who had no one to sell to during the pandemic and also to keep Mediocre employees busy with shipments. Not sure anyone is making a ton of money on this (the article I read on it said that it was at best a break-even venture), and is an interesting way to get a lot of bulk pasta to food banks and soup kitchens.
I managed to score 100 pounds of pasta in this. Yay for me, but I only kept 10 pounds of it, and 90 pounds went to the local food bank, who were immensely thankful for the bounty.
Would I have been less happy if I had received 10 pounds instead of 100? Sure, but mostly because it would have been less pasta that I could donate to families in need.
I just think people need to keep this in perspective… if you had an extra $20 laying around to spend on a mystery amount of pasta, consider yourself lucky. Only getting 10 pounds of commercial grade pasta is literally the definition of a first world problem.
So I ordered for a friend, and boy were we surprised… 5 boxes 100lbs of pasta… She said the poor postal lady gave her some strange looks for sure…
Thanks @snapster and all this has been great fun.
This service is to ship your friend an unknown amount of Pasta.
This service is not to ship your friend an amount of pasta worth more than you paid. If you use it with that in mind, you’re not enjoying the experience at all.
@snapster@Telanis I was legitimately wondering once I got my penne shipments…100# and I paid $20. That couldn’t have possibly even covered the shipping, let alone printing custom boxes, warehouse staff, not to mention your initial purchase price (presumably next to nothing if you’re blasting out this many noods in one order).
Well, thanks for the presumably money-losing but VMP-reinforcing stunt!
I got a very excited FaceTime call from my niece who was SO FREAKING THRILLED TO HAVE A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF PASTA OMG AMAZING DROPPED TO HER MOM’S HOUSE!!!
The whole family were all a bit incredulous (and the kids in particular were especially delighted) to have received 80lbs of Italy-made penne rigate…
Good show, PastaDrop! Good show!
Boxes!
What is in the boxes?
Oooh! Pasta!
Incredulous niece!
…a while later I got a note from my sister that the pasta is really good but when I asked for a photo of the cooked goods, she replied: “Umm… they ate it all!”
Now, I only wish I could have also dropped some pasta here, eh?.. Hey @snapster and/or @dave, when are you guys coming up to visit Toronto (or better yet, set up an auxiliary warehouse here!? )
This time, sis managed to snap a photo before the entire batch was eaten! “They were eating it so fast I just remembered the picture in time!”
Hot noods:
Confirmed that the pasta is still really good! Bag #1 is already done (apparently it fed the neighbours too)!!
My first PastaDrop was a great success. 90 lbs of penne generating delightful responses, including:
“Our neighbors were watching in horror and amazement.”
&
“The mailman was shaking his head in disbelief as he drove away!”
The generous recipient is sharing the love with a handful of friends. And she has no doubts that her pasta-loving family will happily consume the bags that remain. I’m thrilled with the delivery and the reception.
I checked my tracking number with USPS tracking yesterday and noticed there were 5 (!) tracking numbers coming simultaneously from Meh, and sure enough, today I found them dumped over the gate - look like the mail guy took the Pasta “Drop” seriously!
The post office employee said I am on a postal inspector’s watch list. They don’t believe a single person would order this much pasta and they wanted to know what was really in these boxes…Thanks Pasta Drop!
@Brasssong If posting from your phone make sure to be in landscape mode before hitting the reply button, then press the button with the moon and mountains.
I need gluten-free pasta but this purchase will allow Mrs. cengland0 to have pasta too while also leaving my special gluten-free pasta alone. Means more for me in the long run.
@cinoclav you use the term “pasta chef” loosely. I don’t call the person boiling water a chef. I just need to make sure she doesn’t share utensils while cooking both versions.
To my eldest son who foresaw the crisis and started stockpiling supplies in January. His siblings gave him a hard time until about mid-March. Now he can make chicken riggies. (That’s probably an Upstate NY thing.)
Sent my first order to my local food bank. I hope you guys are not sending over three packets of pasta: that would be embarrassing for both me and you!
Thanks for the coupons
I’d like to say how dumb this concept is but I’ve sent two orders and neither of them were to myself, so who’s the real dummy here? It’s me, buying unknown quantities of pasta.
My sister has been making hand sanitizer, hundreds of face masks, and legit professional-level bread and baked goods for her neighbors who still can’t get bread regularly (she lives in a rural area and their grocery stores are still a little dire), and she refuses to accept money for any of this. The least I can do is give her a completely unknown (but hopefully ridiculously large) amount of pasta for her to shovel at her teenagers as a thank you for her work.
Apologies if already suggested, but it would be fun to drop a random or targeted Meh user; just would have to figure out how to keep their shipping address private and not become sender’s default address.
@lehigh agree. this was one of our first internal feature desires but alas was not able to be built for quick launch and short duration of this pop-up. hoping for another similar application.
I received word that my penne was inducted into the Newgistics Hall of Fame; err, no, the Pitney Bowes system of doom. 2 days in TX, 6 day tour of Greenwood IN, and then off to me after 4 more days or so of rattling around USPS in STL area.
I sent some friends this pasta drop and one called me today yelling “STOP SENDING ME PASTA” because boxes just keep up. Had to explain I have no control over the amount. 100 lbs so far
kinda meh, but it’s like a lottery ticket, right? it’s been fun reading about people who won the pasta lottery, and the coupon codes make up for some of my instant regret.
hopefully the linguine i sent to friends will be a more impressive amount.
I now own a comical amount or penne. Received 20lbs on Wednesday and thought that was quite a bit. Then another 60lbs arrived on Thursday. Wow that’s a lot of pasta. Then another 20lbs arrived on Friday. wtf. I wish I had done this to someone else.
@Rstoker The “random amount” that is mentioned in the FAQ. If you assume that Meh gets a good cut at the $1/lb. price (which is what you usually see in the grocery stores), then for every person getting 100 lbs. (the “crazy load”), 8 people have to get the 10 lb. “loser load”. For every person getting 40 lbs. (the “enhanced load”), 2 people have to get the 10 lb. “loser load”.
I have twice gotten the “loser load” (spaghettini and penne); once gotten the “normal load” (ziti); and once the “enhanced load” (linguini). So technically, up to this point, I’m pretty much a break-even customer for them with my “loser loads” covered by my linguini.
The fun will come with the spaghetti as I did a bunch of family members in addition to the donation. For the local donations, I’ve found it easier just to ship to me, cover up the shipping label, and drop the box on local porches of my, erm, victims.
So, my letter carrier gave me a card for “You have six packages at the post office. I couldn’t fit them in the truck.” So I drive up to the post office…to get 120 lbs of penne rigate.
Pitney Bowes totally sucks. My pasta was in Los Angeles (where I live) for almost 2 weeks and now I see it just got sent to a facility 50 miles further away. Oh pasta where or where are you?
My pasta finally arrived. 10#, which is $2 per pound. Kind of expensive. And had a coupon for $5 off on my next order, which of course is moot.
On the other hand, I did use the $10 coupons for the other sites, and all of them have been delivered from the clutches of Pitney Bowes. So I’m cool with spendy pasta.
@snapster Just curious when do the coupons get sent out? I ordered one last week (and again this week) and haven’t seen anything yet. Is it when it ships out?
@mongoose7000 upon using PastaDrop the first time, the code pastadrop works for $10 off on other sites from the account used. An email is generated about an hour after your first purchase but this detail here is all you need.
sent noods to myself. what the hell did I just do?
and why?
lockdown is getting to me, I think.
at least I’ll have noods to keep me company…
and mister pippakay, if he’s still talking to me when he realizes I’ve been sending noods TO MYSELF through the mail.
@Vrysen if you get more than 20 lbs. it comes in multiple boxes. The e-mail from PastaDrop only includes 1 tracking number. However, if you use (Un)Informed Delivery from the USPS, it’ll show you if you have more on the way from MEDIOCRE COMPANY. So I go to Informed Delivery, look for the tracking numbers from PastaDrop, then plug them into the Pitney Bowes site to see the total.
@chuegen thanks, but honestly, I’m just happy they got pasta and a lot. Now I get to get a box of penne since the spaghettini is never gonna ship to me. And if does it will be broken and open and meh.
PASTA HAS DROPPED!
Got the shipment just today. Six big Boxes, each with two smaller boxes, each with a 10-pound bag of pasta. All told, 120 glorious pounds of penne rigate.
For anyone whose shipment seems to be stuck at a Pitney Bowes facility, try entering the tracking number on the USPS site. Pitney Bowes has shown my package as sitting in Greenwood, IN for over a week now. USPS shows that it arrived at a USPS facility in Oxford, MS yesterday afternoon.
So my buddy got his first box on Monday. Then got 2 more boxes yesterday. Then got 2 more today. 80 lbs so far! I hope they keep coming because I can’t stop laughing. So much fun!
Got 60lb yesterday. Mail lady asked “Is this really pasta?”
Another 40lb showed up today! Girlfriend will be using a bit of it to make some pasta salad for my birthday party.
Similar story - 20 lbs of penne arrived at my sister’s house last week, this morning she sent me an email: “oh. em. gee. Please make it stop! Got another 20 lbs in today’s mail!!” LOLOLOL!!! I kind of hope that’s it for her, she does have a kind of sensitive psyche! Can’t wait to hear the linguine story from my niece, when they get that!! This has been great fun, Mercatalyst folks, thanks!!!
Umm, did anyone else’s shipping say things like container load, trailer depart, and trailer arrive? I’m officially terrified now and have no one to blame but myself… So. Much. Fun! Though.
@kevinrs me too but i just got a pic from my sis of 6 boxes of penne. She got 1 last week and was appreciative but it was lacking in the humor department. I sent her hubs and kiddo each a random drop 2 days ago. Now 6 more boxes of penne show up and the ziti isnt even there yet… oops. She says im dead to her now. Lol I cant wait till my niece, whos shipping now says delivery exception, and is 8, gets her princess noodles. I have laughed so hard in the last 3 hours it hurts.
My sister lives in the woods (and I mean far into the woods) in northern California. This got dropped of at her neighbor’s, she had to borrow a golf cart to get it home, and she had no idea I sent it. This went better than I could have hoped
Well, today has been our 4th consecutive day of pasta deliveries and we’re up to 160 pounds of penne. Although I feel mildly bad for the mail carrier, I think a 10# gift of penne for her this week will make me feel less so.
@ruthersby Real talk with me - how can you offer pasta to a hard-working mail carrier without coming off as creepy? I totes owe my carriers some pasta love.
@melonscoop So, we made a point to meet our mail carrier when we moved into the neighborhood and are on a first name basis with her. It certainly helps ensure really smooth service and she’s great! We get a lot of mail/packages so keeping her happy is always a priority. She happily took it with a smile and laugh.
I’ve been out of town a lot and saw that my penne was delivered last week. I asked my neighbor if she could please move the box from the porch into my house so as to not broadcast my absence.
Poor Kayla! She moved 160lbs of noodles! At least I know how I can express my gratitude for her help. With pasta, of course.
@moonhat haha holy shit never even put the two together! I never know what giphy is going to drop with these order names! Haha order being shipped to MA bot to Alabama or Florida
/giphy hell no
@adambclay which reminds me. Baguette is a word with many meanings in France.
It can mean skinny loaf of bread, as it does here, but it can also be used as a euphemism for penis, chopsticks are called baguettes, legs are sometimes called baguettes, a policeman’s truncheon is a baguette… And a magicians wand is a baguette.
That’s right… In Harry Potter books in France the wizards pointed their baguettes at each other to cast spells. (Lord Voldemort’s middle name was “Elvis” in the French Harry Potter to make the anagram work in French).
@mike808 I’m beginning to think they aren’t sending tracking for the penne, or it’s going to be shipped late. Delivery was estimated June 1-8, and the way shipping is now, if it hasn’t shipped yet, more likely to be second half of June
lol wooo, 20lbs being shipped to co worker. I hope they’re excitedly disappointed. Haven’t said anything yet so should be interesting. Also hoping they don’t drop any off at my house when they realize that 20lbs is a lot of F-ing pasta.
/giphy hospitable-lone-spy
@irenegade@Outer78 That’s not true. Everyone gets a different amount, based on the drop one reports it looks like the range is 10-100 pounds per order.
@irenegade Pitney bowes tracking states 22lbs 8oz. So they are getting 22lbs of something lol This is 1 order and as stated, it’s a random amount that everyone is getting, it seems.
@OnionSoup correct, multiple boxes need multiple tracking numbers and pastadrop is only providing us with 1. So unless you have informed delivery from USPS, you won’t know how many packages are actually going to show up.
@tinamarie1974 ahhh good… Started sending some out huh. Probably everyone will have shipping orders within three or four days… So… three weeks in shipping plus less than a week before order ships … I should definitely have the Penne by July 4th. What could be more American than Italian food?
@OnionSoup nothing! In my household (and my parents) we have Italian food at every holiday, and the bonus of Italian cookies at Christmas! It would be weird if we didn’t
@RiotDemon I don’t see any locator pin on my phone and it doesn’t appear even in “desktop mode”.
The tracking number links me to the usps website and there is no weight info.
Why or how would I know to go to the Prodigious Bowels movement site?
@mike808@RiotDemon oooh… Mine has a tracking number now. No weight yet though. Definitely should arrive before end of June though I suspect.
Mike, the pin is easy to miss, I see it on my phone on pb’s website. It looks like a “location icon” on an Android phone.
Weight doesn’t show up immediately though… Mine is currently weightless.
Only one tracking number so not a megadrop. I suspect they only did those 100lb drops for the first week to get some buzz. I imagine most of us will be in the 10-40lb range from here on out.
@RiotDemon I tried with the tracking number pasting into the PB link. Unfortunately, that’s not where the tracking link takes you from the website details (it goes to the USPS site).
Not a big deal, but it is still tribal lore passed around by mehmbers, not a user error. Might want to keep that link handy for the other drop topics.
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@mike808@RiotDemon one thing to take into account is that the weight on PB website isn’t accurate.
It told me 20lbs but I got two boxes each 20lbs.
I think the weight on the PB website only tells you the weight of one box. So if it says 20lbs all you can infer from that is that one box in your order is 20lbs. You don’t know if you only got one box, or more.
You have a valid point, but since I have seen nothing besides the exact same box that appears to perfectly fit 20#, if you have anything less than 20#, it is pretty safe to say you are only getting that.
Also, more of a beat-the-dead-horse insult, if they only have one size box, it is no wonder everyone with less than 20# seems to be reporting broken and opened bags. Texas air doesn’t help a fragile 10# weight being beat the hell out of.
@mike808@OnionSoup@RiotDemon This is correct, if you get more than 20 lbs. it comes in multiple boxes. The e-mail from PastaDrop only includes 1 tracking number. However, if you use (Un)Informed Delivery from the USPS, it’ll show you if you have more on the way from MEDIOCRE COMPANY. So I go to Informed Delivery, look for the tracking numbers from PastaDrop, then plug them into the Pitney Bowes site to see the total.
@Ebis if you get more than 20 lbs. it comes in multiple boxes. The e-mail from PastaDrop only includes 1 tracking number. However, if you use (Un)Informed Delivery from the USPS, it’ll show you if you have more on the way from MEDIOCRE COMPANY. So I go to Informed Delivery, look for the tracking numbers from PastaDrop, then plug them into the Pitney Bowes site to see the total.
20 lbs noods just got delivered to my husband, but the box looked like it was attacked by velociraptors and the packing slip was half missing, including my note to him. Kinda ruined the fun.
Well my son received 40 lbs of pasta yesterday. He thinks I’m nuts for doing this.
All in all, fifty cents a lb. for pasta is a good deal. For the people upset by only receiving 10 lbs… what did you expect? You were warned. The amount is random.
II’d have been ok with 10 lbs. I did it for the fun of it. And for the $10 off coupon codes for the other sites. I’ve used 2 of them so far.
Heck, I’m not sure what my son is going to do with 40 lbs. of pasta.
