On March 29th, 2003 (six days after my birthday), I received a suspicious package. It was a manila envelope stamped both FIRST CLASS and FRAGILE, with a return address in Pennsylvania but a Nashville postmark.
Curious, I ripped open the package and found, wrapped in tissue paper:
Five marshmallow Peeps wearing cloth bikinis.
And a piece of a Peeps package informing me that I was receiving a Peeps Show.
Nothing else. No note. No card. No explanation.
The word 'show' is written on the card in black magic marker. The bikinis are attached to the Peeps with glue, and the Peeps themselves are glued together. I believe the rightmost Peep was originally leftmost, but broke during shipping; there is glue on both Peeps where they would have been touching.
I returned to the envelope. It was nondescript except for the mailing label, postmark and return address. The mailing label was fairly plain (that's my address, sorry about the glare). But 'apartment' and 'avenue' are fully spelled out -- curious. And who has my zip+4?
The return address looked promising though: "JustBorn, Inc. Bethlehem, PA 18017".
A quick search revealed that JustBorn is the company that manufactures Peeps. No help there.
Finally there's the stamp:
Some information here, at least. This package was handed directly to a post office employee; someone spent eighty-three cents to mail me a Peeps Show. It was mailed from Nashville, I think from the Vanderbilt University campus post office.