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Did anybody else get a gift from Coldplaying themselves? Thank you so much! It was very much appreciated - such a nice surprise - even though it arrived quite late for a Christmas Card 🙂

Unfortunately my last post got deleted, not saved or whatever ... only just realised ... But I really need to tell you that I got a proper Coldplay T-shirt from Romina all the way from Chile!!! In the most beautiful of all colours 🙂 . Together with two love buttons! My daughter - as usual - nicked the sweets. Thank you so much Romina - I am already following you on instagram 🙂 . I have not been to a concert on this tour - but I know what I will be wearing to my next Coldplay Concert 😍. Merry Christmas everyone!

just a very quick note to say that my secret santa gift has arrived today - all the way from Chile!!! I will open it later today or tomorrow with the due time and respect and then post here 😁 - I will not wait until Christmas 😊

I am very excited - only just got to check my match.

You can always get resale just before the shows!

I thought this is only in cinemas? Do we know which cinemas will participate?

Just around Christmas, my card also arrived. So sorry, that I forgot to post it timely! Today is the first day, my kids are back at school, so I have some more free time. The card was from Hungary! This is interesting, because I never got sent anything from Hungary 🙂 . Thank so much dear @b.kristof98 - I hope this is you - since I saw you liked other posts on here and your name is Kristof! So lovely to see, that Coldplayers are really everywhere 😄. Thank you for your nice words and wishes and I would like to wish you a happy New Year too!

Dear @coldplayisawesome sorry for commenting so late - the after Christmas Time this year was kind of mad with parents and kids around and for New Years Eve for the first time ever we went up to a little cottage in the snow - which was lovely. So glad the parcel arrived - as I had a negative track record with the US in the past. Also cool that you are an artist was well (like my daughter) and that you also do crocheting! Last year I sent a "I want something just like this" crochet dolly to my match in the Netherlands, but never got a feedback unfortunately. If you want sent me some pics of your stuff! Wishing you all the best for the New Year!

Only one card received so far?

My card is on its way over the big pond

Dear Yasuko, thank you so much - I did some more research and there is indeed some stuff that needs to go on the envelope besides the customs declaration which I had before. Like "unsolicited gift" and "exempt from prior notice (FDA). Maybe I out the non-commercial use as well just to be sure. Let#s have so much fun!!!

I have participated a lot of times already and everytime I sent something to the US it did not arrive - so that is why I was interested in that special case. But thanks anyway @Yasuko

Has anybody sent something from Germany to the US before and it arrived? Are there any restrictions about what to send and what not - e.g. is chocolate /Cookies allowed?

Same here, I am not tracking it, as it is my neighbour country, but I posted it about 3 weeks ago. I also had two secret santas that I never heard of, not even when I sent a private message to say it was lost in transit in one of the cases.

Hello everybody! I was the last one to sign on, I actually had missed the deadline … but Santa Claus was so nice as to add me on last minutes since he had not drawn the matches yet. And then I was probably the first one to receive my card and gifts! It arrived before December and I contacted AndreaF to say thanks, but it took me until now to upload and select some pictures. I got a lovely painted card in black and gold with a guitar and the text of Everyday Life, as well as artfully decorated baubles also in black and gold with Coldplay and a sun and moon emblem. Even the Christmas card was handmade. Really very arty and wonderful gifts. The chocolate balls in the little tree were also very cute. My daughter always loves it when there is milk chocolate in the parcel, as she gets to eat it then, since I only eat dark chocolate because of intolerances. In addition to that I received a card from snowwhite who was my last year’s Secret Santa, and she had read that I missed the deadline. How sweet is that!

I missed the deadline …

@Coeurli, I am so glad everything arrived safely. I had two secret santas in the past that did not make it to their destination, so this is very pleasant indeed. If you need a recipe for the cookie cutters please let me know!

Hello everybody, my Secret Santa arrived last week already, but for the first time ever I did not open it straight away when it came. I was far too busy with other stuff and wanted to give it undivided attention. Also my family is nowadays as excited as I am, since especially my daughter gets to eat the milk chocolates that I unfortunately cannot eat :). So we agreed on a day and time that is convenient for all of us and we opened it festively on Saturday afternoon with a cup of tea! Thank you so much dear @Snowwhite for your lovely package. It was so neatly packed and beautifully decorated. I will definitely keep the box. I really appreciate that you searched the threads and found out about X&Y. It was indeed when I got to know them, and I have fond memories of back then. We lived in England at this time and I saw them on talkshows, the Brit Awards and they were playing Fix you and Square one, in the gym I remember to cycle to videos from this album. Also „What if“ is a great song. However it is hard to decide what is my favourite album. So back to the point, I really like the X&Y coaster and also the socks are great. Don’t worry about the milk chocolate, I saw two dark ones as well, and as I said, there is someone already waiting for the others … Thank you also for the other nice pieces, like the menu cards, the candy cane and the tea lights. All arrived safely. Thanks also for the nice letter. Now I will post the pictures:

I know others who are older including myself and it is a lot of fun believe me. Unless parcels are lost, unfortunately …

Today I have received the confirmation from postal services that the gift I had sent to the US has officially been declared lost. The last package that I had sent to the US, I think it was California as well, was also lost. I did not track that, but never heard anything back from that Coldplayer. In Germany we have carneval season at the moment, although I am not participating this year. So HELAU everybody, happy Carneval!:heart_eyes::imp::cool::gslite:

maybe it is lost in transit. I have two parcels still in transit, one for over a month and one for two months now. I have let my match know so that they at least know I cared to prepare something.

This card is awesome. Wow such good drawing skills!

Merry Christmas everyone! My package still shows in Transit and it has reached the destination town since three weeks. This is strange. Lets hope for the best!

My package received its destination town on 7th December and still shows in transit. It must be customs. I hope they release it before Christmas.

On another note, I am very happy to say that I have received my package already as well. Same as last year, I was kind of worried when the doorbell rang, as I thought, who can that be, haven’t ordered anything and oh my god I hope it is not my son who has forgot that he has afternoon classes again … haha. Then it was a friendly postman handing me a package from sunny Italy. I thought this can only my secret santa!!! No way I was gonna wait to open it although it seems like a nice idea as well. I got a beautiful self-designed Coldplay Calendar, Chocolate and some lovely decorations. I really like the little dolly and the chocolate looks delicious. I was even happier when I found out that one of the chocolates is a dark one, since I do not tolerate cows milk that well. But I will try both anyway later on. So dear @FortyTwo42 thank you so much for taking extra care in putting together my little secret santa surprise. Unbelievable that mine will be the first picture this year. Here it comes: