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TCB => Trader & Shipping Support => Topic started by: Baby Sugarberry on March 20, 2012, 08:45:59 AM
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Make sure your seller packs them carefully, or better yet uses a box.
This is how mine arrived yesterday, in a padded envelope. :cry:
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Thankfully they were understanding, and I got a full refund for the item's price, but yeah. Pretty sad it got destroyed, because I very much wanted the accessory.
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EEEEK! So sorry that happened to you! Those postal sorting machines... augh!
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Small accessories in envelopes which look like letters = BIG NO!!!!
Having had a recent experience with something similar...its true the smaller the accessory the more a non collector will be tempted to add it to a standard envelope or letter and this will make the letter sorting machines go nom nom nom and eat/destroy your accessory.
Sorry this happened to you...at least your seller sounds reasonable...
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Yikes! What did they do throw it on the ground and stomp on it? Stupid PO :throw:
*counts my blessings* I guess I have been lucky when I have shipped one's that I have sold. I have always used a padded envelope with no problems.
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Small accessories in envelopes which look like letters = BIG NO!!!!
Having had a recent experience with something similar...its true the smaller the accessory the more a non collector will be tempted to add it to a standard envelope or letter and this will make the letter sorting machines go nom nom nom and eat/destroy your accessory.
Sorry this happened to you...at least your seller sounds reasonable...
I wouldn't say it's a no... but it needs to be shipped package not letter.
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after the experiences i've recently had with the post office (having mail ripped open and losing items, not having them returned after filling out forms..) i wrap everything, even regular letters in packing tape. i cover the WHOLE thing. mostly to give them crap about how they treated me for it. i was very upset with them for losing my items, i wasn't the one who packed them that way, and they still treated me like i was.
if you ship something, wrap it 50 times in packing tape, or put it in a box or mark it as a package. because they really don't care about what happens to your mail.
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oh my goodness! :( Stooopid PO! :throw: I'm so sorry to hear that hun! I'm glad that your seller refunded you, but its still really disappointing to see an item ruined by those sorting machines :sad:
I'm gonna agree with what Varkolak said - I always put a ton of tape all around the envelope or the box and completely seal it. I also pad out the envelope (if I'm using one - it depends on how fragile the item is) so that it has more protection and it gets sent as a small package, not as a letter ;) I do think that playset parts and some of the accessories which are hard plastic and hollow inside are better sent in a small light box to avoid the risk of damage though
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I naively assumed that for almost 6$ shipping, the tiny accessories I had bought would at least be decently packed. Nope. Thrown in a thin bubble envelope and the flap not even taped down.
Suppose I should be happy the two hairpicks and mommy charms arrived unscathed.
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Sorry to read this :(