Don't you just hate it when you receive a totally flat parcel and the postal service just writes it off as being badly packaged? Well in about half the occasions they're actually right. People don't realize that even though the box act as a kind of exoskeleton it need some kind of pressure from the inside in order to survive in the hands of the various postal services spread around the world. Quite often I receive parcels that people just haven't filled out and they get utterly destroyed along with its content. This is especially bad if they've used some flimsy box. If you've used a sturdier one you often minimise the risks even more and can get away with being sloppy. Sorry just had to vent a bit after receiving yet another demolished one at work. edit: spelling
I totally agree. Whenever I mail anything I always ensure that bar a post lorry running over it it should arrive in the same state it was mailed. I always state this when listing and the posatge fee`s I charge are always that little bit higher. If people want something sent in an envelope and non insured etc I will provide a receipt as proof of posatge then they can get stuffed if it doesn`t arrive or arrives mashed Sort of rant over
I bought a SEGA item in it's original box, the auction stated 'a collectors piece'. What he does; he sends me the item and uses the box ITSELF for shipping. Stamps, big amounts of tape to hold the address paper, all on it. :smt1069 Obviously he isn't alive anymore.
I stand by my conviction that the United States Postal Service employs, in every post office, a dark room filled with large men whose only job is to sit on randomly selected packages to keep their quota of manhandled and squashed items up. Of course, I suppose a decent respect for customers and their packages, and cognizance of the fact that most mailed items might be fragile or delicate in SOME way would also help prevent squished parcels, but let's not get carried away here wishing for pigs to fly.
That's just... that's just mean!! Whenever yo ship something out you guys. Make sure you fill it up with paper, etc. and pack it in tight. You don't want to hear it shake. If the postal service hears the package shake, the sound stiffles them with the need of doing something to the box so that it no longer makes that noise, which includes crushing it to compress the space inside. Make sure you write fragile on the box on all sides in red marker, even on tapes, etc. Go the extra effort so that your package gets there in one piece.
