Worst type of eBay "guy"

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Speaking of shipping, I hate:

--The guy who puts a card saver or top loader into a padded envelope without a stiffener, and especially the one who sticks a packing peanut in there too. What kind of moron thinks that is going to make it to the customer without damage? Ever see a 1960 Leaf baseball pack? The damn marble just tears through the wax paper.

People do this because if a envelope isn't at least 1/4" thick, its not eligible for tracking. A few packing peanuts solves that problem.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Jim65

People do this because if a envelope isn't at least 1/4" thick, its not eligible for tracking. A few packing peanuts solves that problem.

Yeah, I never understood that. 1/4" inch isn't that much. between a couple pieces of cardboard and the surrounding packaging and you have yourself an easy 1/4" inch. Anyways, I think if you go deep enough into the handbook, you find an "or"..................as in 1/4" inch.........or........the package is a rigid.

Been shipping that way with tracking for over 20 years without an issue. 1000's of packages.

Well.............maybe one. Over 10 years ago, I think an overzealous clerk sent a package back to me with that 1/4" inch notation, from around the Philadelphia area. Went and dug up in the handbook the full definition of the dimensions of package tracking for 1st Class Mail, brought it back to my branch office, and they just threw it back in the system and it eventually got where it was going.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Yeah, I never understood that. 1/4" inch isn't that much. between a couple pieces of cardboard and the surrounding packaging and you have yourself an easy 1/4" inch. Anyways, I think if you go deep enough into the handbook, you find an "or"..................as in 1/4" inch.........or........the package is a rigid.

Been shipping that way with tracking for over 20 years without an issue. 1000's of packages.

Well.............maybe one. Over 10 years ago, I think an overzealous clerk sent a package back to me with that 1/4" inch notation, from around the Philadelphia area. Went and dug up in the handbook the full definition of the dimensions of package tracking for 1st Class Mail, brought it back to my branch office, and they just threw it back in the system and it eventually got where it was going.

We have a lady that sometimes fills in at our PO. She thinks it is her duty to try and fold your bubble mailer in half.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by bnorth

We have a lady that sometimes fills in at our PO. She thinks it is her duty to try and fold your bubble mailer in half.

Sellers should keep an image of that person in mind when packaging things for shipment. If they did, far fewer items would arrive damaged.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by bnorth

We have a lady that sometimes fills in at our PO. She thinks it is her duty to try and fold your bubble mailer in half.

Originally Posted by Eric72

Sellers should keep an image of that person in mind when packaging things for shipment. If they did, far fewer items would arrive damaged.

Newman....

[Frankish]

These are excellent. So many hit home!

One that really peeves me is people who secure a top loader to the inner surface of the shipping envelope so that you have to cut the envelope open on three sides to extract the card without risking it.

[D. Bergin]

I got a card in from the U.K. the other day. Card was fine, but I needed a literal scalpel to get the card out of the top loader-ish plastic it was in, it was covered in so much heavy duty tape.