EPP Box Code

[Bohn007]

I heard someone mention this box code on a new box of Cohiba's from July 2016. If it was in fact from July of 2016 that would be the newest box of Cohiba's that I have heard of. Anyone else ever seen EPP? 

[NSXCIGAR]

No responses, so I guess we'll see in the coming months. 

FWIW, however, repeating characters in box codes is highly, highly unusual. Going through the 172 different codes offered by Rob from 2000-2016 there has been only one code with repeating characters--a UUS code that appeared in December 2005. No other code has ever contained repeating characters, and none were ever the last two characters. This leads me to believe the EPP code may be a typo or misread.

[TheGipper]

Interesting about the repeating letters.  There were quite a few in the early '00s (FOO, KMM, LLN in '03/'04) but personally I've seen none since then.

[SloppyJ]

There has been recent activity from ETP. Haven't seen anything on EPP though. 

[NSXCIGAR]

58 minutes ago, TheGipper said:

Interesting about the repeating letters.  There were quite a few in the early '00s (FOO, KMM, LLN in '03/'04) but personally I've seen none since then.

So it's slightly more common than I thought. I've never seen FOO but LLN and KMM seem to ring a bell now that you mention it. Clearly, whatever formula HSA is using repeating characters is extremely rare. About 300 codes over the last 16 years and only a handful of any with repeating characters, and none I'm aware of in over a decade. Obviously not a coincidence. I'd assume anything recent with repeating characters like EPP is a typo until visually confirmed.