@Trinityscrew I think part of the problem is many of the 10 lb packages of pasta (like mine) came smashed or split open, rendering them virtually useless. So yeah, did I expect to get 40, 50, 100 lbs of pasta? No. Did I expect to get something usable and worth the $20+ shipping I spent to have it sent? Absolutely. Of course the coupons for the other sites were what ultimately got me to push the buy button, but all in all, I would consider this to be a poorly executed fun idea.
@drewcroa Contact them. If your pasta was all smashed/broken/useless then send them some pictures. Or post them here. They may refund your money or give you coupons for future purchases.
@Trinityscrew my wife opened il the box and promptly dumped into another container. She doesn’t do much internet shopping and didn’t think twice about it.
@steelopus That is the fanciest dressed mail carrier I have ever seen! Ours are in the blue shirts, comfy shoes and their blue shorts. Seriously, even polished shoes!
So USPS says it was delivered at about noon yesterday to in-laws house. “Left on porch”, we have talked to them and not a word about it. We don’t know what is going on. It is killing us not to ask. They use garage and maybe don’t know a delivery is sitting at door. Or maybe in mailbox for neighborhood thing and just listed weird.
Well after some troubles and a mail carrier that can’t figure out street name or addresses. It was found that it was delivered elsewhere. The local fire department got the delivery and figure out today where to bring it. Fire chief came in his bright truck!
Then we got a frantic call from them asking if they were getting 5 giant boxes of pasta!
After great amount of laughter and confusion it is a great time to be had. They gave a 10lb box to the fire chief to take back (it was all he would take) and a couple neighbors will get some and they say we have to take some. They will find good places for some of the other to go and keep a bag or two for themselves.
I was fortunate enough to come out of the game ahead again and received 40lbs of penne today. Going to probably ask my neighbors if they would like some, pastas been a bit of slim pickings here for a while.
20lb delivered today. I am happy with the purchase. Already used my code for Meh on the MacBook Air cover that my wife wants for her birthday anyway. Double Score
Well… might need Usps complaint thread. Usps says delivered yesterday at noon. They were at the house and have checked neighbors houses. No packages delivered.
Have emailed support to see if I can find what needed to submit lost mail on Usps site.
Anyone else still waiting?? My gift appears to be stuck in Indiana facility since June 2nd with zero updates? I mean I know this is the most cut rate shipping possible, but two weeks with no movement?
I assume at some point my sister is getting like 500lbs of pasta, but they really don’t want to deliver it.
@dodohead partially waiting… Yes. I ordered the first two drops for my wife. I’ve received both pastas but there is still one box of pasta stuck with Pitney Bowes. I don’t know if it’s the Penne or the Spaghettini…
There are two lotteries at play here. One the pasta lottery… How much will you get? And two… The Putney Bowes lottery… When will you get it?
@dodohead Still waiting here too. Ordered 5/18. Delivered to Greenwood, IN 6/2 and no movement since. I’m a little concerned now since 2 other Mediocre purchases were delivered to the same warehouse on 6/6 and then show arrived there on 6/17. Does that mean they arrived on the shipping dock and weren’t checked in to the facility by anyone for 11 days? Has our pasta not even been checked in for 15 days? We’re definitely losers in the Pitney Bowes lottery. Hopefully big winners in the pasta lottery. I’d bet one greenback that the PB staff is just sick of hefting 20lb boxes that plainly say they’re loaded with noodles.
I am sorry you are closing. The site was hysterical and the pasta was good. Would have been a regular customer both for myself and others. Best to all of you!
Are there any Mediocre sites where we still can get the pasta? Best!
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
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Free From: Milk
Free From: Peanuts
Free From: Tree Nuts
Free From: Soy
Contains Wheat
Free From: Crustacean
Free From: Fish
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I try to send to a friend’s address, Nothing but same errors as people above. I order to myself, with plans to give to another, and order Instantly goes through.
Hoping sending to myself is still valid for voucher codes.
IF not, horrible experience.
Yes I can cancel, But the funds are now immediately on hold for days.
As someone who has been in banking for 27 years, 10 of those in the credit card industry, I have grown to dislike debit cards and favor credit cards for this reason.
It is my opinion that you should put all purchases on a credit card instead of a debit card for dispute resolution at the minimum. There are other reasons too but that should be reason enough.
If you are so close to your credit limit on your credit card that a $20 authorization is going to hurt your ability to make another purchase, you might have other problems. Your FICO score is partly calculated based upon your balance in relation to your credit limits. If you’re too close, you’re considered over extended and you lose FICO points.
In worst case scenario, you can contact your bank to have an authorization removed if you have proof that the order has been canceled. I used to do that for people when I first started in the industry back in 1990 so they probably still do that today. Also, many banks allow you to go over your credit limit by a certain percentage – depending on your risk assessment. Authorizations that were just holding credit but never charged do not appear as part of your balance so wouldn’t be held against you for credit limit overage fees – as long as the charge is never posted.
@cengland0
814 credit score. It’s stuck.
20$ won’t hurt me, I’m just a cheap asshole like most Americans. My main wasn’t anything other than ordering for the vouchers.
As I said, Order cancelled.
Ordered again after having a snickers bits size for blood surgar.
@liammc@RiotDemon@Star2236 the code “pastadrop” works for the buyer on sites other than pastadrop. It is a one-time thank you for participating. A $5 code for pastadrop is inside the package and works for the receiver, valid on their first use of pastadrop only.
I have a coupon code that can be used once and it has to be used by 100 people a week. I would like to know when do the drops change? Monday at Midnight or Sunday at 1pm I have been late to the party two weeks in row.
I was confused and just left the shipping address as my address thinking maybe it would prompt for where I wanted to actually send it. I know, I know… Probably dumb, but usually shipping address is used to verify the credit card transaction.
@RascalMJ there’s a checkbox after your shipping address that says “billing address is the same as shipping address” if you uncheck it, then you can change the shipping address.
You can cancel your order and redo it it hasn’t been that long.
Thought I got an error but went through with that one word from that one email. Order page shows price but email shows (discount) just a heads up for folks wondering if it worked for them.
Can’t wait to use those VMP codes on the other sites as well!
I can buy pasta at the store for about $1 a pound. I dont see how this even makes sense. No sauces/other items included to make a nice pasta dinner? No sale.
@synapses11 You do realize most of the people buying this are sending it as a gag, right? It’s not supposed to make economic sense, or really any kind of sense. The only benefit right now is making your $20 back in the $50 worth of coupon codes.
The spaghettini I ordered hasn’t even shipped yet. Why would I buy more pasta when I’m not even sure how much my last order is gonna get? Maybe sell an appropriate amount and become a “pasta of the week” club…
MorningSave still has 20-pound shipments of various pasta shapes for $34 listed (although they’re sold out and have been for weeks). It wouldn’t be like Meh to sell half that on PastaDrop for $20, and given the MS packages are two 10-pound packages, I’m leaning toward these being 20-pound deliveries, too.
@cblack@djwitzel
I think it is they have X lbs of pasta, and Y people sent noods. So each recipient gets X/Y amount of pasta, whatever that is. The endgame is for Mercatalyst to have zero pasta in its warehouse.
Since the webiste won’t let me send noods to anyone else as advertised, I’ve ordered me some of these Schrödinger’s Noods and I’ll have to reship these fuckers myself. At least VMP is saving me from paying twice to ship them. I feel sorry for anyone that doesn’t have VMP or Mehmbership.
Trying to stay positive, ordered the penne (on 5/18!) and linguini, neither has shipped. Are they communicating with anyone? All I’ve seen is to be patient due to high order volume. Maybe they need to hit the pause button and play catch up? I want to love this so much but getting frustrated!
@Barney@rbreier433 my penne order still shows estimated delivery June 1-8, but it just shipped today. I’ve got meh orders from May 15, that shipped May 18, and still show no sign they have left Texas.
So I’m figuring another 2-3+ weeks to find out how much penne was sent?
@kevinrs@rbreier433 If you scroll up to the top of this sales page, you will see that they did a ninja edit on the estimated delivery date. Yep, they do that sometimes. So in their minds, with the new June 15-19 delivery dates, they feel that they will be right on time or with luck, maybe even early.
@Barney@rbreier433 but my order status us still showing the original date range. But anyway, the last meh order I received took about a week total, from April 29 order to May 6 delivery. I ordered multiple items from the mehrathon May 15, and more since, but nothing’s been delivered, some have still not been scanned outside Texas. The PB website is warning of delays 10 or more days. If a week was normal, it looks like all my orders are headed for that week + 10 days + more. I’m sure most will eventually arrive, but in my experience, the longer in transit, the more damage to packaging, and multiple meh orders have been barely in a half open, half crushed box on arrival already. I don’t know if pasta can survive that.
@kevinrs@rbreier433 If it will make you feel any better, the 20#'s of pasta comes in a pretty sturdy large box, (mine had taken a bit of a beating). Inside were two boxes, containing 10#'s each of pasta. The pasta was pretty well padded in bubble wrap and nothing was broken.
@kevinrs@rbreier433 Um… I’m talking about the Spaghettini order that I got. I don’t know anything else about the others. However, if they can get that spindly spaghetti pasta unbroken to me, I have high hopes for the other pastas.
Just received 20 LBS of Penne Rigate pasta. The postal person appeared to be distressed and he said that he had to make multiple drops today. Carry to the door and return to vehicle.
Anyway, the question at hand is;
Is this product Kosher?
I’ve read the ingredients list and there is nothing to preclude it from certification. (but to be served in our home, it needs a Rabbinical Oversight which a LOT of the makers of Pasta already maintain.
We’ve asked and are hoping to hear back before November Freeze. Until then, Penne is in the box and will not be freed from containment.
@unclespammy I don’t know, but curious: when you go to Italian restaurants are they usually Kosher?
The brand they’re dropping don’t very often sell to home consumers, they usually sell to restaurants. Performance Foodservices is one of the biggest suppliers to Italian restaurants.
You might want to ask them directly if you don’t get an answer from meh. If usually restaurant pasta is kosher you’re probably in luck. If restaurant pasta isn’t normally kosher, this probably won’t be either.
@OnionSoup Restaurant pasta (and other food, for that matter) generally isn’t kosher (except, obviously, in kosher restaurants) because it’s being prepared in a non-kosher environment/kitchen/etc. with non-kosher equipment, even if the raw ingredients are.
@shinino@tabbysandhuskys I’m waiting to see if next week is Macaroni. Dropping on my mum if they do if the stars align and it’s cavatappi I’m dropping myself… Lol… Not that I need more pasta
My sister got 20lbs. It was hilarious. $1/lb isn’t a horrendous price for pasta either. The funniest thing is the receipt lists the quantity using the inflated “servings” count on the back of the bag. 160 servings of pasta. I can only imagine people’s reaction to seeing 800 servings listed on the receipt.
My Italian friend just got her 20 lbs. drop of pasta…since it was a surprise, I had hoped for a bit more pounds-wise for a bigger laugh, but $1 a pound, is not too bad. Hope my next order has more so I can donate it to a nearby soup kitchen. They really need it right now.
@Dougaa I would say the same, except for the coupons for their other sites included with the purchase. I have redeemed more than $20 worth of those on a couple other purchases and feel that 10 lbs. of free pasta is okay.
@Dougaa@Skorpeyon Oh man, now I gotta buy more crap. As I always tell my kids:
“That’s how they get you!”
Ah well, at least it was fun to see the disbelief on my wife’s face when she saw how big the box was and how much pasta was inside. We’ll be trying to pawn off one of the bags to a friend hopefully coming by to deliver some Trader Joe’s Ube Mochi Pancake & Waffle Mix.
@Dougaa@notyoutoo Yeah, we’re moving soon so there have been a few things popping up here and there that were worthwhile to get, one was 50% off with the $10 coupon from buying the pasta drop for example, and they give you $50 worth of coupons, $10 for each of their sister sites. It wasn’t hard to use them up since we had things we actually needed, lol.
My daughter and her husband are having a much-needed laugh over the 20 pounds of pasta they received this afternoon. Fortunately, they have storage space.
Everyone slurping down the penne and we still havent received the spaghettini here. PB held it up in Texas and just left the other day. My week one is set to arrive on Tuesday the same day my sister receives week two. (Penne) Skipped over week 3 but ordered week 4 (ziti) for my other sister. I have a bad feeling about the shape my box will arrive in next week after hearing how many others have arrived beaten up with the bags torn open. Kicking around in the Texas facility for 2 weeks, I’m sure my noods have seen some things
Holy mother of meatballs. I just checked my shipping and I can’t see each boxes weight but it is 4 boxes of penne. I dropped a total of 8 drops so far. 2 to sis, 2 to me, 1 to each of 2 brothers, 1 to mom, and 1 to the 8 year old niece. If we all get 80lb drops, I’m gonna laugh so hard.
The penne pasta drop box looks like it was drop SEVERAL TIMES it had 80 servings I am not sure it weighed 20 lbs But crock pot cooking it and packaged them for a year of food good buy
@OnionSoup Thank you! We had CrockPot Penne Pasta Last Night Totally Awesome. Two Jars of Sauce. 2 Bell Peppers. 1/2 Onion. 1/2 Zucchini 1 lb Spicy Italian Sausage … Sautéed Add Italian seasons, Tomatoes , sage . Two cups Pasta and everything else in Crock. Set high 4 hours . Add Cheese as cheese as you want! YUMMMMM!
@SLepe BTW, it will only show the tracking/weight for your one box. Could be that you will be receiving more than one box. To find that out, you need to go USPS Informed Delivery to get all of your mediocre.com tracking numbers (if there are more).
@Barney Wow, thanks for sharing this info. I just found out I had 4 packages sent out 17 days ago. I still haven’t received them and it looks like they may not all be together.
Got my penne ! Let’s see, it made the 1700+ mile trip from Grapevine, TX to my Northern California home in about 4 days (shipped on 6/2, received on 6/6). Meanwhile, the penne I dropped on an unsuspecting friend who lives in Lewisville, TX was shipped on 5/30 and has yet to arrive… Grapevine, TX is less than 13 miles from Lewisville, TX…
@chaosdreamer That’s because it needs to take a vacation to Greenwood, Indiana (near Indy), or even perhaps in Commerce, CA for a few days. Lots of options for Pitney Bowes package vacations during this pandemic.
40lbs of Penne arrived today, and not via the tracking number I expected so there is at least one other package out there on the way. Going to have to find places to donate it or hand a bunch off to friends/family!
My wife’s Penne finally arrived… And of course it had to arrive the one day my wife isn’t home. (Although counting boxes coming from Mediocre on Informed Delivery and what I’ve actually ordered I believe there is another box of Penne yet to come that was separated from it’s brethren).
My wife was a little annoyed but mildy amused with 40lbs of Spaghettini… Not sure how she will react when she gets home at midnight tonight and finds 80lbs of Penne.
It’ll be even funnier if another box arrives tomorrow as I suspect it eill.
Any suggestions on how to arrange the pasta for her return?
I brought my large googly eyes home from work yesterday to place on the stack of boxes to make a box man… But the boxes are too busy it doesn’t look good.
Another idea is to open all the boxes and the inner boxes (assuming packed same as spaghettini) and use the boxes to make a wall blocking her entrance into the living room.
Poor mailman. We have a really steep driveway and he had to make two trips up carrying pasta. What do mailmen think of Penne as a tip?
I love you @snapster, this was a grand experiment.
Mom got 10# of baby spaghetti, she gave a package to my uncle, both were happy. My brother got 20# and was pretty excited, he and his family will probably eat it all. We got ours today, 5x 20# boxes! Mailman was pretty confused, but he’s a great mailman, so he got a 10# package of penne! There’s pasta dropping to more friends, and an essential worker neighbor with 4 kids! What a great way to bring smiles to folks! Thanks!
Package arrived the other day but someone burgled it in the hallway of my targets building. They were unable to abscond with all of it and half was left in the mangled box. Definitely worth it!
