Postage disgrace

[mrmoko]

In all my years of collecting I have never seen anything like this . This is a parcel from misterpop that arrived today .I was going to do a custom on the model from the get go but WTF ? This left the UK as a box and arrived here in Australia looking like this. It was actually in my letterbox. At first I thought it was a jiffy bag .Then when I had a better look I just cracked up laughing . Any idea what happened to it . I have a couple of ideas.

Used as a wheel chock for the airbus that bought it to Australia .

Postie used it for a cushion to sooth swollen haemorrhoids.

Postie just couldn't get it through that letterbox slot.

Any other members have any ideas what may have happened to it ?

BTW misterpop. Model is all ok .Thank you

[Dr Jazz]

Never seen anything like it

Looks like some car drove over it. Not OK

[numi]

Its disheartening to receive a parcel in this condition Mr Moko......Not a good feeling at all.
On a positive note the contents are safe and so is Misterpop . I had never come across such a flattened package before.It seems to have been run-over by a hyster/vehicle in the warehouse or so.This could happen to the best of sellers/packers.
Generally some sellers do not take pride in the packaging/packing which supposed to be part of the deal.Some sellers just seem to be there only for the taking and fails to realise that the item remains in their jurisdiction until the buyer acknowledges receipt in-hand and that the goods are in satisfactory condition.Some sellers simply do not apply common sense or common knowledge that these packages are not hand-delivered like fresh cookies but are mixed/loaded with other hard goods/cargo in the same crate/cage/net/container and are transported by Air,road,rail and then warehoused/handled and then despatched out to delivery,again with/amongst other parcels/goods.All that matters is that they got paid but fails to realise that the /any problems could arise just after that.
Sometimes/in some instances receiving a flattened package is better than receiving no package at all!!
On the other hand some sellers are on the ball and even offer to place valuable models in tupperware type containers for added protection.Now thats my type of seller!!!
numi

[johnboy]

I can't remember if it was shockwave who told us about the things that go on in the warehouses & yards en-route, so it's not surprising that a percentage of parcels end up like this. It's amazing that the model was ok especially after Nellie the Elephant had sat on it

[mrmoko]

Its disheartening to receive a parcel in this condition Mr Moko......Not a good feeling at all.
On a positive note the contents are safe and so is Misterpop . I had never come across such a flattened package before.It seems to have been run-over by a hyster/vehicle in the warehouse or so.This could happen to the best of sellers/packers.
Generally some sellers do not take pride in the packaging/packing which supposed to be part of the deal.Some sellers just seem to be there only for the taking and fails to realise that the item remains in their jurisdiction until the buyer acknowledges receipt in-hand and that the goods are in satisfactory condition.Some sellers simply do not apply common sense or common knowledge that these packages are not hand-delivered like fresh cookies but are mixed/loaded with other hard goods/cargo in the same crate/cage/net/container and are transported by Air,road,rail and then warehoused/handled and then despatched out to delivery,again with/amongst other parcels/goods.All that matters is that they got paid but fails to realise that the /any problems could arise just after that.
Sometimes/in some instances receiving a flattened package is better than receiving no package at all!!
On the other hand some sellers are on the ball and even offer to place valuable models in tupperware type containers for added protection.Now thats my type of seller!!!
numi

Hi Numi , Another arrived today . This time it was in a jiffy bag .A lovely bpw #29 Austin a55 in Near mint but faded duck egg blue roof . Result ? A pushed up base plate . DOH ! Now , where can I find Tinmans Jiffy bag hall of shame ? . This seller is going on it !

[Tinman]

Now , where can I find Tinmans Jiffy bag hall of shame ? . This seller is going on it !

It's here: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=183

[misterpop]

Well there you go.....I like to send all my packages out flattened like this as its like having a built in crumple zone.You would be amazed how hard it is to get the customs labels down into the hollows.....Seriously, Good to know it was OK inside [Remind me what it was] As for more expensive items I find an old plastic VHS box to be a great protector but as I'm running out i will only send out the rarer items in one as I also find them great firelighters[[Boo hiss .Yes I know about the ozone but I dont have many rare items left to sell]]........

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Well there you go.....I like to send all my packages out flattened like this as its like having a built in crumple zone.You would be amazed how hard it is to get the customs labels down into the hollows.....Seriously, Good to know it was OK inside [Remind me what it was] As for more expensive items I find an old plastic VHS box to be a great protector but as I'm running out i will only send out the rarer items in one as I also find them great firelighters[[Boo hiss .Yes I know about the ozone but I dont have many rare items left to sell]]........

Hi misterpop, your local charity shop will have an endless supply of VHS tapes, I'd go for the "Linda Lovelace" or any "Deep Throat" titles, I don't know what the films are about, I just know the cases are really good and strong.................................................

Ghosty.

[misterpop]

3 for a pound an all.........With four video machines still in the house if I fancy an old or popular film night in, you cant beat a bit of cheap tele......Watch and ditch........Son keeps buying DVDs and watches once and puts on a nice shelf.....Oh dear.....You can have anything you want on your video shelf,no one will ever look or borrow them..

[GHOSTHUNTER]

This is slightly, well, actually, very 'off topic, but I have literally in the last few days, started to re-use a VHS Video recorder for recording TV, this is because I had run out of space on my 'Hard-drive' recorders and blank DVD discs can be a little costly.

I have simply put a Scart cable from the back of one of my 'Hard-drive' recorders, which is Digital 'Freeview', into the VHS, I can now record Digital TV onto VHS tapes, of which I have hundreds of the things, job done

Ghosty.