Would you post a glass jar Yankee Candle in just a jiffy bag???

drc

I once bought a beautiful art deco mirror from ebay. It came wrapped in some bubble wrap and brown paper and was completely smashed.

The seller did refund me but I have never found a mirror like it and couldn't believe someone would send something so beautiful and fragile with such disrespect. At least the seller got 7 years bad luck .

CAPTAINBLONDECHICK

soolin wrote: »

We used to have a great thread about weird things seen at the post office. A few years ago I saw a woman with a big fruit cake in a plain white cake box who was attempting to explain to the lady in the post office that it couldn't be tilted at all as it would crumple and be spoilt, and had to be carried completely flat at all times...hmm.

Oh that's brilliant! :rotfl: We should get a thread like that going again as I'm sure there would be some belters.

in_the_Cotswolds

You want to see what comes to me to be delivered and it's just not only Ebay packets companies send heavy items in just an A4 envelope.

Example, there is a bespoke kitchen makers who ordered some hinges and they were sent in an A4 envelope no other packing, no wonder the paper ripped.

BitterAndTwisted

I once had a winning bid on a rather nice trouser-suit. When it arrived it was in one of those clear plastic thingys the Post Office use. The manilla envelope the seller had packed it in was almost completely shredded after having been flung about. I was lucky both pieces got to me relatively unscathed. Or rather, the seller was.

I sent the seller a perfectly polite message warning them about their inadequate packing. And received a rather abusive message back. So as revenge I made sure I mentioned the completely inadequate packaging in my feedback. Some people are very, very strange. And refuse to be helped either.

Crowqueen

I know I made the mistake of posting a book in an ordinary envelope once - I was in a rush at the PO and they didn't have any jiffy bags.

It got annihilated, and worse luck, it was a new buyer who left a neg before contacting - in the days when they were pretty indelible - who received it.

We resolved things perfectly amicably - and it's taught me the value of proper packaging indeed. Nowadays she would have been happy, I assume, to revise, but at that point there was no way of getting negs removed; mind you, I guess it was also before DSRs when negs were the only way a buyer could communicate their disappointment with a transaction, so perhaps it was less critical to one's account unless you got more than your fair share (and given that I can still remember it, I guess it was a very rare occurrence for me).

And to be perfectly fair to the buyer, it was a negative transaction.

POPPYOSCAR

I once bought a pair of (new)shoes from ebay.

I knew at once that is was my shoes as I could see the heels poking out of the brown paper envelope!!!

Strapped

hermum wrote: »

I suppose some people must think that each parcel is handled individually, carried by hand to a waiting van, rather than being heaved into a cage amonst hundreds of other items.

Does the RM also use automated sorting belts? Because those things pack a punch too.

cestlavie

i once won a glass in a competition run by grolsch, it was posted in a jiffy bag, no cardboard, no bubble wrap - it arrived broken and frankly they were lucky the post office didn't prosecute them for dangerous packaging as they sent out hundreds as prizes. constantly amazed at poor packaging when queuing at post office. people send unsealed boxes etc. -

aliasojo

soolin wrote: »

A few years ago I saw a woman with a big fruit cake in a plain white cake box who was attempting to explain to the lady in the post office that it couldn't be tilted at all as it would crumple and be spoilt, and had to be carried completely flat at all times...hmm.

I don't understand how some people reach adulthood.

Their complete lack of sense is astounding.

juno

cestlavie wrote: »

i once won a glass in a competition run by grolsch, it was posted in a jiffy bag, no cardboard, no bubble wrap - it arrived broken and frankly they were lucky the post office didn't prosecute them for dangerous packaging as they sent out hundreds as prizes. constantly amazed at poor packaging when queuing at post office. people send unsealed boxes etc. -

I once won a glass in a competition by Grolsch, and it was posted in a really flimsy box - not really cardboard, but more card as in the kind of thing kids would do art with.

It arrived ok!