Arrived today - 20 lbs. of Roma brand durum semolina linguine in two 10 lbs. cellophane packages packed individually in separate boxes and shipped in one box holding all that. I was going to give some to my next door neighbor but how do I give 10 lbs. at a time?
@stivman Have you tried tracking it on the USPS site? Pitney Bowes shows the same for me (in Indiana for 10 days), but USPS shows that it has been moving along the past few days.
Anyone else have issues with this order?? Order was placed on 5/18…still says “processing” a month later! I ordered another PD at the same time and that one arrived last week. Sent an e-mail to support, but has not been responded to. Thoughts??
The box looked like it had been dropped off a building and then Hulk dropped an elbow on it My friends said it was completely demolished. Not so much penne as piece-e.
My pasta was shipped on June 1, but I think it’s hitchhiking from Texas. I did get the codes for the other sites and have tried them, but everything I have ordered is having the same shipping issues.
I think PB may just have a bucket brigade set up from Texas to wherever this stuff is headed, moving a box at a time. I may have it to my house in time for the fall pandemic.
I thought this was hilarious at first. Overall execution was poor. Taking a month to be delivered, then postal carrier didn’t leave it on the porch or deck of the victim so it ended up back at the post office. I couldn’t sign up for redelivery due to staffing issues, so I had to tell the victim they had to visit the post office. They got 20 pounds. I saw this pasta at cost co for 10.99 a bag last week. I could have bought it, walked the 60 miles and walked home before the pasta I ordered A MONTH AGO was delivered. May 18 - June 24. Weak Sauce to go along with the pasta. The exuberance is insubstantial.
I was thinking of being sensible and waiting to see what the first order was like and whether my neighbor and I could eat that much before ordering more - BUT - I see they both have the same delivery dates making me think there is going to a landslide of noods June 1-8 and everyone just loves penne rigate so …
/giphy descriptive-bowed-suggestion
Sent some to my brand new roommate. Forgot to change the ship to name the first time, so I had to cancel and order a second time. I still get coupons, right? I’m not here just for the coupons; I like pasta and sending stuff to friends too, but… I mean, look, you bribed me to support the casemates kickstarter, so obviously I’m a sucker for a good coupon code. But I did also end up buying wine that one time. It was bubbly.
@Oneroundrobb also, I forgot to uncheck billing address is same as shipping address. Is there gonna be an issue if the billing address has a different name than the credit card (but the correct address otherwise)?
I need to know how much I sent my sister. I want to tell her the net carbs and how many days she needs to spread the pasta out over just to be a jackass…
@snapster So, what if I had a major brain spark and realized I should have ordered this to be sent to our local Food Bank instead of to my home. Since they haven’t shipped yet, can we change the delivery address?
Im just afraid these will come in bulk and not individual packages. If they do, I dont want to waste what we cannot eat. Does anyone know if they are individually packaged?
@debs3hrtscmj They have to wait until they earn the money for this week to pay for last week so they can ship… So none of us have received last week’s yet. #secretpyramidscheme
I’ve noticed in general on all their sites it takes a few seconds longer recently to process a purchase… But I’ve not had any problems getting it to work…
Mehbe this question has been asked and ignored already, but does everyone get the same amount of noods? Or do different people get different amounts? I guess that’s part of the secret process of the pastadrop. Hey, mediocrebot! Do you stick penne in your cornhole?
@chienfou@Ignorant I got my shipping notification. It’s being sent USPS Parcel Select, which maxes out at 70lbs. My wife won’t be as annoyed with less than 100lbs, but it’ll have to do. I’m running out of wine storage space from casemates orders. Now I need pasta storage space.
@Cerridwyn@Unknownie I wonder which I will get first. Penne or Spaghettini. Penne hasn’t shipped yet, but Spaghettini hasn’t left first warehouse in Texas yet, so there’s a chance Penne gets a good current and bypasses the Spaghettini.
… Who am I kidding, it’ll sit in the post for a month too.
@jakeline There are reports in the spaghettini thread of 100 lb deliveries. There are also a few people saying they got more than one package but were only sent one tracking number, so it might be possible your sister will get more than 20lbs.
Tracking on mine is 10 lbs 10 oz. So I’ve got a 10 lb bag of $2 a pound pasta on the way…
Not going to repeat it. Some of the 50-100 lb shipments should have been a little smaller, so the smallest could be bigger.
I can get any one of the 4 brands of pasta in the store cheaper, at this point it’s in stock, and the store brand is $0.78 for a pound.
The way the spaghettini posts are showing the condition of the packages are arriving in: penne may arrive as a box of penne chips.
@Cloudscout those coupons are first order only, and I’ve only found a use for 1 so far. So ordering a second time and risking another standard quality 10 lb box of pasta at super gourmet prices doesn’t seem smart.
Not that the first order has gotten even close to being delivered. Still shows texas.
@Curtis25 $28? How was it $28? It wasn’t $20 for pasta and $5 for shipping?
Is shipping on a single item really up to $8 now? Better off doing the monthly $5 shipping… You can set your self a reminder the day, or two days before to cancel the shipping if you’re worried about a subscription fee. That way you get free shipping on anything on the sister sites too… For a whole month… Well… Not free shipping because you pay $5 for… But no extra shipping.
Chances are with the $5 shipping you’ll buy more because not having to pay shipping costs each time makes the items they sell better values.
@OnionSoup Yes its $8 I don’t want to play games with shipping subscriptions I just want pasta. And $25 for $10 worth of pasta still isn’t a good deal.
@Curtis25 understood. Yeah, I’d be annoyed if I paid $20+ and only got 10lbs too. No consolation to you, but sounds like the 10lb drops are pretty rare and most people got way more.
I’m lucky I got 40lbs first drop (which is great because enough to be amusing but not too much it becomes obnoxious)… Second drop PB website says is 20lb box (but doesn’t say if one or more boxes)… So getting at least 20 again, which isn’t a bad deal.
It’s fun some people get insane 100lb drops,.but really 10lb isn’t fair.
Well, I’m feeling officially ripped off. Got my Penne Rigate drop yesterday. A single 10 pound bag. For $20 dollars. So two bucks a pound for some cheap-ass, bulk pasta that’s not very good.
I can get decent Penne all day long at Trader Joe’s for less than a buck a pound, so, yeah… Meh, you got me.
I got 10 pounds of pasta for 20 bucks that took over 3 weeks to get here. Sorry, not impressed. Never again, I’ll go to WalMart and save money. Yea, real cool, haven’t found anything to use the coupons for on any of the cheap crap on other sites either. Just another gimmick site…
To be fair I don’t think they ever pretended to be anything else.
Right? I don’t get why people are getting so mad at a site that explicitly said they were sending a random amount of pasta. Not to mention that the clear intention of the site was that you send it to a friend and I can’t help but notice that easily 90% of the complaining posts are people who sent it to themselves.
@slowbie , yup you’re right, I ended up sending it to myself after trying to change the shipping address to my wife for 20 minutes. I knew she’d be the one to get it while I was at work and have a “WTF” moment. I had just hoped to get a usable bag of pasta.
Got 20 pounds of this stuff, which should last our apartment a few days at least. The boxes also arrived a lot less damaged than some of the ones that got posted, so I’m glad for that.
@GLaDOS@paulcarlucci on your first drop you get a $10 coupon code for each site (Meh, Side Deal, MorningSave, Casemates, and Mediocritee) the email probably got filtered to your spam.
Enter code “pastadrop” on each of the sites at checkout.
My mom got 20lbs of penne delivered two days ago but no note in the box so she had no idea who it was from. (Why they left my note out is beyond me?) Then today I’m sitting, messing around on my phone and she text me and said she got another 20lbs delivered today but still no note. I checked and it said I only had 22lbs being delivered so who knows how much pasta is coming or where it’s coming from.
She got another box of 20 pounds today. My note was in both boxes so it was my order. No word from my brother, and the website still shows both as ‘processing’.
@AnnaB@duodec@Ignorant @snapster - you are aware that pitney bowes has fucked up all your fun and our fun and you should investigate if they are in breach of contract
@snapster Still shows processing on both orders. I’m going to ask my brother if anything unusual showed up because he’s been known to forget to contact about things. But my sister’s order has been received already, and there’s no tracking info or any indication from Mediocre that it even shipped. Is that Pitney Bowes or a warehouse issue?
@duodec@snapster Mine is also still processing. I sent a message to customer service and hope to hear from them soon. I had hoped Mom would get this by her birthday coming up, but that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.
@AnnaB@Cerridwyn@Ignorant
Now all in. My sister had another 60 pounds show up 8 days after the second 20 pounds. And my brother had 100 pounds show up the day before.
Both were very impressed and somewhat annoyed
My sister is going to donate a good chunk of it; my brother is going to keep it because their church and school still do big dinners every couple of months and pasta is always popular.
I was bummed when the email about the current one being the last came in; by the time I checked, it was sold out.
They never got to having radiatore pasta; I’d have bought that in a snap!
Emails came in yesterday, and the website order info also finally updated.
@Cerridwyn@duodec@Ignorant All of a sudden a tracking number appeared, even though my order still shows as processing. Also, apparently Mom got it yesterday, on her actual birthday. Haven’t spoken with her yet, so I don’t know if she really did or how much pasta she received.
I have no idea what’s going on. I received 40lbs of Spaghettini a week ago… 80lbs of Penne on Wednesday… And I’ve still got one 22lb box of something unknown from mediocre in a Pitney Bowes warehouse en route to me.
I don’t know if it’s a late box of Penne or a really late box of spagho… Or something else.
I have a 2lb box coming from Mediocre (I think my nuts weigh about 2lbs… So must be my nuts in the box… SideDeals had my nuts).
What’s in the box @randommehemployeewhodoesntreallyhavethisalias?
And now this morning, it doesn’t even show a tracking, just that it has been shipped. This is looking really bad for Pitney Bowes and Meh/PastaDrop/etc. But at least I got something from SideDeals.
Showed as processing until yesterday, now it says it shipped on may 27 and arriving today. Is there any way I can see the weight? I checked Pitney Bowes with no luck, and it’s going to my sister so I don’t want to ask her.
My whopping 10 pound delivery finally arrived today, including a note to go order more at pastadrop.com. Thanks to the lightning quick processing by your friends at Pitney Bowes, this was delivered long after the last drop sold out, so that’s quite a marketing strategy there. Maybe they deliberately held up the small shipments on purpose?
@martinam That makes sense, because when people get 10 and 20 lbs that doesn’t feed into the fun so much as the multiple box shipments. I would not/will not do this again. Execution was just piss poor.
@martinam@Pitmonkey Let’s assume for a second that 20 lbs. for $20 is the price – including averaging packaging, shipping, web site development costs, customer support, carrying charges, etc. – at which Mediocre makes reasonable money on the ordeal (they’re not a charity).
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.
This doesn’t address the probability of getting larger shipments. So let’s just assume 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.
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?
I think this might be an interesting adjacent study of “who would pay more for the IRK lottery?”
My 10 lbs should be delivered finally tomorrow. 20 really should have been the minimum, I couldn’t really find pasta that costs $2 a pound.
20 would be barely worth it, 10 just isn’t in any way
Still waiting for my penne… since May 27. “Tracking” info shows that it got closer on June 22. I think they tied it to balloons and are just waiting for the wind to blow in my direction to release it for final delivery. They can’t be using any kind of motorized transportation. They seem to be more of a storage company than a shipping company. Pitney Bowes… when you absolutely need something to get somewhere at some point in time, but don’t particularly care when, and don’t expect any updates during the process.
@warpedrotors It seems like Pitney-Bowes has begun to shake loose some of the shipments that had been stuck. I had 3 different shipments stuck in different Pitney Bowes centers, and they all seemed to have shaken loose in the past day or so, with all 3 being transmitted to the USPS yesterday. Once they’re handed to the USPS, then we get to deal with their current state of slowness as well… local package shipped from 20 miles away goes through a St. Louis facility that is adding 5-6 days to the delay.
Being a tubular pasta, penne turns out to be bulky, and even 10 lbs is a lot of penne. But it’s still probably not $20 worth of pasta. I can’t even think of what people are doing who received 100 lbs. That’s stack it up in the garage and find somewhere to donate it before it attracts mice quantity.
I just bought 8.8 lbs of organic spaghetti at costco for $10.
@kevinrs Pasta is shelf stable and can last for years if stored in a reasonable environment. Anyone with a pantry and some room has hit the jackpot with a big shipment.
We recently used some 15 year old Sams Club linguini; it cooked up perfectly and tasted great.
@duodec Considering the space just 10 lbs of penne takes up, I’m thinking few have space somewhere protected to store 100 lbs. Stored in just bags long enough, and mice or ants etc will chew into them. I mean 100 lbs could completely fill to overflowing a pantry if you even have one.
@kevinrs Our local food bank can repackage dry goods, that’s where we are making our donation. There’s a bit of concern about the 10 lb. bags, but the local (smaller) food pantries can deal with them especially for big families. My family is a family of 6, (4 sons) so we can burn through 10 lbs pretty quickly, usually 3 meals or so.
So some friends shipped us marshmallows from Target.com. To get free shipping they needed $25 worth. That’s 13 bags of marshmallows.
Pasta headed their way.
/giphy ill-advised-jellied-regret
I may be in the minority, but I’m looking at this similar to how I look at a scratch-off lottery ticket… or a BOC. The original goal of this temporary pasta delivery website was to help out both commercial pasta manufacturers / suppliers who had no one to sell to during the pandemic and also to keep Mediocre employees busy with shipments. Not sure anyone is making a ton of money on this (the article I read on it said that it was at best a break-even venture), and is an interesting way to get a lot of bulk pasta to food banks and soup kitchens.
I managed to score 100 pounds of pasta in this. Yay for me, but I only kept 10 pounds of it, and 90 pounds went to the local food bank, who were immensely thankful for the bounty.
Would I have been less happy if I had received 10 pounds instead of 100? Sure, but mostly because it would have been less pasta that I could donate to families in need.
I just think people need to keep this in perspective… if you had an extra $20 laying around to spend on a mystery amount of pasta, consider yourself lucky. Only getting 10 pounds of commercial grade pasta is literally the definition of a first world problem.
The goal of Pastadrop
Lasta pasta drop still not shipped so still don’t know how much we’re getting…
Hmm
Penne for your thoughts?
Ah yes, the penne rigate!
Gave you that first star, mediocrebot. Not sure why everyone is so rude to you!
@MikeDemo those are some big bags haha!
/giphy untalented-disturbed-nut
@panthyrr OH SNAP!!!
@panthyrr
/giphy ouch
So I ordered for a friend, and boy were we surprised… 5 boxes 100lbs of pasta… She said the poor postal lady gave her some strange looks for sure…
Thanks @snapster and all this has been great fun.
Just sent a heap of nood tubes to my mom.
@medz That sounds so dirty.
Every time, every time it rains, it’s gonna rain penne from heaven.
Ah yes, the penne rigate!
@curtise MACARONI
Not paying $20 for a completely unknown amount. Just add details people, I get you’re being “cute” but you’re only going to lose money.
@Telanis it’s part of the fun. No one is forcing you. Save your money and let someone else get your noods.
@Telanis but what if we only lose money when you order.
@Telanis week one sold out… So clearly people like the mystery.
think of it like an irk, you don’t know how much you’ll get, but it will at least be worth the price paid
@Telanis a fool and their money are soon parted
@Telanis I think a little bit of investigation will tell you how much pasta it is going to be.
@spitfire6006006 we hope
@Telanis I will, especially when the shelves at my local market are bare.
Also, I’m convinced that they want to make this a going concern, which means that they’ll have to satisfy their customers.
Let’s be clear:
This service is to ship your friend an unknown amount of Pasta.
This service is not to ship your friend an amount of pasta worth more than you paid. If you use it with that in mind, you’re not enjoying the experience at all.
@snapster Well, the amount I paid was “spending 10 minutes with Paint to make a silly movie poster” so it’s definitely worth more than I paid
@Telanis don’t be such a cranky pants
@Telanis
/giphy you do you
/giphy we really don’t need you here
/giphy shrug
@spitfire6006006 but Irks are only a $5 risk.
@snapster @Telanis I was legitimately wondering once I got my penne shipments…100# and I paid $20. That couldn’t have possibly even covered the shipping, let alone printing custom boxes, warehouse staff, not to mention your initial purchase price (presumably next to nothing if you’re blasting out this many noods in one order).
Well, thanks for the presumably money-losing but VMP-reinforcing stunt!
I’m very confused by my order code… Isn’t this what got us into this mess in the first place?
/giphy crude-rare-bat
@shiranissosexy yikes
I hope this doesn’t turn into penne regrete.
Penne is one of my favorite noods.
@trisk I must be having male pattern blindness. I can’t figure out how you added an image?
@dalekjoe press the button with the mountains and moon. If posting from your phone make sure to be in landscape mode before hitting the reply button.
@Ignorant
I got a very excited FaceTime call from my niece who was SO FREAKING THRILLED TO HAVE A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF PASTA OMG AMAZING DROPPED TO HER MOM’S HOUSE!!!
The whole family were all a bit incredulous (and the kids in particular were especially delighted) to have received 80lbs of Italy-made penne rigate…
Good show, PastaDrop! Good show!
…a while later I got a note from my sister that the pasta is really good but when I asked for a photo of the cooked goods, she replied: “Umm… they ate it all!”
Now, I only wish I could have also dropped some pasta here, eh?.. Hey @snapster and/or @dave, when are you guys coming up to visit Toronto (or better yet, set up an auxiliary warehouse here!?
) 
This time, sis managed to snap a photo before the entire batch was eaten! “They were eating it so fast I just remembered the picture in time!”
Hot noods:
Confirmed that the pasta is still really good! Bag #1 is already done (apparently it fed the neighbours too)!!
My first PastaDrop was a great success. 90 lbs of penne generating delightful responses, including:
“Our neighbors were watching in horror and amazement.”
&
“The mailman was shaking his head in disbelief as he drove away!”
The generous recipient is sharing the love with a handful of friends. And she has no doubts that her pasta-loving family will happily consume the bags that remain. I’m thrilled with the delivery and the reception.
I checked my tracking number with USPS tracking yesterday and noticed there were 5 (!) tracking numbers coming simultaneously from Meh, and sure enough, today I found them dumped over the gate - look like the mail guy took the Pasta “Drop” seriously!
@stolicat maybe pastadrop.com should add Fragile stickers to their shipping boxes?
@Brasssong @stolicat
Maybe a sticker like this would help?
/giphy lisping-jokey-flight
I hope my son likes an unknown amount of penne.
Ah yes, the penne rigate!
I thought “rigate” meant the penne had ridges? Does this have ridges? I don’t see them in the photos.
Ah yes, the penne rigate!
@RedHot checking. Thanks.
@RedHot turns out the photo is wrong. Sorry about that. Hope you like ridges!
@RiotDemon much appreciated! Ridges hold the sauce much more effectively.
There was a whole thing about the smooth stuff being the only pasta still on shelves in italy when C19 first started making waves
@RedHot you mean like Ruffles?
@mediocrebot, do you pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or do you prefer Penne-nce to something else?
Ah yes, the penne rigate!
Sent to my 16 year old nephew - no explanation included. I’m scared to post this confirmation
/giphy dead-hanging-scene
@sileolbree
I think we got off easy with this one.
@sileolbree that was risky (and it turned out absolutely wholesome)
Ordered even though I have 10lb of the same style pasta >.>… I just had to see for myself what it is lol
/giphy abashed-warn-crusader
what does 40lbs of Penne look like?
my friend’s joyous reaction has made this entire thing worth it.
Our order landed today! 100 pounds! Winner winner penne dinner … for a year. We let the postman keep one of the boxes, so now we’re at 80.
Also, thanks PastaDrop gang! This was so fun!
The post office employee said I am on a postal inspector’s watch list. They don’t believe a single person would order this much pasta and they wanted to know what was really in these boxes…Thanks Pasta Drop!
Forgot to say I received 5 boxes.
For some reason I can’t get a photo to paste from my phone. Urf!
@Brasssong If posting from your phone make sure to be in landscape mode before hitting the reply button, then press the button with the moon and mountains.
@Ebis Wow, you win! How many orders, or did that all come from just one?
@stolicat this was one I sent to my friend. She texted me this morning and was like “what did you do to me?!” She’s a single lady
So our friends were incredulous about getting 120lb in 6 boxes! They don’t know what to do.
Couple days later they got another 20lb and couldn’t handle it.
Finally a day later another 3 boxes! 200lbs of penne, they are threading about not getting anymore!
@raccoon81 But did you also drop them some linguine, some ziti, and some spaghetti too?
I order penne and this is what I get? What am I supposed to do with this?
@Moose You’re supposed to hug it for me.
@Moose Catwhisker Pasta is even finer than angel hair pasta. You hit the pasta lottery. The only problem will be retrieving it from the cat…
My order number was priceless-pervasive-death. Cancelled and reordered. WTF pasta people?
New order number
/giphy internal-festering-airport
Maybe have an intern go through your order number system?
Why did I order more Pasta???
/giphy thunderous-gallant-learning
@seraphmonkey That’s exactly what I’m asking myself.
/giphy absorbing-proficient-bit
noods inbound.
/giphy mouthy-bulbous-sofa
Whelp, I’m going to be in trouble with the wife…
/giphy enchanting-cute-salami
@firelord I gotta admit, I was expecting to see a salami…
@firelord I’m kinda glad we didn’t see a salami.
@firelord @sammydog01 The salami’s out of frame, but apparently it’s adorable.
I need gluten-free pasta but this purchase will allow Mrs. cengland0 to have pasta too while also leaving my special gluten-free pasta alone. Means more for me in the long run.
@cengland0 But it means more work for someone in having to make two different batches. Hmm… which one of you is the primary pasta chef?
@cinoclav you use the term “pasta chef” loosely. I don’t call the person boiling water a chef. I just need to make sure she doesn’t share utensils while cooking both versions.
Done. Hopefully, I won’t be cut off without a penne.
Penne is one of my favorite noods.
Had it sent to my roommate, can’t wait to see the look of confusion on his face when he opens it up. Plus I get some of the stash!
/giphy malignant-athletic-hour
hopefully this will feed my baphomet for at least a week
@satan666 make sure to add a red sauce to make most baphomets happy.
/giphy mottled-dormant-narwhal
my brother and his wife have a 7 month old kid, new house. seems like noodles are what they need most in their life.
@the_inevitable this might be the best giphy i’ve ever had.
Time for a shipment to myself!
/giphy monstrous-mousy-platinum
Shipped these to my husband. I can’t wait to see his face.
/giphy worthless-useless-cocktail
@neuroticsilence SAMANTHA IS ON POINT. THANKS GIPHY!
To my eldest son who foresaw the crisis and started stockpiling supplies in January. His siblings gave him a hard time until about mid-March. Now he can make chicken riggies. (That’s probably an Upstate NY thing.)
/giphy reflective-facetious-knowledge
First Rule of Pasta Club.
Sent my first order to my local food bank. I hope you guys are not sending over three packets of pasta: that would be embarrassing for both me and you!
Thanks for the coupons
@salpo we took the cheese packets out of some mac and cheese boxes but should still taste good
@snapster that’s mean!
@salpo @snapster
that’s awesome!!
right @mediocrebot?
POPSOCKETS! COURT DOCKETS! FOLK ROCK HITS! AWESOME!
I’d like to say how dumb this concept is but I’ve sent two orders and neither of them were to myself, so who’s the real dummy here? It’s me, buying unknown quantities of pasta.
My sister has been making hand sanitizer, hundreds of face masks, and legit professional-level bread and baked goods for her neighbors who still can’t get bread regularly (she lives in a rural area and their grocery stores are still a little dire), and she refuses to accept money for any of this. The least I can do is give her a completely unknown (but hopefully ridiculously large) amount of pasta for her to shovel at her teenagers as a thank you for her work.
/giphy obstinate-amazing-fighter
Apologies if already suggested, but it would be fun to drop a random or targeted Meh user; just would have to figure out how to keep their shipping address private and not become sender’s default address.
@lehigh agree. this was one of our first internal feature desires but alas was not able to be built for quick launch and short duration of this pop-up. hoping for another similar application.
I received word that my penne was inducted into the Newgistics Hall of Fame; err, no, the Pitney Bowes system of doom. 2 days in TX, 6 day tour of Greenwood IN, and then off to me after 4 more days or so of rattling around USPS in STL area.
I also see it’s a 10 lb, 10 oz shipment. 2-for-2 on 10 lbs. Says it will likely arrive on Saturday.
@chuegen where’d you find the info about weight? i was wondering about the size of my penne (insert joke here) but don’t know where to look.
@chuegen @pippakay go to the PB website. Once you pull up the tracking you can hit the little locator pin and get more info.
https://pitneybowes.shipment.co/track
@chuegen @RiotDemon thanks! 10lbs8oz.
i’m oddly…disappointed. it’s like a more expensive IRK.
@chuegen @pippakay it’s not just the size of the penne, but whether it’s al-dente.
@chuegen @pmarin the sauce is also important. i hear pineapple juice helps with acidity.
I sent some friends this pasta drop and one called me today yelling “STOP SENDING ME PASTA” because boxes just keep up. Had to explain I have no control over the amount. 100 lbs so far
Got mine, technically my BF did as it was his bday gift. It’s gonna be a pasta salad summer.
our order arrived. 10 pounds. for $20.
kinda meh, but it’s like a lottery ticket, right? it’s been fun reading about people who won the pasta lottery, and the coupon codes make up for some of my instant regret.
hopefully the linguine i sent to friends will be a more impressive amount.
I now own a comical amount or penne. Received 20lbs on Wednesday and thought that was quite a bit. Then another 60lbs arrived on Thursday. Wow that’s a lot of pasta. Then another 20lbs arrived on Friday. wtf. I wish I had done this to someone else.
How are you able to ship five 20lb boxes for $20?
@Rstoker by sending just one 10lb box to me for the same $20.
@Rstoker The “random amount” that is mentioned in the FAQ. If you assume that Meh gets a good cut at the $1/lb. price (which is what you usually see in the grocery stores), then for every person getting 100 lbs. (the “crazy load”), 8 people have to get the 10 lb. “loser load”. For every person getting 40 lbs. (the “enhanced load”), 2 people have to get the 10 lb. “loser load”.
I have twice gotten the “loser load” (spaghettini and penne); once gotten the “normal load” (ziti); and once the “enhanced load” (linguini). So technically, up to this point, I’m pretty much a break-even customer for them with my “loser loads” covered by my linguini.
The fun will come with the spaghetti as I did a bunch of family members in addition to the donation. For the local donations, I’ve found it easier just to ship to me, cover up the shipping label, and drop the box on local porches of my, erm, victims.
So, my letter carrier gave me a card for “You have six packages at the post office. I couldn’t fit them in the truck.” So I drive up to the post office…to get 120 lbs of penne rigate.
Pitney Bowes totally sucks. My pasta was in Los Angeles (where I live) for almost 2 weeks and now I see it just got sent to a facility 50 miles further away. Oh pasta where or where are you?
@Kon finally got my 20 lbs of penne just in time for Father’s Day! My kids thought is was hysterical. Hooray!
My pasta finally arrived. 10#, which is $2 per pound. Kind of expensive. And had a coupon for $5 off on my next order, which of course is moot.
On the other hand, I did use the $10 coupons for the other sites, and all of them have been delivered from the clutches of Pitney Bowes. So I’m cool with spendy pasta.
Success! 20# of penne dropped on my victim yesterday. Based on the pictures that’s still far more than anyone should ever have in the pantry at once.
Welp, I got it not to say “expired” but at the same time it didn’t “take”. Or did it? Anyway, ordered to pasta bomb one of my sisters…
/giphy pressed-noiseless-nacho
@lehigh if you look at your order page, you’ll see what you paid.
@RiotDemon Yep – like others I got an error screen but then an email came with the order amount.
@lehigh yeah, scratch what I said. Shows in the email.
@RiotDemon That answers the question I had earlier that got deleted. And I worded it very carefully!
@lehigh that looks pretty yummy
Hopefully my order goes through this time (especially since I am paying for it this week)
/giphy blushing-teeming-route
@snapster Just curious when do the coupons get sent out? I ordered one last week (and again this week) and haven’t seen anything yet. Is it when it ships out?
@mongoose7000 upon using PastaDrop the first time, the code
pastadropworks for $10 off on other sites from the account used. An email is generated about an hour after your first purchase but this detail here is all you need.@mongoose7000 the coupon email came shortly after the confirmation. It probably went to spam or promotions like mine did.
@RiotDemon Good call thats exactly where it was!
Sending it to some friends who just had their 4th kid. They could use a LOT of pasta mediocrebot, wink-wink
/giphy sleazy-springy-road
/giphy frozen-unsightly-giant
So @snapster, I think Slate missed some nuance you could have shared for this article… https://slate.com/business/2020/05/pasta-shortage-coronavirus-why.html
@lehigh good to see this article actually — we cannot get anymore pasta at the importer level for what it’s worth.
@lehigh @snapster Noods amount going to go down…
So @mediocrebot, which product was it you put cyanide and rat poison in? Was it the Penne?
Penne is one of my favorite noods.
@mediocrebot darn it. You were supposed to say “ah yes the penne”
You ruined my joke
Ah yes, the penne rigate!
@mediocrebot @OnionSoup lol
@mediocrebot @OnionSoup very well acted. 65 rotten tomatoes
/giphy abstract-oval-marble
sent noods to myself. what the hell did I just do?
and why?
lockdown is getting to me, I think.
at least I’ll have noods to keep me company…
and mister pippakay, if he’s still talking to me when he realizes I’ve been sending noods TO MYSELF through the mail.
My mother just received her pasta drop in the mail. Forty pounds of penne. I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time, thanks.
@samremo If only we could record reaction videos!
Shipping said 20 pounds, but folks ended up with 80! Made their day!
@Vrysen if you get more than 20 lbs. it comes in multiple boxes. The e-mail from PastaDrop only includes 1 tracking number. However, if you use (Un)Informed Delivery from the USPS, it’ll show you if you have more on the way from MEDIOCRE COMPANY. So I go to Informed Delivery, look for the tracking numbers from PastaDrop, then plug them into the Pitney Bowes site to see the total.
@chuegen thanks, but honestly, I’m just happy they got pasta and a lot. Now I get to get a box of penne since the spaghettini is never gonna ship to me. And if does it will be broken and open and meh.
Got my 10lbs. of overpriced pasta. First and last drop I’ll buy.
PASTA HAS DROPPED!
Got the shipment just today. Six big Boxes, each with two smaller boxes, each with a 10-pound bag of pasta. All told, 120 glorious pounds of penne rigate.
How to attach picture from mobile…
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ra7SghvyF5psCvnF7
@PocketBrain https://pastadrop.com/forum/topics/the-penne-rigate#5ee063052563f10f30ee9b87
@PocketBrain 120lbs! All Penne?
I think that’s the record so far. I wonder if that was a mistake and they meant to send 100.
After my wife sees the delivery I might go play santa and anonymously drop a 10lb bag of penne on the front doorsteps of all our good neighbours
@PocketBrain
For anyone whose shipment seems to be stuck at a Pitney Bowes facility, try entering the tracking number on the USPS site. Pitney Bowes has shown my package as sitting in Greenwood, IN for over a week now. USPS shows that it arrived at a USPS facility in Oxford, MS yesterday afternoon.
So my buddy got his first box on Monday. Then got 2 more boxes yesterday. Then got 2 more today. 80 lbs so far! I hope they keep coming because I can’t stop laughing. So much fun!
