My wife’ birthday is coming soon and I have been looking at various stores online to find a present for her. I found something I like but also realized that it is an online shop with no walk-in stores or pickup options. My wife is a housewife who will collect and open any package or letter arriving at our house. I am scratching my head for good ideas on whether it is possible to get delivery to a local convenience store, pickup box or similar in order to avoid the wife opening her own present on arrival, ruining the surprise element for her birthday. Any advise would be highly appreciated.
For info: I live in Tokyo and I don’t really have friends or colleagues where I feel I can ask them to receive a delivery.
9 comments
Have it delivered to a parcel locker or conbini.
Locker or conbini aside, might also get it delivered at your work if possible.
Also, you could just tell your wife that you’ve bought her present online and don’t open the package when it arrives 🙂
Then it’s up to her to choose:
1) don’t open it
2) open it and check it out, and then act surprised by the gift on the day 🙂
That also alleviates any potentially disastrous scenarios where your wife discovers that you’ve received a package in secret from her.
You can send it general delivery to nearest post office.
Ask if you can get it delivered to your office.
My old colleague used to do that.
just get it delivered to your work-place, I did it all the time
I clicked the title expecting some infidelity or betrayal, this is too wholesome
Tell the wife to stop opening your mail?
Can you get it delivered at work? Provided you don’t work from home or anything.