A nice way to (at least partially) ruin your day

[Leon]

Originally Posted by vintagebaseballcardguy

+1 I would be much more upset with the seller's weak packaging than with the post office.

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It was weak but USPS did the damage...he put it inside a Priority box cut up and then in the mailer but it was still flimsy when I received it. He also put Do Not Bend on it 3x and the package did have HANDLE WITH CARE stamped on it...but it wasn't enough. Probably partial fault on both sides.

[Huck]

Originally Posted by Leon

It was weak but USPS did the damage...he put it inside a Priority box cut up and then in the mailer but it was still flimsy when I received it. He also put Do Not Bend on it 3x and the package did have HANDLE WITH CARE stamped on it...but it wasn't enough. Probably partial fault on both sides.

One holiday season, I worked for UPS. Let me tell you, no one looks at the words or warning. Everything moves fast, there is no time to read each parcel.

[pokerplyr80]

Had it been in a box that wasn't cut up this wouldn't have happened. I don't know the value of the picture but it doesn't seem like it would be that much more expensive to pack and ship a 130 year old picture the right way. Even if I have to pay an extra buck or two for shipping I'd rather have my purchase arrive in the same condition as when I bought it.

This one, that graded card that was cracked, and NJ's t206 that was taped to an envelope all have the same thing in common. Preventable damage due to poor packaging. I do not blame the USPS at all. People know, or should know this can happen when shipping in an envelope without proper protection.

[buymycards]

Package sorting machines read bar codes but they don't read anything else on the package. Don't blame post office when the seller is too cheap to buy a photo mailer.