Got 60lb yesterday. Mail lady asked “Is this really pasta?”
Another 40lb showed up today! Girlfriend will be using a bit of it to make some pasta salad for my birthday party.
Similar story - 20 lbs of penne arrived at my sister’s house last week, this morning she sent me an email: “oh. em. gee. Please make it stop! Got another 20 lbs in today’s mail!!” LOLOLOL!!! I kind of hope that’s it for her, she does have a kind of sensitive psyche! Can’t wait to hear the linguine story from my niece, when they get that!! This has been great fun, Mercatalyst folks, thanks!!!
Umm, did anyone else’s shipping say things like container load, trailer depart, and trailer arrive? I’m officially terrified now and have no one to blame but myself… So. Much. Fun! Though.
@moonhat didn’t wear a mask to the grocery store.
@Karpadm76 I was wondering who would get the pallet load. I thought about a container load, but thought that would be ridiculous. More fool me.
@JOATMON You know there is a REALLY bad joke here about accepting such a large load from the mailman but I digress…
@Karpadm76 I kind of want to see a screenshot of that
@kevinrs me too but i just got a pic from my sis of 6 boxes of penne. She got 1 last week and was appreciative but it was lacking in the humor department. I sent her hubs and kiddo each a random drop 2 days ago. Now 6 more boxes of penne show up and the ziti isnt even there yet… oops. She says im dead to her now. Lol I cant wait till my niece, whos shipping now says delivery exception, and is 8, gets her princess noodles. I have laughed so hard in the last 3 hours it hurts.
Pasta finally dropped and my brother sang about it.
pasta drop song
Friends in Pittsburgh just had the drop of 100lbs! Best prank on them yet!
Hope you like pasta, they said.
This is the linguine (3 boxes) and the penne (4 boxes), all of which arrived this week. My co-workers think this is the most hilarious thing ever.
My sister lives in the woods (and I mean far into the woods) in northern California. This got dropped of at her neighbor’s, she had to borrow a golf cart to get it home, and she had no idea I sent it. This went better than I could have hoped
Well, today has been our 4th consecutive day of pasta deliveries and we’re up to 160 pounds of penne. Although I feel mildly bad for the mail carrier, I think a 10# gift of penne for her this week will make me feel less so.
@ruthersby Real talk with me - how can you offer pasta to a hard-working mail carrier without coming off as creepy? I totes owe my carriers some pasta love.
@melonscoop So, we made a point to meet our mail carrier when we moved into the neighborhood and are on a first name basis with her. It certainly helps ensure really smooth service and she’s great! We get a lot of mail/packages so keeping her happy is always a priority. She happily took it with a smile and laugh.
I’ve been out of town a lot and saw that my penne was delivered last week. I asked my neighbor if she could please move the box from the porch into my house so as to not broadcast my absence.
Poor Kayla! She moved 160lbs of noodles! At least I know how I can express my gratitude for her help. With pasta, of course.
@melonscoop I stand corrected - there was 100lbs of penne and 60 pounds of linguini. Still an impressive haul. Thanks PastaDrop!
/giphy popular-usual-ferret
Got an error but then an email 15 minutes later saying the order went through. Guess I’m getting noods after all!
@dmod check your orders page.
Yay! Order went thru. Only had to click the button some forty times.
/giphy moody-stinky-pigeon
@PocketBrain You’ll probably have 41 & 1/2 orders
How much pasta we talkin here?
/giphy hal 2001
@mediocrebot I love you Mediocrebot!
@Rebelfixed “What’s PastaDrop? You can ship pasta to friends without knowing how much you’re sending.”
@mediocrebot
now we know where you came from?
@mediocrebot @sammydog01 no, I love Mediocrebot!!
@mediocrebot @moonhat WE CAN SHARE!
@mediocrebot @sammydog01 we will share your love, @mediocrebot. yes, sharing is caring.
@caffeineguy @Rebelfixed sent to my grandson, he got 4 huge bags, 360 servings he said!
/giphy tantalizing-lacy-observation
Hope my brother in law likes what’s coming his way!
/giphy operatic-mainstream-hedgehog
My mom is gonna hate me but oh well
/giphy silky-neutral-clam
/giphy theatrical-precipitous-iguana
Not sure what I just did but that guy that I don’t know very well might enjoy his pasta I guess.
/giphy dippy-demanding-bone
finally able to think of someone worth $20 to me
I wonder if she’ll trade me for the skinny spaghetti i ordered for myself?
/giphy beaming-savvy-penguin
I’ll find out what gets sent as it’s going to my sister. This’ll be amusing.
/giphy skilled-foul-decision
Sending a drop to my brother – two teenagers in the house should help. My first drop, so we’ll see how this goes.
/giphy laughable-curvy-guide
I sent two boxes of noods to my house, because why not? I LOVE NOODS!
My sister is in for a surprise
/giphy mandatory-hazy-fruit
@tjg5181 what. The. Hell.
@moonhat haha holy shit never even put the two together! I never know what giphy is going to drop with these order names! Haha order being shipped to MA bot to Alabama or Florida
/giphy hell no
/giphy heavenly-racy-comparison
Did anyone else just get the email this morning saying “Hello pasta droppers of the world! It’s Monday…” ?
Being work from home already has me confused on days sometimes, the email really had me checking the calendar!
@mongoose7000 yeah lol. Confused me too
@Alien88 @mongoose7000 Same! I thought, “wait, another one so soon?”
Fun Fact: Penne Rigate is slang for “Rough Penis” in some countries.
Ah yes, the penne rigate!
@adambclay which reminds me. Baguette is a word with many meanings in France.
It can mean skinny loaf of bread, as it does here, but it can also be used as a euphemism for penis, chopsticks are called baguettes, legs are sometimes called baguettes, a policeman’s truncheon is a baguette… And a magicians wand is a baguette.
That’s right… In Harry Potter books in France the wizards pointed their baguettes at each other to cast spells. (Lord Voldemort’s middle name was “Elvis” in the French Harry Potter to make the anagram work in French).
@adambclay @OnionSoup Those are like the opposite of fun facts.
Apparently the NOODS have arrived.
No word on the quantity yet. Just a pic teaser.
@mike808 just one box?
Have you even got tracking on it? No one’s mentioned even getting tracking yet in this thread, maybe they left that part out for the penne
@mike808
spaghettini?
@mike808 your Penne arrived? My Spaghettini hasn’t even escaped Texas yet!
@tinamarie1974 @kevinrs @Cerridwyn @OnionSoup
It was the spaghettini. I posted it for all of the Pasta Pirates scanning porches for booty.
@mike808 I’m beginning to think they aren’t sending tracking for the penne, or it’s going to be shipped late. Delivery was estimated June 1-8, and the way shipping is now, if it hasn’t shipped yet, more likely to be second half of June
@kevinrs Estimated delivery is now June 15th-19th.
Penne shipped to my dad today. Can’t wait to hear how much he gets.
lol wooo, 20lbs being shipped to co worker. I hope they’re excitedly disappointed. Haven’t said anything yet so should be interesting. Also hoping they don’t drop any off at my house when they realize that 20lbs is a lot of F-ing pasta.
/giphy hospitable-lone-spy
@Outer78 Looks like it’s 10lbs an order, so unless you sent 2 orders to your co-worker, it will only be 10lbs. Still a lot of pasta.
@irenegade @Outer78 That’s not true. Everyone gets a different amount, based on the drop one reports it looks like the range is 10-100 pounds per order.
@irenegade Pitney bowes tracking states 22lbs 8oz. So they are getting 22lbs of something lol This is 1 order and as stated, it’s a random amount that everyone is getting, it seems.
@Outer78 I guess you’re lucky! mine says 10lbs
@Outer78 @slowbie Wow! up to 100lbs!
@irenegade lol I sure am cause it’s not coming to me, so it’s not my problem
@Outer78 Where on tracking does it say the weight? Mine only says the location
@tabbysandhuskys https://pitneybowes.shipment.co/track
@Outer78 @tabbysandhuskys you can’t trust that number.
My Spagho said 22lbs but I got 40lbs of pasta. I think if they have multiple boxes they only weigh one.
So it could be what they say, or it could be more.
@OnionSoup correct, multiple boxes need multiple tracking numbers and pastadrop is only providing us with 1. So unless you have informed delivery from USPS, you won’t know how many packages are actually going to show up.
Thank goodness this tracking number is showing a more manageable 22lbs. Whew!!
@tinamarie1974
Where are you seeing the weight in the tracking info? I see the log of where it is, and on the USPS tracking site, no weight.
@tinamarie1974 ahhh good… Started sending some out huh. Probably everyone will have shipping orders within three or four days… So… three weeks in shipping plus less than a week before order ships … I should definitely have the Penne by July 4th. What could be more American than Italian food?
@mike808 on the Pitney Bowes website after you look up the tracking, there is a little locator pin that gives more info.
@OnionSoup nothing! In my household (and my parents) we have Italian food at every holiday, and the bonus of Italian cookies at Christmas! It would be weird if we didn’t
@mike808, @RiotDemon is correct. Use this website and as she said click on the locator pin and scroll all the way down.
https://pitneybowes.shipment.co/track
@RiotDemon I don’t see any locator pin on my phone and it doesn’t appear even in “desktop mode”.
The tracking number links me to the usps website and there is no weight info.
Why or how would I know to go to the Prodigious Bowels movement site?
@mike808 @RiotDemon oooh… Mine has a tracking number now. No weight yet though. Definitely should arrive before end of June though I suspect.
Mike, the pin is easy to miss, I see it on my phone on pb’s website. It looks like a “location icon” on an Android phone.
Weight doesn’t show up immediately though… Mine is currently weightless.
Only one tracking number so not a megadrop. I suspect they only did those 100lb drops for the first week to get some buzz. I imagine most of us will be in the 10-40lb range from here on out.
Now I have weight. That didn’t take long… Just went back to verify everything.
It’s 22lbs again. So another 20lb drop of pasta with 2lbs of air and cardboard.
I’m content with 20lbs… As long as I don’t get the cursed 10lb box…
@mike808 geez. So sorry I didn’t link it for you. Tinamarie did above, but here is the link again so you don’t have to look.
https://pitneybowes.shipment.co/track
@RiotDemon I tried with the tracking number pasting into the PB link. Unfortunately, that’s not where the tracking link takes you from the website details (it goes to the USPS site).
Not a big deal, but it is still tribal lore passed around by mehmbers, not a user error. Might want to keep that link handy for the other drop topics.
/image drop top
@mike808 it goes to the USPS website because they are the final shipper.
@mike808 @RiotDemon one thing to take into account is that the weight on PB website isn’t accurate.
It told me 20lbs but I got two boxes each 20lbs.
I think the weight on the PB website only tells you the weight of one box. So if it says 20lbs all you can infer from that is that one box in your order is 20lbs. You don’t know if you only got one box, or more.
@mike808 @OnionSoup @RiotDemon
You have a valid point, but since I have seen nothing besides the exact same box that appears to perfectly fit 20#, if you have anything less than 20#, it is pretty safe to say you are only getting that.
Also, more of a beat-the-dead-horse insult, if they only have one size box, it is no wonder everyone with less than 20# seems to be reporting broken and opened bags. Texas air doesn’t help a fragile 10# weight being beat the hell out of.
@mike808 @OnionSoup @RiotDemon This is correct, if you get more than 20 lbs. it comes in multiple boxes. The e-mail from PastaDrop only includes 1 tracking number. However, if you use (Un)Informed Delivery from the USPS, it’ll show you if you have more on the way from MEDIOCRE COMPANY. So I go to Informed Delivery, look for the tracking numbers from PastaDrop, then plug them into the Pitney Bowes site to see the total.
40lbs of penne just arrived at my door. The PB tracking only said 22lbs - nothing about a second box.
I’m cracking up here.
Guess I know what’s for dinner tonight.
@Ebis Please! We need the nood pics!
@tabbysandhuskys How do I post a picture here? I am not smart enough…
@Ebis
press on the icon to the right of the 101 thing to upload an image 
@tabbysandhuskys
@Ebis if you get more than 20 lbs. it comes in multiple boxes. The e-mail from PastaDrop only includes 1 tracking number. However, if you use (Un)Informed Delivery from the USPS, it’ll show you if you have more on the way from MEDIOCRE COMPANY. So I go to Informed Delivery, look for the tracking numbers from PastaDrop, then plug them into the Pitney Bowes site to see the total.
My friend was flummoxed and slightly annoyed upon receiving 20 pounds of Penne this afternoon.
After explaining it to him, he found it amusing. He gave me one of the 10 pound bags.
20 lbs noods just got delivered to my husband, but the box looked like it was attacked by velociraptors and the packing slip was half missing, including my note to him. Kinda ruined the fun.
Well my son received 40 lbs of pasta yesterday. He thinks I’m nuts for doing this.
All in all, fifty cents a lb. for pasta is a good deal. For the people upset by only receiving 10 lbs… what did you expect? You were warned. The amount is random.
II’d have been ok with 10 lbs. I did it for the fun of it. And for the $10 off coupon codes for the other sites. I’ve used 2 of them so far.
Heck, I’m not sure what my son is going to do with 40 lbs. of pasta.
@Trinityscrew I think part of the problem is many of the 10 lb packages of pasta (like mine) came smashed or split open, rendering them virtually useless. So yeah, did I expect to get 40, 50, 100 lbs of pasta? No. Did I expect to get something usable and worth the $20+ shipping I spent to have it sent? Absolutely. Of course the coupons for the other sites were what ultimately got me to push the buy button, but all in all, I would consider this to be a poorly executed fun idea.
@drewcroa Contact them. If your pasta was all smashed/broken/useless then send them some pictures. Or post them here. They may refund your money or give you coupons for future purchases.
@Trinityscrew my wife opened il the box and promptly dumped into another container. She doesn’t do much internet shopping and didn’t think twice about it.
I dropped myself… and it just arrived… and when I checked my video doorbell footage I laughed so hard that I scared my cats.
@steelopus
@steelopus
This poor USPS driver had to make a bunch of trips.
https://video.nest.com/clip/bd7bff07dfde4f14a64daa5534d8e7dc.mp4
@steelopus That is the fanciest dressed mail carrier I have ever seen! Ours are in the blue shirts, comfy shoes and their blue shorts. Seriously, even polished shoes!
Thanks for the penne PastaDrop @sammydog01. The final tally for your drop was 100 pounds! I’ll be delivering it to the nursing home on Friday.
Thank you, Pasta Drop! My mom was… Well, let’s say “astounded”, lol. I was like, woot! The dog was like, meh. But overall it was awesome.
MEALS! DEALS! EELS! AWESOME!
So USPS says it was delivered at about noon yesterday to in-laws house. “Left on porch”, we have talked to them and not a word about it. We don’t know what is going on. It is killing us not to ask. They use garage and maybe don’t know a delivery is sitting at door. Or maybe in mailbox for neighborhood thing and just listed weird.
/giphy where did it go
Well after some troubles and a mail carrier that can’t figure out street name or addresses. It was found that it was delivered elsewhere. The local fire department got the delivery and figure out today where to bring it. Fire chief came in his bright truck!
Then we got a frantic call from them asking if they were getting 5 giant boxes of pasta!
After great amount of laughter and confusion it is a great time to be had. They gave a 10lb box to the fire chief to take back (it was all he would take) and a couple neighbors will get some and they say we have to take some. They will find good places for some of the other to go and keep a bag or two for themselves.
Thank you very much for the fun times!
I was fortunate enough to come out of the game ahead again and received 40lbs of penne today. Going to probably ask my neighbors if they would like some, pastas been a bit of slim pickings here for a while.
20lb delivered today. I am happy with the purchase. Already used my code for Meh on the MacBook Air cover that my wife wants for her birthday anyway. Double Score
Twenty pounds here. My wife was confused and annoyed.
Well… might need Usps complaint thread. Usps says delivered yesterday at noon. They were at the house and have checked neighbors houses. No packages delivered.
Have emailed support to see if I can find what needed to submit lost mail on Usps site.
Very sad
I got 20 pounds of penne. Had some for dinner.
Haha! Penne finally arrived to a friend in FL. She got 20lbs of pasta and thinks it’s hilarious. My job here is done
My sister got 20 pounds, and thought it was funny.
She was sightly less amused by the next 60#.
Anyone else still waiting?? My gift appears to be stuck in Indiana facility since June 2nd with zero updates? I mean I know this is the most cut rate shipping possible, but two weeks with no movement?
I assume at some point my sister is getting like 500lbs of pasta, but they really don’t want to deliver it.
@dodohead partially waiting… Yes. I ordered the first two drops for my wife. I’ve received both pastas but there is still one box of pasta stuck with Pitney Bowes. I don’t know if it’s the Penne or the Spaghettini…
There are two lotteries at play here. One the pasta lottery… How much will you get? And two… The Putney Bowes lottery… When will you get it?
@dodohead Still waiting here too. Ordered 5/18. Delivered to Greenwood, IN 6/2 and no movement since. I’m a little concerned now since 2 other Mediocre purchases were delivered to the same warehouse on 6/6 and then show arrived there on 6/17. Does that mean they arrived on the shipping dock and weren’t checked in to the facility by anyone for 11 days? Has our pasta not even been checked in for 15 days? We’re definitely losers in the Pitney Bowes lottery. Hopefully big winners in the pasta lottery. I’d bet one greenback that the PB staff is just sick of hefting 20lb boxes that plainly say they’re loaded with noodles.
Why has it not shipped?
I am sorry you are closing. The site was hysterical and the pasta was good. Would have been a regular customer both for myself and others. Best to all of you!
Are there any Mediocre sites where we still can get the pasta? Best!
How the fuck are people already getting their ziti when my penne hasn’t even shipped?
Still processing over here. Not sure what’s worse, processing or being stuck in the Pitney Bowes network.
Got my 20 lbs of penne on Saturday, just on time for Father’s Day! It was fabulous!!
After receiving 20 pounds of penne on Saturday, my mother just got another 80 pounds today. She is not pleased with me.
80 pounds just delivered to very confused in-laws.
Tracking number only showed up yesterday.
Just got a box. feels like 20 lbs, haven’t opened it yet
/image pastadrop
i miss the days they rang the bell when they left a delivery, but i heard the thump of the box
i actually feel sorry for the poor post office peeps
Noods finally arrived. My folks were puzzled. 40# is going to last a while.
(If I had known that these were actually certified Kosher (KF), I would have sent off an order to some one else too.)
I was wrong. They got more boxes.
(And the randoms haven’t even arrived yet! Oy!)
My parents received five boxes. 860 servings of penne pasta.
That is hilarious
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 20th - Friday, July 24th
I think I got an order to go through? Can’t see anything about it but I see an order in my orders page.
/giphy distracting-beaming-muffin
And confirmation email received. Yay noods!
I try to send to a friend’s address, Nothing but same errors as people above. I order to myself, with plans to give to another, and order Instantly goes through.
Hoping sending to myself is still valid for voucher codes.
IF not, horrible experience.
@liammc you get one set of coupons.
Any coupons that come in the box cannot be used by the same account that purchased the order.
@liammc Same for me. Guess I’ll have to hand deliver when it arrives to me. Or keep it if I’m hungry in the moment.
/giphy bonds-barry-hader
@RiotDemon Hey thank you for clarifying.
Guess that was the plan with the server errors, Get pasta and a free screwing out of vouchers.
Going to try and cancel.
If not, CC company here I come .lol
@liammc they aren’t trying to scam you.
You can easily cancel from your order page.
@RiotDemon
Oh it’s like the whole are you human from the now irk
Yes I can cancel, But the funds are now immediately on hold for days.
@liammc unfortunately websites break sometimes.
@RiotDemon
I guess. Should have invested more of the Amazon buy out money
Still got it all sorted out.
Also was too angry had low blood sugar…lol
@liammc
As someone who has been in banking for 27 years, 10 of those in the credit card industry, I have grown to dislike debit cards and favor credit cards for this reason.
It is my opinion that you should put all purchases on a credit card instead of a debit card for dispute resolution at the minimum. There are other reasons too but that should be reason enough.
If you are so close to your credit limit on your credit card that a $20 authorization is going to hurt your ability to make another purchase, you might have other problems. Your FICO score is partly calculated based upon your balance in relation to your credit limits. If you’re too close, you’re considered over extended and you lose FICO points.
In worst case scenario, you can contact your bank to have an authorization removed if you have proof that the order has been canceled. I used to do that for people when I first started in the industry back in 1990 so they probably still do that today. Also, many banks allow you to go over your credit limit by a certain percentage – depending on your risk assessment. Authorizations that were just holding credit but never charged do not appear as part of your balance so wouldn’t be held against you for credit limit overage fees – as long as the charge is never posted.
@liammc glad you got it figured out.
@cengland0
814 credit score. It’s stuck.
20$ won’t hurt me, I’m just a cheap asshole like most Americans. My main wasn’t anything other than ordering for the vouchers.
As I said, Order cancelled.
Ordered again after having a snickers bits size for blood surgar.
All is good.
@liammc @RiotDemon
Do coupons go to your email or are they shipped in the box?
@liammc @RiotDemon @Star2236 the code “pastadrop” works for the buyer on sites other than pastadrop. It is a one-time thank you for participating. A $5 code for pastadrop is inside the package and works for the receiver, valid on their first use of pastadrop only.
/giphy gainful-dastardly-cover
I have a coupon code that can be used once and it has to be used by 100 people a week. I would like to know when do the drops change? Monday at Midnight or Sunday at 1pm I have been late to the party two weeks in row.
@dino2269 /giphy shame-shame-shame
You need to do some penne-nce now
Penne is one of my favorite noods.
@dino2269 Monday at 11am eastern.
@RiotDemon Thank You!
/giphy functional-murky-wilderness
/giphy patient-wheat-hill
I was confused and just left the shipping address as my address thinking maybe it would prompt for where I wanted to actually send it. I know, I know… Probably dumb, but usually shipping address is used to verify the credit card transaction.
@RascalMJ Wouldn’t that be “Billing Address” that is used to validate the transaction?
@RascalMJ there’s a checkbox after your shipping address that says “billing address is the same as shipping address” if you uncheck it, then you can change the shipping address.
You can cancel your order and redo it it hasn’t been that long.
@RascalMJ ignoring sellouts, you have an hour to cancel and put in a different order
@lichme … Haha, you may be right. Like I said I blew it!!! Ha.
Luckily I was thinking of sending it to my friend\neighbor anyway so I’ll likely just let it ride and drop it off next door once it arrives. Ha
Does anyone know how much pasta is dropped? Sending from NJ to FL. Hoping it’s enough to share between 3 familys!!
@barbgreenland $20 worth
@caffeineguy good to know
@barbgreenland Knowing the shipping companies these days, all of it will be dropped. At least twice.
My order number is:
/giphy holy-unstructured-ogre
@rjaiswal I was not expecting that…
Thought I got an error but went through with that one word from that one email. Order page shows price but email shows (discount) just a heads up for folks wondering if it worked for them.
Can’t wait to use those VMP codes on the other sites as well!
(Edited by a mod)
/giphy shame shame shame
@thewynner it’s supposed to be a secret.
@thewynner also, the other coupons aren’t vmp specific.
@RiotDemon thought I was clever but you are a better wordsmith. Just wanted to provide some clarity in these confusing times for folks
/giphy wondrous-disgusted-frame
Color me pasta.
@jrbw3 I fucking hate this trend.
@jrbw3 i’m going to have nightmares tonight about that giphy
@stolicat @riotdemon it is unarguably horrifying.
@jrbw3 That cupcake is screaming out in terror.
I can buy pasta at the store for about $1 a pound. I dont see how this even makes sense. No sauces/other items included to make a nice pasta dinner? No sale.
@synapses11 and what if the amount of pasta dropped was greater than 20 pounds?
@Ignorant @synapses11 what if it’s less than 2 ounces of pasta?
@snapster @synapses11
/giphy house wins
@synapses11 You do realize most of the people buying this are sending it as a gag, right? It’s not supposed to make economic sense, or really any kind of sense. The only benefit right now is making your $20 back in the $50 worth of coupon codes.
Sending this to my mom so she can cook me pasta.
In for all the pasta
I don’t know how I’m going to handle the suspense.
/giphy decisive-crude-sandman
I loathe penne from a regrettable overdose (lunch and dinner, every day) on a trip to Switzerland but I know another pastaphile who will benefit!
Ah yes, the penne rigate!
/giphy enticing-graphic-wafer
@Charcoalwolfman
that’s awesome
POPSOCKETS! ROAD ROCKETS! SONNY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
/giphy vague-adaptable-map
/giphy fumbling-unclear-collar
Sigh… in for a penne…
I guess the joke is on the local food bank!
/giphy near-velvet-effect
Penne is one of my favorite noods.
Yeah, I figured what ever we won’t be able to eat will get donated somewhere.
The spaghettini I ordered hasn’t even shipped yet. Why would I buy more pasta when I’m not even sure how much my last order is gonna get? Maybe sell an appropriate amount and become a “pasta of the week” club…
@aardWolf You should know better. That’s the whole point. Meh-logic.
MorningSave still has 20-pound shipments of various pasta shapes for $34 listed (although they’re sold out and have been for weeks). It wouldn’t be like Meh to sell half that on PastaDrop for $20, and given the MS packages are two 10-pound packages, I’m leaning toward these being 20-pound deliveries, too.
I’m probably completely wrong.
@djwitzel I think that’s exactly the assumption everyone is making. Is disappointment on the horizon?
/giphy suspense is terrible
@cblack @djwitzel
I think it is they have X lbs of pasta, and Y people sent noods. So each recipient gets X/Y amount of pasta, whatever that is. The endgame is for Mercatalyst to have zero pasta in its warehouse.
Still waiting for last week’s drop to parachute in… Not going to order until it shows up.
@bluevulpine ditto
At least it’s the good penne [Penne rigate vs penne lisce]
http://thisismold.com/process/manufacture/smooth-vs-ridged-penne-a-covid-19-pasta-drama#.XsWWq1MpCdM
Penne is one of my favorite noods.
@j2 indeed. Only fools eat it without the ribs.
Since the webiste won’t let me send noods to anyone else as advertised, I’ve ordered me some of these Schrödinger’s Noods and I’ll have to reship these fuckers myself. At least VMP is saving me from paying twice to ship them. I feel sorry for anyone that doesn’t have VMP or Mehmbership.
/giphy rhetorical-resplendent-orangutan
Okay, I’m increasingly worried that you’re going to spam the crap outta the church whose food pantry I dropped these to.
Tell me that’s not going to happen.
Hey it’s nice that this one isn’t selling out! Guess they had more penne laying around
Ah yes, the penne rigate!
/giphy monstrous-late-quail
@paulcarlucci appropriate giphy
Trying to stay positive, ordered the penne (on 5/18!) and linguini, neither has shipped. Are they communicating with anyone? All I’ve seen is to be patient due to high order volume. Maybe they need to hit the pause button and play catch up? I want to love this so much but getting frustrated!
@rbreier433 They have just started shipping the Penne Regate.
However, both the penne and the linguini show an estimated delivery date from June15th - June19th, so there’s no need to worry.
@Barney Thanks! That makes me feel better!!
@Barney @rbreier433 my penne order still shows estimated delivery June 1-8, but it just shipped today. I’ve got meh orders from May 15, that shipped May 18, and still show no sign they have left Texas.
So I’m figuring another 2-3+ weeks to find out how much penne was sent?
@kevinrs @rbreier433 If you scroll up to the top of this sales page, you will see that they did a ninja edit on the estimated delivery date. Yep, they do that sometimes. So in their minds, with the new June 15-19 delivery dates, they feel that they will be right on time or with luck, maybe even early.
@Barney @rbreier433 but my order status us still showing the original date range. But anyway, the last meh order I received took about a week total, from April 29 order to May 6 delivery. I ordered multiple items from the mehrathon May 15, and more since, but nothing’s been delivered, some have still not been scanned outside Texas. The PB website is warning of delays 10 or more days. If a week was normal, it looks like all my orders are headed for that week + 10 days + more. I’m sure most will eventually arrive, but in my experience, the longer in transit, the more damage to packaging, and multiple meh orders have been barely in a half open, half crushed box on arrival already. I don’t know if pasta can survive that.
@kevinrs @rbreier433 If it will make you feel any better, the 20#'s of pasta comes in a pretty sturdy large box, (mine had taken a bit of a beating). Inside were two boxes, containing 10#'s each of pasta. The pasta was pretty well padded in bubble wrap and nothing was broken.
Good luck with your order.
@kevinrs @rbreier433 Um… I’m talking about the Spaghettini order that I got. I don’t know anything else about the others. However, if they can get that spindly spaghetti pasta unbroken to me, I have high hopes for the other pastas.
@Barney @kevinrs Simply knowing I’m not alone in this makes me feel better. Truly. Thank you!!
still processing…
We’re in business! Got the notification that it shipped!
/giphy welcoming-dysfunctional-stitch
@slowbie can you show us on this doll where they touched you?
Shipped to my friend. She’s getting 20lbs of penne NOODS
Where did you guys find coupon codes for sister sites? My pasta shipped and I haven’t seen an email with codes. Appreciate the help!
@RocketMan I got mine within an hour of ordering. In any case, the code is pastadrop and works once per site at all the sister sites
Just received 20 LBS of Penne Rigate pasta. The postal person appeared to be distressed and he said that he had to make multiple drops today. Carry to the door and return to vehicle.
Anyway, the question at hand is;
Is this product Kosher?
I’ve read the ingredients list and there is nothing to preclude it from certification. (but to be served in our home, it needs a Rabbinical Oversight which a LOT of the makers of Pasta already maintain.
We’ve asked and are hoping to hear back before November Freeze. Until then, Penne is in the box and will not be freed from containment.
@unclespammy I don’t know, but curious: when you go to Italian restaurants are they usually Kosher?
The brand they’re dropping don’t very often sell to home consumers, they usually sell to restaurants. Performance Foodservices is one of the biggest suppliers to Italian restaurants.
You might want to ask them directly if you don’t get an answer from meh. If usually restaurant pasta is kosher you’re probably in luck. If restaurant pasta isn’t normally kosher, this probably won’t be either.
@OnionSoup Restaurant pasta (and other food, for that matter) generally isn’t kosher (except, obviously, in kosher restaurants) because it’s being prepared in a non-kosher environment/kitchen/etc. with non-kosher equipment, even if the raw ingredients are.
@unclespammy The Penne I received appears to have a mark on it that would seem to say it is kosher:
20 pounds showed up for my sister
Her reaction was worth it.
@shinino Ha, I’m dropping my sister too! Can’t wait for her reaction tomorrow!
@shinino @tabbysandhuskys I’m waiting to see if next week is Macaroni. Dropping on my mum if they do if the stars align and it’s cavatappi I’m dropping myself… Lol… Not that I need more pasta
My sister got 20lbs. It was hilarious. $1/lb isn’t a horrendous price for pasta either. The funniest thing is the receipt lists the quantity using the inflated “servings” count on the back of the bag. 160 servings of pasta. I can only imagine people’s reaction to seeing 800 servings listed on the receipt.
@jandrese “Penne for your thoughts” Love it!
My Italian friend just got her 20 lbs. drop of pasta…since it was a surprise, I had hoped for a bit more pounds-wise for a bigger laugh, but $1 a pound, is not too bad. Hope my next order has more so I can donate it to a nearby soup kitchen. They really need it right now.
$20 for 10 lbs of generic pasta is a rip off.
