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The idea is as straightforward as it is tempting… get to open a package that didn’t even reach the recipient’s front door.

Presenting the newest ‘mystery package’ trend taking over our shopping malls, organizers King Colis present this deal hunt as an enjoyable activity.

Their website says: “When you purchase lost packages, you can’t ever be sure what you’ll get: High-tech items? Jewelry? Clothes? Shoes? Handbags? Gadgets? Video games? Collectible items? Each unboxing is a fresh journey!”

What marvels could the brownEvriWhat does the package include? Rare gems, carved from the depths of an African diamond mine or a sparkling gift box, displaying his and her Rolex watches?

It has been alleged that a woman inFranceOnce discovered a bar of gold.

You have 10 minutes to complete your parcel dash, and then you pay based on weight at the conclusion. At the St Enoch Centre inGlasgow, which we visited this week, the price is £2.50 for every 100 grams.

Some claim that pure greed is what drives the most effective plans, but I wasn’t ready to consider such pessimistic ideas as I observed enthusiastic shoppers ahead of me searching through boxes of possible treats.

I entrusted my confidence to the young woman standing before me in line, who was on her lunch break from a prominent jewelry store located in the nearby Argyll Arcade.

“I came across a story about someone discovering a Cartier watch,” she said.

Even the image of a single young man, visibly disappointed, failed to affect my limitless hope.

A romantic individual from Motherwell in Lanarkshire captured an image of his unopened ‘bounty’ on his mobile phone, sending it along with the message ‘surprise surprise’.

He told me it was his wife’s birthday and that is why he avoided going to many stores to buy presents. I wonder how that turned out.

With a £100 budget, I was ready to cut through the many packages I believed I could afford.

Resting in St Enoch Square after my shopping trip, I got ready to show off my purchases.

Recollections of sweet shops from the early 1960s surfaced, the ones my grandparents used to take me to on Sunday mornings, where you could obtain a ‘Lucky Bag’ filled with a variety of sugary delights.

This was adult-oriented Lucky Bags.

So what about my treasure collection that totaled £99.75? It was perhaps unfortunate that the first package opened contained replacement inflatable rubber inner tubes for a very small tire.

Would this be the first thing to appear on my tat-ometer?

Without any specific sequence, I came across two slim metal rulers, a variety of women’s blouses and T-shirts, vividly colored electrical cables, several XXL men’s casual shirts, the type of hooks commonly found hanging from a butcher’s rack, three door handles (including screws) and two sets of thin plastic circles that might have come from a ‘Spirograph’ box.

One of the packages was directed to a visitor at HM Prison in Hull. It might be simple to assume that someone is about to receive the prison for this collection of nonsense.

In my enthusiasm, I might have accidentally placed my reporter’s notebook into one of the containers filled with packages.

So, if someone claims they discovered a ‘Notebook’ during a future sale, don’t assume it was a slimline computer. It’s simply a regular notebook.

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