Mail inspectors are used to discovering the weird and wonderful in the overseas post but they were taken aback when they opened a parcel from the US to find a real, snarling bear's head.
Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service say it is one of the "strangest" things ever sent by mail.
The brown bear - sent by someone in New Jersey to their grandfather who lives in western Sydney - was first identified as a suspicious package by X-ray machine. It was intercepted at the Clyde Mail Centre, and the owner had to pay $60 to have it treated with gamma radiation before it could be released.Weird items that have arrived in the mail from overseas recently includes bear skin and a real elephant's foot, which had been made into an umbrella stand, a dried tiger's penis, a walking stick made from a bull's member, a mounted and stuffed exotic bird, bear and zebra skins, dried worms, and live creatures such as lizards, snakes, tropical fish and giant cockroaches.
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