@Dougaa I would say the same, except for the coupons for their other sites included with the purchase. I have redeemed more than $20 worth of those on a couple other purchases and feel that 10 lbs. of free pasta is okay.
@Dougaa @Skorpeyon Oh man, now I gotta buy more crap. As I always tell my kids:
“That’s how they get you!”
Ah well, at least it was fun to see the disbelief on my wife’s face when she saw how big the box was and how much pasta was inside. We’ll be trying to pawn off one of the bags to a friend hopefully coming by to deliver some Trader Joe’s Ube Mochi Pancake & Waffle Mix.
sounds like a social interaction you need to have with your friend
@Dougaa @notyoutoo Yeah, we’re moving soon so there have been a few things popping up here and there that were worthwhile to get, one was 50% off with the $10 coupon from buying the pasta drop for example, and they give you $50 worth of coupons, $10 for each of their sister sites. It wasn’t hard to use them up since we had things we actually needed, lol.
@Dougaa I got 40.
My daughter and her husband are having a much-needed laugh over the 20 pounds of pasta they received this afternoon. Fortunately, they have storage space.
Everyone slurping down the penne and we still havent received the spaghettini here. PB held it up in Texas and just left the other day. My week one is set to arrive on Tuesday the same day my sister receives week two. (Penne) Skipped over week 3 but ordered week 4 (ziti) for my other sister. I have a bad feeling about the shape my box will arrive in next week after hearing how many others have arrived beaten up with the bags torn open. Kicking around in the Texas facility for 2 weeks, I’m sure my noods have seen some things
@tjg5181 it sounds if you just get 10lbs the bags get beat up. Anything 20lbs or above is double boxed and with air bags so is really well protected.
10lb folk are double screwed… Pricey pasta and it’s smashed. Anything above that is golden. Even Pitney Bowes can’t harm it.
Holy mother of meatballs. I just checked my shipping and I can’t see each boxes weight but it is 4 boxes of penne. I dropped a total of 8 drops so far. 2 to sis, 2 to me, 1 to each of 2 brothers, 1 to mom, and 1 to the 8 year old niece. If we all get 80lb drops, I’m gonna laugh so hard.
The penne pasta drop box looks like it was drop SEVERAL TIMES it had 80 servings I am not sure it weighed 20 lbs But crock pot cooking it and packaged them for a year of food good buy
@bzgirlca if it’s one bag it was 10lbs.
The usual rule of 4 people per pound of pasta isn’t actually the recommended serving size apparently.
Recommended serving size is 8 people per lb of pasta, which is how they’re calculating it.
So, it says 80 servings, but in reality that’s only 40 portions. If you’re a family of 4 that bag will only last you 10 meals on average.
@OnionSoup Thank you! We had CrockPot Penne Pasta Last Night Totally Awesome. Two Jars of Sauce. 2 Bell Peppers. 1/2 Onion. 1/2 Zucchini 1 lb Spicy Italian Sausage … Sautéed Add Italian seasons, Tomatoes , sage . Two cups Pasta and everything else in Crock. Set high 4 hours . Add Cheese as cheese as you want! YUMMMMM!
PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!
My pasta drop arrived two 20 lb boxes each containing two 10lb bags so yeah lots of pasta
Was able to check tracking. 10 lbs stuck in atlanta. At least this was free using the coupon. Don’t think I’ll be buying another.
How do y’all find the shipping weight based off the tracking number?
@SLepe
https://pitneybowes.shipment.co/track/
Enter your tracking number and then click on “View Tracking page” or look for the locator pin and click on it. That will show you the shipping weight.
@SLepe BTW, it will only show the tracking/weight for your one box. Could be that you will be receiving more than one box. To find that out, you need to go USPS Informed Delivery to get all of your mediocre.com tracking numbers (if there are more).
@Barney Wow, thanks for sharing this info. I just found out I had 4 packages sent out 17 days ago. I still haven’t received them and it looks like they may not all be together.
@bovin1jg Congrats on the 80 pounds of penne. I have some linguine that seems to be traveling the US. Maybe it’s wondering around with your penne.
Got my penne ! Let’s see, it made the 1700+ mile trip from Grapevine, TX to my Northern California home in about 4 days (shipped on 6/2, received on 6/6). Meanwhile, the penne I dropped on an unsuspecting friend who lives in Lewisville, TX was shipped on 5/30 and has yet to arrive… Grapevine, TX is less than 13 miles from Lewisville, TX…
@chaosdreamer That’s because it needs to take a vacation to Greenwood, Indiana (near Indy), or even perhaps in Commerce, CA for a few days. Lots of options for Pitney Bowes package vacations during this pandemic.
Pasta I sent to my brother in MS has been sitting in Greenwood, IN since June 3. Perhaps there are pasta fans in IN and it’s been pastanapped?
@bigjim_ I suspect there’s a lot of pasta sitting in Greenwood since June 3. Hopefully it goes somewhere eventually.
@bigjim_ More likely pastaponed.
40lbs of Penne arrived today, and not via the tracking number I expected so there is at least one other package out there on the way. Going to have to find places to donate it or hand a bunch off to friends/family!
This turned out great! Lots of laughs, lots of noods, and made the day of some of my favorite people!
My wife’s Penne finally arrived… And of course it had to arrive the one day my wife isn’t home. (Although counting boxes coming from Mediocre on Informed Delivery and what I’ve actually ordered I believe there is another box of Penne yet to come that was separated from it’s brethren).
My wife was a little annoyed but mildy amused with 40lbs of Spaghettini… Not sure how she will react when she gets home at midnight tonight and finds 80lbs of Penne.
It’ll be even funnier if another box arrives tomorrow as I suspect it eill.
Any suggestions on how to arrange the pasta for her return?
I brought my large googly eyes home from work yesterday to place on the stack of boxes to make a box man… But the boxes are too busy it doesn’t look good.
Another idea is to open all the boxes and the inner boxes (assuming packed same as spaghettini) and use the boxes to make a wall blocking her entrance into the living room.
Poor mailman. We have a really steep driveway and he had to make two trips up carrying pasta. What do mailmen think of Penne as a tip?
@OnionSoup
Pasta blocking her way getting in would be funny, especially at midnight in the dark. You can make her a pasta necklace and bracelet too.
@OnionSoup Pasta fort
My brother just 100 lbs of Penne… I don’t think he is happy, but definitely fun. And going to be a lot of pasta donated to a kitchen in NYC…
I love you @snapster, this was a grand experiment.
Mom got 10# of baby spaghetti, she gave a package to my uncle, both were happy. My brother got 20# and was pretty excited, he and his family will probably eat it all. We got ours today, 5x 20# boxes! Mailman was pretty confused, but he’s a great mailman, so he got a 10# package of penne! There’s pasta dropping to more friends, and an essential worker neighbor with 4 kids! What a great way to bring smiles to folks! Thanks!
Just received 20 lb of penne… hot on the heels of my husband complaining that I cook too much pasta! Hahaha #pastakarma
Package arrived the other day but someone burgled it in the hallway of my targets building. They were unable to abscond with all of it and half was left in the mangled box. Definitely worth it!
Arrived today - 20 lbs. of Roma brand durum semolina linguine in two 10 lbs. cellophane packages packed individually in separate boxes and shipped in one box holding all that. I was going to give some to my next door neighbor but how do I give 10 lbs. at a time?
@gs4 hand them a 10lb bag?
@RiotDemon It’s a big bag. I don’t know if their 3-year old can eat that much.
I just got two more 20 lbs boxes = 60 lbs total of linguine. Is it random amounts?
My pasta has been in Greenwood, Indiana for 10 days. Is that normal? Some of these arrival posts give me hope. Just been a little mystifying.
@stivman Have you tried tracking it on the USPS site? Pitney Bowes shows the same for me (in Indiana for 10 days), but USPS shows that it has been moving along the past few days.
@stivman My shipment sat in GA for 10 days. I can’t say it’s normal, but it seems to be common?
well mine is still stuck in Texas,. or so the usps tracking says! zero pastadrop for $20!
Anyone else have issues with this order?? Order was placed on 5/18…still says “processing” a month later! I ordered another PD at the same time and that one arrived last week. Sent an e-mail to support, but has not been responded to. Thoughts??
@Hskrjer99 I placed two orders, both still show processing. One has actually been delivered.
I ordered on 5/18 and it’s been stuck in Indiana since June 3. Also, I don’t believe I ever got my $50 coupons for the meh universe.
@stevef7667 use code “pastadrop” on the other sites. Email was probably filtered to spam.
@Ignorant @stevef7667 speaking of spam?
SPAMDROP! It’s cheap, I bet Mercatalyst could buy it in bulk even cheaper.
What’s funnier than dumping a load of pasta on people?
Yes, Spam! @snapster @mediocrebot it’s the next million dollar idea! If you can plan it to be delivered on April 1st anonymously even better.
(Don’t know if recipients can donate spam to foodbanks or food kitchens though like is being done with extra pasta? Will foodbanks accept spam)
The box looked like it had been dropped off a building and then Hulk dropped an elbow on it
My friends said it was completely demolished. Not so much penne as piece-e.
My pasta was shipped on June 1, but I think it’s hitchhiking from Texas. I did get the codes for the other sites and have tried them, but everything I have ordered is having the same shipping issues.
Mine got lost on way from Pitney Bowes to USPS. Left the PB facility, never to be heard from again.
@RobertD Mine appears to be in the same situation, I’m guessing they must be stuck on the same wagon together being pulled by a methhead?
Same here, it seems like the state of Texas and Pitney are eating all our pasta before it can drop…
I think PB may just have a bucket brigade set up from Texas to wherever this stuff is headed, moving a box at a time. I may have it to my house in time for the fall pandemic.
I thought this was hilarious at first. Overall execution was poor. Taking a month to be delivered, then postal carrier didn’t leave it on the porch or deck of the victim so it ended up back at the post office. I couldn’t sign up for redelivery due to staffing issues, so I had to tell the victim they had to visit the post office. They got 20 pounds. I saw this pasta at cost co for 10.99 a bag last week. I could have bought it, walked the 60 miles and walked home before the pasta I ordered A MONTH AGO was delivered. May 18 - June 24. Weak Sauce to go along with the pasta. The exuberance is insubstantial.
I gots Mine
@Brasssong AND?!?!
/giphy okay-private-kettle
/giphy relieved-callous-genie
/giphy catastrophic-drowsy-van
/giphy bewildered-sinister-scrooge
/giphy cautious-addicted-field
Done and done.
Sending to my sister’s family. Very curious to see what comes! furrowed-tempered-shandy.
My spaghetti drop is still “processing” from last week. Any estimates on how long these drops take to ship out?
@revamp it’s always in the specs at the top:
@RiotDemon Thanks! I don’t know how I managed to miss that. I was just looking at my order confirmation and status. Appreciate the help!
@revamp anytime!
once we get the process ironed out these will start shipping same week as the drop but that first one is slower
How long do these take to ship?
@Bigbearballs Sometime between a week, and TBD
@Bigbearballs
@Bigbearballs @lichme it’s always in the specs at the top:
@lichme @RiotDemon thank you
/giphy nutritious-kissable-air
My sister is gonna think I’ve lost my mind (what’s left of it) but BiL will think this is a riot!
(Edit - giphy is being a PITA for me today.)
/giphy discouraged-turquoise-crook
I missed out last week, sending my son (at my own address) copious amounts of pasta.
/giphy tampered-serious-narwhal
@themutilator I’m not so sure the offer will apply to the same address as your account. I also missed last week’s Drop.
/giphy loose-uptight-furniture
That was amusing
/giphy violet-peevish-tendency
I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m in!
Now this is a pasta I can get behind. Noods away!
$20 worth of pasta…what was I thinking?
Sending pasta to PA as a joke… What could go wrong.
/giphy fluctuating-merry-frame
/giphy clownish-broad-trouble
Now. To wait.
/giphy negative-homegrown-chalk
I was thinking of being sensible and waiting to see what the first order was like and whether my neighbor and I could eat that much before ordering more - BUT - I see they both have the same delivery dates making me think there is going to a landslide of noods June 1-8 and everyone just loves penne rigate so …
/giphy descriptive-bowed-suggestion
Penne is one of my favorite noods.
that was not what I expected … giphy’s being pretty frisky today
@stolicat Is that a banana for scale?
/giphy shallow-obtainable-sulfur
/giphy unbeatable-gaunt-daisy
Any word on the country of origin?
@chienfou They’re imported from Italy!
WTH, why not?
/giphy pathetic-busted-level
/giphy temporary-faded-rabbit
Sent some to my brand new roommate. Forgot to change the ship to name the first time, so I had to cancel and order a second time. I still get coupons, right? I’m not here just for the coupons; I like pasta and sending stuff to friends too, but… I mean, look, you bribed me to support the casemates kickstarter, so obviously I’m a sucker for a good coupon code. But I did also end up buying wine that one time. It was bubbly.
/giphy slippery-gloating-ginger
@Oneroundrobb also, I forgot to uncheck billing address is same as shipping address. Is there gonna be an issue if the billing address has a different name than the credit card (but the correct address otherwise)?
@Oneroundrobb If there was, the charge would have been declined and the order wouldn’t have gone through. As for the coupon code: PASTADROP
/giphy careless-toxic-rain
did my drop but received no email with coupon codes yet.
@Brasssong check your spam and promotions folders.
Even if you don’t find the email, use code pastadrop on the other sites to save $10 each site, one time.
In for 1
/giphy exquisite-faceted-umbrella
/giphy movable-cardiac-division
/giphy hairy-manageable-elk
Just sent some noods to a friend. I’ve always wanted to do that.
/giphy tacky-greedy-cookie
I need to know how much I sent my sister. I want to tell her the net carbs and how many days she needs to spread the pasta out over just to be a jackass…
/giphy unlikely-random-celery
/giphy unlikely-disadvantaged-celery
Trying again
@snapster So, what if I had a major brain spark and realized I should have ordered this to be sent to our local Food Bank instead of to my home. Since they haven’t shipped yet, can we change the delivery address?
Sent noods to my daughter. Can’t wait to see her reaction.
/giphy abandoned-disrespectful-elephant
/giphy unyielding-combative-jelly
/giphy pervasive-thorny-map
Does anyone think this offers a clue?
Just thinking out loud…
@stiege squints Pinecone linguine?
I’m sending noods to my hubby.
/giphy liable-ostensible-coast
/giphy beneficent-slippery-boot
Im just afraid these will come in bulk and not individual packages. If they do, I dont want to waste what we cannot eat. Does anyone know if they are individually packaged?
@debs3hrtscmj They have to wait until they earn the money for this week to pay for last week so they can ship… So none of us have received last week’s yet. #secretpyramidscheme
@debs3hrtscmj It’s pasta. If it’s a bulk package/bag just close it. Do you eat an entire bag of cereal at a time?
@caffeineguy @debs3hrtscmj I’m thinking OP means they can’t donate an opened package of pasta.
label generated, awaiting shipping partner, from Mediocre Corp…
PASTA INCOMING
/giphy incoming
I’m not buying large amounts of the same pasta. Start mixing styles up.
@ELUNO I wouldn’t be surprised if the last week of pasta drop they do something like that.
A random pasta drop to clear out any stock they have left. That sounds like a very Meh thing to do.
Sent one to my boss. I wonder if I’ll have a job when it arrives…
/giphy kissable-misanthropic-oak
Probably one of the stupidest things I’ve done in a while.
/giphy enigmatic-torrential-seashore
@dijit27 I was wondering where this picture came from. It’s from the George Strait music video, The Seashores of Old Mexico, at 1:32.
Does the $50 coupon apply for the penne?
Ah yes, the penne rigate!
@huntd Do you get a $50 coupon like last week?
@huntd there is no $50 coupon. You get 5 $10 coupons. One for each site except pastadrop.
Still a terrible user experience on mobile.
Impossible to add a different ship-to address.
Sits on the “proccessing” animated bar for 30 minutes (left my phone and came back later) and it never completed or timed out.
