• prioritymail.mp4
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[video=youtube;q5ta5jhDnwQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ta5jhDnwQ[/video]
that was a pretty unfunny video you made there
wait what
I was thinking this was like, a USPS propaganda video or something. I am disappointed beyond belief.
[QUOTE=OneFourth;44821115][video=youtube;q5ta5jhDnwQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ta5jhDnwQ[/video][/QUOTE] If this were really priority mail the letter would have shown up in a destroyed priority legal envelope with a sticker saying "WE'RE SORRY YOUR ARTICLE WAS DAMAGED DURING PROCESSING" with a single piece of paper inside detailing the process to recover mail from the distribution center it was damaged in. I'm being serious, my job requires me to work to some extent with the USPS and I see tons of straight up destroyed and damaged boxes roll through, even priority packages. It's pitiful.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;44821245]If this were really priority mail the letter would have shown up in a destroyed priority legal envelope with a sticker saying "WE'RE SORRY YOUR ARTICLE WAS DAMAGED DURING PROCESSING" with a single piece of paper inside detailing the process to recover mail from the distribution center it was damaged in. I'm being serious, my job requires me to work to some extent with the USPS and I see tons of straight up destroyed and damaged boxes roll through, even priority packages. It's pitiful.[/QUOTE] I always ship in boxes way larger than the object inside because I fear for this to happen. Minimum 4 inches of padding on all sides. It's expensive to ship things properly.
[QUOTE=draugur;44821279]I always ship in boxes way larger than the object inside because I fear for this to happen. Minimum 4 inches of padding on all sides. It's expensive to ship things properly.[/QUOTE] 4 inches is a bit much. 1-2 inches is perfect, as long as you package it properly and make sure it's tight for settling. If you can shake the box around and feel the item moving, it's not tight enough. Oh yeah, taping every seam and corner with duct tape is good too.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;44821362]4 inches is a bit much. 1-2 inches is perfect, as long as you package it properly and make sure it's tight for settling. If you can shake the box around and feel the item moving, it's not tight enough. Oh yeah, taping every seam and corner with duct tape is good too.[/QUOTE] It depends on the packing material I have at hand. If I have some good foam strips or something I don't use 4 inches, but if I'm having to use those annoying large air bags, they tend to make it 4 inches with just one bag on each side. Shit, half the time I get those, the airbags are deflated, only like two of them out of the entire section are still inflated when I open most packages.
[QUOTE=draugur;44821403]It depends on the packing material I have at hand. If I have some good foam strips or something I don't use 4 inches, but if I'm having to use those annoying large air bags, they tend to make it 4 inches with just one bag on each side. Shit, half the time I get those, the airbags are deflated, only like two of them out of the entire section are still inflated when I open most packages.[/QUOTE] Dude, nah. Those air bags are shit. They aren't worth dick for keeping an item safe. Just get a roll of brown kraft paper and some bubble wrap and you're good to go.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;44821417]Dude, nah. Those air bags are shit. They aren't worth dick for keeping an item safe. Just get a roll of brown kraft paper and some bubble wrap and you're good to go.[/QUOTE] Amazon always sends my stuff with them, it pisses me off so much. I've returned so many items because they arrived broken due to them being cheap bastards. I actually save and recycle any good packaging material, to the point where damaged or otherwise unusable boxes end up in my arsenal of cut up material for packing sometimes as well. It's not that I'm cheap, just that I feel that it's a waste to throw all of that away as trash and then buy packaging material.
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