Official *What did you get in the mail today?* Thread!!!

My swap with CameronB arrived! This is also comforting since my Butiki order went missing and i was worried it would keep happening with my mail.

Also my Oktoberfest tea from Damn fine tea :)

Got my Lupicia Golden Honey Dew 50g tin. Very tasty!

Got a lovely birthday surprise when I came home to find my What-Cha order waiting at my door! Wasn’t expecting it until at least next week. And it came with a sample of a super interesting tea and lovely note from Alistair too. Can’t wait to try them.

I got my swap from cookies! :D

I received my latest installment from the Golden Tips subscription plan: ten lovely new teas. Nice. Yum.

I got a wonderful surprise package that Ost sent me because she knew I’d been sick over the weekend. A couple of comforting teas to make me feel better! What a sweetheart :)

I got my swap from Sil with bonus samples and a sweet note. Man, this Cream Caramel from TeaGschwendner smells yummy!

Fauchon from Vente-Privee!!!!

http://instagram.com/p/vE4fyDRh4v/

It was a big mail day. Four Fauchon teas, Simple Loose Leaf, David’s advent calendar and a bag of oolong samples from Teavivre.

As many of you know I am a total sucker for “the tea experience”. It doesn’t matter what kind of experience, just any experience will do. All a company needs is cheeky marketing or to send me a toy or button with my tea (Hello A&D) and I am totally sold.

OK so I just had to come here and rant and rave about my recent purchase from Hibiki-an that just arrived today. I ordered some new matcha’s to try.

First of all, quick shipping from Japan, and it was free. The package arrived as a very thick and sturdy green paper bag (will be super easy to recycle). It was sealed perfectly, not to little tape and not so much you can’t open it without a chain saw. It was supremely labelled in both English and Japanese and the customs declaration was very clear, and as a result it was not opened and violated by customs officials.

So I open the outer green package and inside there is a beautiful colour patterned paper bag that is sealed with a decorative sticker. Inside that bag (which was also very easy to open so I didn’t have to wreck the cute paper bag) were little boxes which contained vacuum sealed packages of matcha. They didn’t need to be additionally packaged in little boxes, as far as I’m concerned matcha isn’t really ruined by squishing. I also got a beautiful post card and an English pamphlet on how to create traditional style of matcha. Super impressed :)

I am sure I will be ordering more from them, I really want to try their tea treats.