Sigh. What a waste.
Concept: B+
Execution: F
When a site cannot complete the one simple function it was designed to do, deliver noods to a different ship-to, that’s a major problem with the site.
/giphy you had one job
@mike808 I didn’t have a problem either week.
I’ve noticed in general on all their sites it takes a few seconds longer recently to process a purchase… But I’ve not had any problems getting it to work…
… Unless I try buying an Irk.
The problem with this compared to meh is that I have all week to reconsider my decision not to buy something so useless
/giphy brackish-talented-badger
/giphy dead-dangerously-fruit
Mehbe this question has been asked and ignored already, but does everyone get the same amount of noods? Or do different people get different amounts? I guess that’s part of the secret process of the pastadrop. Hey, mediocrebot! Do you stick penne in your cornhole?
Penne is one of my favorite noods.
@mediocrebot Sounds like a yes to me… freak!
@warpedrotors I think different amounts but I don’t know.
@Ignorant That’s just ignorant.
@Ignorant @warpedrotors
if it’s like the spaghettini it’s different amounts – from 10 to 100 lbs!
@chienfou @Ignorant I got my shipping notification. It’s being sent USPS Parcel Select, which maxes out at 70lbs. My wife won’t be as annoyed with less than 100lbs, but it’ll have to do. I’m running out of wine storage space from casemates orders. Now I need pasta storage space.
How long does it take to ship freakin pasta?
@kurt7611 from the specs at the top of the page:
@kurt7611 @RiotDemon a long time… I hope it won’t be pasta their best before date.
Ugliest-Fittest-Point
Ah yes, the before and after Pastadrop photos!
@OnionSoup maybe a fun meme to flip these for PastaDrop advertising!
/bought
/image restorative-haphazard-rogue
/giphy restorative-haphazard-rogue
As of right now, penne is still available!
Just - today - May 30th - got a tracking number - only 1 - but it says it was picked up on the 27th.
Goddess @snapster, Pitney Bowes seriously sucks donkey pasta
@Cerridwyn just got my tracking number too! Sure took them long enough
@Cerridwyn @Unknownie I wonder which I will get first. Penne or Spaghettini. Penne hasn’t shipped yet, but Spaghettini hasn’t left first warehouse in Texas yet, so there’s a chance Penne gets a good current and bypasses the Spaghettini.
… Who am I kidding, it’ll sit in the post for a month too.
@Cerridwyn
I concur, The 1st of June here and still havent shipped mine.
@Cerridwyn @OnionSoup My penne is arriving tomorrow! The shipping didn’t update for several days. Maybe check again?
@OnionSoup @tabbysandhuskys
nice
Loving the dropper, whom sent to a food bank. Please let us all know if you were successful. You rock… Or at least roll
Only ten pounds of the spag shipped to myself, hopefully it will be more penne I shipped to a friend. Not sure I’d do this again.
@stiege Looks like my package of Penne weighs 10lbs. Still stuck in Texas.
Did anyone get over 20 lbs sent? My sister is getting 20 lbs… which is a lot of pasta, but I was hoping for more of a “shock and awe” level of pasta.
@jakeline There are reports in the spaghettini thread of 100 lb deliveries. There are also a few people saying they got more than one package but were only sent one tracking number, so it might be possible your sister will get more than 20lbs.
Both mine and my friend’s are 22 lbs 8 oz.
@aces219 Interesting! Mine says 21lb 14 oz.
Tracking on mine is 10 lbs 10 oz. So I’ve got a 10 lb bag of $2 a pound pasta on the way…
Not going to repeat it. Some of the 50-100 lb shipments should have been a little smaller, so the smallest could be bigger.
I can get any one of the 4 brands of pasta in the store cheaper, at this point it’s in stock, and the store brand is $0.78 for a pound.
The way the spaghettini posts are showing the condition of the packages are arriving in: penne may arrive as a box of penne chips.
@kevinrs I considered the additional coupons for the other sites as part of the bargain so it doesn’t bother me much.
@Cloudscout those coupons are first order only, and I’ve only found a use for 1 so far. So ordering a second time and risking another standard quality 10 lb box of pasta at super gourmet prices doesn’t seem smart.
Not that the first order has gotten even close to being delivered. Still shows texas.
@mediocrebot
IS THIS KOSHER?
PER the CRC:
10:01 AM · Aug 20, 2012
CRC LINK to TWITTER Response
Also on the CRC List of April-2020
Items That Do Not Require Hashgachah
For Year-Round Use
CRC April-2020 PDF
So, the question goes to the list of ingredients…
What’s in this stuff?
@unclespammy This is what @snapster said in the Spaghettini thread about it being kosher or not:
https://pastadrop.com/forum/topics/the-spaghettini#5eb9691126f37b13c0bbc31f
yea… that was $28 for maybe $10 worth of pasta. Not doing that again.
@Curtis25 $28? How was it $28? It wasn’t $20 for pasta and $5 for shipping?
Is shipping on a single item really up to $8 now? Better off doing the monthly $5 shipping… You can set your self a reminder the day, or two days before to cancel the shipping if you’re worried about a subscription fee. That way you get free shipping on anything on the sister sites too… For a whole month… Well… Not free shipping because you pay $5 for… But no extra shipping.
Chances are with the $5 shipping you’ll buy more because not having to pay shipping costs each time makes the items they sell better values.
@OnionSoup Yes its $8 I don’t want to play games with shipping subscriptions I just want pasta. And $25 for $10 worth of pasta still isn’t a good deal.
@Curtis25 understood. Yeah, I’d be annoyed if I paid $20+ and only got 10lbs too. No consolation to you, but sounds like the 10lb drops are pretty rare and most people got way more.
I’m lucky I got 40lbs first drop (which is great because enough to be amusing but not too much it becomes obnoxious)… Second drop PB website says is 20lb box (but doesn’t say if one or more boxes)… So getting at least 20 again, which isn’t a bad deal.
It’s fun some people get insane 100lb drops,.but really 10lb isn’t fair.
We…errr… My unsuspecting teenage daughter got about 1/2 the noods I expected. I told her she can’t send noods, but you know kids…
WARNING: NSFW!
Ordered almost two weeks ago, on it’s way to Pittsburgh, stuck in Indiana, and since when does Pitney Bowes handle freight?? Stop noodling around!
Oh boy, 10 lbs of overpriced, smashed penne, at least we have the coupon codes i guess.
@drewcroa same here
20 lbs of cold, hard pasta delivered to my noodie friend. Aww yiss.
Well, I’m feeling officially ripped off. Got my Penne Rigate drop yesterday. A single 10 pound bag. For $20 dollars. So two bucks a pound for some cheap-ass, bulk pasta that’s not very good.
I can get decent Penne all day long at Trader Joe’s for less than a buck a pound, so, yeah… Meh, you got me.
But fool me once…
I got 10 pounds of pasta for 20 bucks that took over 3 weeks to get here. Sorry, not impressed. Never again, I’ll go to WalMart and save money. Yea, real cool, haven’t found anything to use the coupons for on any of the cheap crap on other sites either. Just another gimmick site…
@nuchamp
To be fair I don’t think they ever pretended to be anything else.
@Ignorant @nuchamp
Right? I don’t get why people are getting so mad at a site that explicitly said they were sending a random amount of pasta. Not to mention that the clear intention of the site was that you send it to a friend and I can’t help but notice that easily 90% of the complaining posts are people who sent it to themselves.
@slowbie , yup you’re right, I ended up sending it to myself after trying to change the shipping address to my wife for 20 minutes. I knew she’d be the one to get it while I was at work and have a “WTF” moment. I had just hoped to get a usable bag of pasta.
@drewcroa “I wasn’t sending it to myself I was sending it to someone else who lives in my house and cooks food for me”
Still processing on both orders.
A pasta-loving co-worker was overjoyed to get 20 pounds of surprise pasta. This was fun!
Got 20 pounds of this stuff, which should last our apartment a few days at least. The boxes also arrived a lot less damaged than some of the ones that got posted, so I’m glad for that.
I only got 10 pounds officially making it a worse deal than just buying it from the grocery store at full retail in a more practical container.
@paulcarlucci You got 5 ten dollar coupon codes though, ya?
@GLaDOS nope, I received approximately zero coupon codes.
@GLaDOS @paulcarlucci on your first drop you get a $10 coupon code for each site (Meh, Side Deal, MorningSave, Casemates, and Mediocritee) the email probably got filtered to your spam.
Enter code “pastadrop” on each of the sites at checkout.
@GLaDOS @Ignorant oh hey, there it is. Thanks for pointing that out, that certainly changes the value proposition.
My mom got 20lbs of penne delivered two days ago but no note in the box so she had no idea who it was from. (Why they left my note out is beyond me?) Then today I’m sitting, messing around on my phone and she text me and said she got another 20lbs delivered today but still no note. I checked and it said I only had 22lbs being delivered so who knows how much pasta is coming or where it’s coming from.
/giphy hal 2001
I too got zonked and only got 10lbs
It was fun waiting a long time for it… not!
My sister got 20lbs today. That order and the one for my brother are both still showing as processing, so I never got tracking info…
@duodec oh good maybe mine is actually on the way and not processing.
@duodec @Ignorant Mine is still processing, too. I hate holding onto a joke for this long!
@duodec @Ignorant
you can dream
@ignorant @AnnaB @Cerridwyn
She got another box of 20 pounds today. My note was in both boxes so it was my order. No word from my brother, and the website still shows both as ‘processing’.
@AnnaB @duodec @Ignorant
@snapster - you are aware that pitney bowes has fucked up all your fun and our fun and you should investigate if they are in breach of contract
@snapster Still shows processing on both orders. I’m going to ask my brother if anything unusual showed up because he’s been known to forget to contact about things. But my sister’s order has been received already, and there’s no tracking info or any indication from Mediocre that it even shipped. Is that Pitney Bowes or a warehouse issue?
@duodec @snapster Mine is also still processing. I sent a message to customer service and hope to hear from them soon. I had hoped Mom would get this by her birthday coming up, but that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.
@AnnaB @Cerridwyn @Ignorant
Now all in. My sister had another 60 pounds show up 8 days after the second 20 pounds. And my brother had 100 pounds show up the day before.
Both were very impressed and somewhat annoyed
My sister is going to donate a good chunk of it; my brother is going to keep it because their church and school still do big dinners every couple of months and pasta is always popular.
I was bummed when the email about the current one being the last came in; by the time I checked, it was sold out.
They never got to having radiatore pasta; I’d have bought that in a snap!
Emails came in yesterday, and the website order info also finally updated.
@Cerridwyn @duodec @Ignorant All of a sudden a tracking number appeared, even though my order still shows as processing. Also, apparently Mom got it yesterday, on her actual birthday. Haven’t spoken with her yet, so I don’t know if she really did or how much pasta she received.
that would ruin all the fun, no?
20#'s. Already started trying to figure out who I can share with lol
I have no idea what’s going on. I received 40lbs of Spaghettini a week ago… 80lbs of Penne on Wednesday… And I’ve still got one 22lb box of something unknown from mediocre in a Pitney Bowes warehouse en route to me.
I don’t know if it’s a late box of Penne or a really late box of spagho… Or something else.
I have a 2lb box coming from Mediocre (I think my nuts weigh about 2lbs… So must be my nuts in the box… SideDeals had my nuts).
What’s in the box @randommehemployeewhodoesntreallyhavethisalias?
@OnionSoup
Still stuck in Greenwood Indiana, since June 9.
Ordered on May 18. Today is June 18. Still no pasta. No updates since June 6. Should I start the refund process?
Hmmm. Ordered a month ago and still processing and not even shipped yet. I’m beginning to think you’re not gonna ship my pasta after all.
Mine’s still stuck in Texas and going to Illinois. What’s going on?
@wistungsten mine finally left TX but has been chilling in Indiana for a solid week…I’m also in IL
@jchizmar, mine went straight from Texas to Kane County, still sitting around tho.
And now this morning, it doesn’t even show a tracking, just that it has been shipped. This is looking really bad for Pitney Bowes and Meh/PastaDrop/etc. But at least I got something from SideDeals.
I ordered 5/18 with expected delivery on 6/1 through 6/8. Product has shipped but not delivered. What’s up?
@hugeelvis
https://meh.com/forum/topics/pitney-bowes-complaint-thread
Showed as processing until yesterday, now it says it shipped on may 27 and arriving today. Is there any way I can see the weight? I checked Pitney Bowes with no luck, and it’s going to my sister so I don’t want to ask her.
@Seeds yeah weight was on Pitney Bowes but it looks like they’ve removed it.
When it was there it would only show the weight of one box, only way to tell if you had multiple boxes was through USPS Informed Delivery.
@Ignorant @Seeds
and even then . . .
Mine moved yesterday
we’ll see what that means, maybe tomorrow
So, everyone is getting 100+ pounds? LoL
@nostrom0 some people got as little as ten pounds.
My whopping 10 pound delivery finally arrived today, including a note to go order more at pastadrop.com. Thanks to the lightning quick processing by your friends at Pitney Bowes, this was delivered long after the last drop sold out, so that’s quite a marketing strategy there. Maybe they deliberately held up the small shipments on purpose?
@martinam That makes sense, because when people get 10 and 20 lbs that doesn’t feed into the fun so much as the multiple box shipments. I would not/will not do this again. Execution was just piss poor.
@martinam @Pitmonkey Let’s assume for a second that 20 lbs. for $20 is the price – including averaging packaging, shipping, web site development costs, customer support, carrying charges, etc. – at which Mediocre makes reasonable money on the ordeal (they’re not a charity).
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.
This doesn’t address the probability of getting larger shipments. So let’s just assume 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.
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?
I think this might be an interesting adjacent study of “who would pay more for the IRK lottery?”
WORKER BEES! HERCULES! TURKEY GREASE! AWESOME!
My 10 lbs should be delivered finally tomorrow. 20 really should have been the minimum, I couldn’t really find pasta that costs $2 a pound.
20 would be barely worth it, 10 just isn’t in any way
Still waiting for my penne… since May 27. “Tracking” info shows that it got closer on June 22. I think they tied it to balloons and are just waiting for the wind to blow in my direction to release it for final delivery. They can’t be using any kind of motorized transportation. They seem to be more of a storage company than a shipping company. Pitney Bowes… when you absolutely need something to get somewhere at some point in time, but don’t particularly care when, and don’t expect any updates during the process.
@warpedrotors It seems like Pitney-Bowes has begun to shake loose some of the shipments that had been stuck. I had 3 different shipments stuck in different Pitney Bowes centers, and they all seemed to have shaken loose in the past day or so, with all 3 being transmitted to the USPS yesterday. Once they’re handed to the USPS, then we get to deal with their current state of slowness as well… local package shipped from 20 miles away goes through a St. Louis facility that is adding 5-6 days to the delay.
Being a tubular pasta, penne turns out to be bulky, and even 10 lbs is a lot of penne. But it’s still probably not $20 worth of pasta. I can’t even think of what people are doing who received 100 lbs. That’s stack it up in the garage and find somewhere to donate it before it attracts mice quantity.
I just bought 8.8 lbs of organic spaghetti at costco for $10.
@kevinrs Pasta is shelf stable and can last for years if stored in a reasonable environment. Anyone with a pantry and some room has hit the jackpot with a big shipment.
We recently used some 15 year old Sams Club linguini; it cooked up perfectly and tasted great.
@duodec Considering the space just 10 lbs of penne takes up, I’m thinking few have space somewhere protected to store 100 lbs. Stored in just bags long enough, and mice or ants etc will chew into them. I mean 100 lbs could completely fill to overflowing a pantry if you even have one.
@kevinrs Our local food bank can repackage dry goods, that’s where we are making our donation. There’s a bit of concern about the 10 lb. bags, but the local (smaller) food pantries can deal with them especially for big families. My family is a family of 6, (4 sons) so we can burn through 10 lbs pretty quickly, usually 3 meals or so.