Spam is the new hot sock – how to get yours

Sure beats more socks.

You won’t find the hot new gift this holiday season on store shelves or on your favorite e-commerce site.

People are selling unsolicited packages, and you don’t know what’s inside until you open them.

For example, Florida-based Fundelivered has sold 90,000 packs in three years, according to founders Rebecca Dallman and Jena Butler — unloading everything from a $39.98 “mini” sample to a “party-sized” box of hopeful loot profitable.

Some customers are stuck in the streets of homelessness, like shopper Rachelle Harris, who told the Wall Street Journal she plans to send her family junk mail for the second Christmas in a row this year.

And before you laugh, consider the potential — Harris said that last year, her shopping spree netted her everything from a Chanel bag to a human-sized Bowser costume, not to mention a bunch of fake IDs.

Mostly, for her family, she said, it was for the laughs.

“Almost everything we opened was something funny,” Harris said. “I posted the videos on Facebook and my sister-in-law said she couldn’t stop watching because we were laughing so hard.”

However, one woman, Susan Shuweihat, learned the hard way that not every gamble pays off.

Shuweihat told the media that her boss adamantly didn’t want a birthday present, but she went above and beyond regardless.

The eager employee hand-delivered a box of junk mail to his home and watched as he and his wife opened it inside. Like what Buddy Elf got Walter Hobbs, a sexy piece of underwear came out of the box first – followed by a much weirder Fleshlight.

“They thought I was going to put it all on,” she said.

Others, like Oregon medical professional Anna Antonopulos, have had more professional success with the casual mystery game. She routinely leaves boxes of unsolicited mail in her study.

“At the end of the shift, we open them up and get some really funny stuff,” she said.

Antonopoulos also bravely gave a box to her 11-year-old granddaughter on her birthday. Although it’s age appropriate, it certainly wasn’t a gift most young people would call for.

The package was a blanket with pictures of a bearded man, his partner and a baby with the message “Happy Mother’s Day, Tiffy”.

Despite this, the aunt of the year said: “It’s her favorite blanket.”

“She sleeps with him every night.”