Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
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Self Mailers

 Use of helium balloons as packaging for lightweight products.
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I'm thinking about things like really light 1/2 oz bags of chips or perhaps those Japanese seaweed sheet-snacks that are already almost lighter than air...

Stuff them inside balloons and let the prevailing winds mail them.

It might even work for letters and ohhhhh um junkmail...yeah can I fishbone my own idea?

—ShawnBob, Feb 29 2024





       Have a croissan.... oh no it has floated away and all I have left to give you is a fat stinky bone. Never mind, Better luck next time
—pocmloc, Feb 29 2024
   

       how does it get to the adressee, or if its junkmail you don't care where it goes to?   

       Hamas had kids sending fire bombs with balloons and it definitely worked. Burned down large areas of fields and forests. Then they started making explosive packages. One landed near a kindergarten in Gan Yavne another 55 km away in Modiin.
—pashute, Feb 26 2026
   
         


 

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