I fell in love with my delivery guy — now we’re the full family package
She wanted this hot delivery hunk‘s junk — and now she’s got the full package.
Struck by a bolt of bravery, one spunky single lady decided to “shoot her shot” at a musclebound mail courier, asking him out on a date via text messages without ever getting a glimpse at his face.
And six months later, the two unlikely lovers found themselves engaged and expecting their first child together.
“The way we got married was very quick,” Tanatsa Lucas, 30, of Brisbane, Australia, told South West News Service of her whirlwind romance with husband Corey Lucas, 28. “Lots of people told me not to do it, but I wouldn’t have changed how it all happened for the world.”
It was love at first phone call for Tanatsa, a manager with Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme. The moment she heard Corey’s voice in June 2020, the hot-to-trot siren felt an immediate attraction.
“I was doing my nails at the time, and my delivery driver called,” the mom of two remembered. “He was speaking really nicely on the phone and was very respectful.”
“I could tell even being on the phone with him for less than a minute that there was just something different about him,” Tanatsa, a native of Zimbabwe, said.
Corey’s smooth talk prompted the bold belle to talk him into taking her out for a drink.
“I asked him if he would mind dropping the package outside my apartment, as I was going to be going out soon,” she said. “Something inside me was telling me to shoot my shot and ask him out.”
At the time, Tanatsa was anxious to dive back into the dating pool.
“I was newly single. I don’t know what happened, but something just came over me and I just thought, ‘I may as well ask — you never know,’” she said.
Just an hour after Corey delivered her parcel, Tanatsa sent him a simple text, reading: “You single by any chance? Haha.”
And luckily for the fearless fox, her handsome shipment schlepper was single and ready to mingle.
The trend of women making the first move on an unwitting paramour is becoming increasingly popular amongst Gen Z and millennial lover girls.
Newlyweds Monica, 32, and Michelle Foster, 57 — who first met when the younger of the two was the elder’s student in high school — exchanged vows in June after the Y2K-kid reached out to her former teacher on Facebook.
And the fiery flames of amour between Long Island dad Ben Romano, 49, and new wife Krystle, 29 — whom the divorcé originally hired to serve as the nanny to his brood of three — ignited when she initiated a text message conversation. Following their cute correspondences, the May-December darlings fell head-over-heels in love and got married.
Tanatsa and Corey’s journey toward happily ever after, however, came with a surprise bump in the road.
After confirming that the object of her affection was available, Lucas and her would-be lover went out for a beer at a local bar. The couple’s relationship took off at lightning speed.
“It went really well; he was saying all the right things. We just totally clicked from our first meeting,” said Tanatsa. “He came back to my apartment, but nothing happened.”
However, something major did happen three months later — she became pregnant.
“That was not at all planned,” Tanatsa insisted. “I thought, ‘Oh s–t.'”
Although she was initially worried that her new beau wouldn’t be excited about their incoming bundle of joy, the lucky-in-love bombshell’s fears were assuaged when Corey popped the big question.
“It was only six months after our first meet-up, so I was blown away, but I said yes,” Tanatsa gushed.
With their families’ blessings, the tender twosome tied the knot on Dec. 19, 2020.
Just a few months later, in June 2021, Tanatsa and Corey welcomed their son, Archie, now age 2. The pair birthed their second boy, Theodore, in August 2023.
Tanatsa feels the addition of the littlest tot strengthened their marital bond.
“We grew to love each other even more after our second baby,” she said. “We still had our challenges, I had post-natal depression after our first baby, but we developed an understanding and are doing great.
“The only difference is before we had kids it was all about us — we now have to balance it out,” added Tanatsa. “We are really hands-on with the kids together; it’s really nice.”
And Corey, who ditched his post as a package carrier for a role as a driver for a suicide prevention charity in Melbourne, agreed.
“I’m so glad it’s all worked out,” he said. “We’re very happily married now and going better than ever. Our love is growing stronger every day.”
And while Tanatsa was the one who set their fairytale love story in motion, she credits her hubby with making her dreams come true.
“I still can’t believe it happened,” she said. “He saved my life all over again.”
