Unclaimed mail is the hot stocking stuffer this year — it’s easy to snag a sack of surprises: ‘We were laughing so much’

Sure beats more socks.

You won’t find the hot new gift this holiday season on store shelves, or your favorite e-commerce site — unless they sell bulk loads of unclaimed mail where you shop.

And you don’t even have to deal with the USPS — companies are snapping up the forgotten finds and selling them off to people who like surprises.

For instance, Florida-based Fundelivered has retailed 90,000 bundles in three years, according to founders Rebecca Dallman and Jena Butler — offloading everything from a $39.98 “mini” sampler to a “party-sized” box of hopefully lucrative loot.

Some customers are hooked on the homeless hauls, like shopper Rachelle Harris, told the Wall Street Journal she plans to give her family unclaimed mail for the second Christmas in a row this year.

And before you laugh, consider the potential — Harris said that last year, her purchase yielded her everything from a knock-off Chanel bag to a human-size Bowser suit, not to mention a bunch of fake IDs.

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

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

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

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

The eager employee hand-delivered a box of unclaimed mail to his home and watched him and his wife open it inside. Like what Buddy the Elf got Walter Hobbs, first a sexy piece of lingerie came out of the box — followed by a much raunchier Fleshlight.

“They thought I’d set the whole thing up,” she said.

Others, like medical professional Anna Antonopulos of Oregon, have had more professional success with the game of random mystery. She routinely leaves boxes of unclaimed mail in her workplace breakroom.

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

Antonopulos boldly gave a box to her 11-year-old niece on her birthday as well. While age-appropriate, it certainly wasn’t a gift most tweens would be clamoring over.

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

Regardless, the aunt of the year said, “It’s her favorite blanket.”

“She sleeps with it every night.”