You'd think for Postal Increase you'd get better service!

Braveheart69Braveheart69
in Collector's Corner
Here is the box of small box CIB's and PAL exclusives that Speedy just sent me. $30+ in shipping costs and look how the good ol' post office handles it! One more reason it is hard for me to keep collecting PAL stuff, seems to be kinda typical. I love how they just hand it to you with a smile like nothing is wrong either... ARGH!



Pieter, not upset at you by any means, upset with post office!



Comments

  • DainDain
    Damn, not fun to get those. I've had a few as well, but luckily the one Pieter just sent me arrived safely. I would have cried had it not!
  • bunnyboybunnyboy
    I have gotten FAR worse than that. About a week ago someone asked me what the extra metal part I sent them was when mailing USB adapters. After a few photos and emails back and forth I figured out the USPS damaged the box I sent, and actually took an item from another box and put it in! Someone else is missing a metal piece from something and there is no way to figure out who.



    Crushed boxes are relatively common and somewhat expected. If they destroy it enough you get the whole thing in a plastic bag that says sorry for the damage, we care about your package, blah blah blah.



    Worst I have gotten is UPS. One box was very flat and had tire marks all over it. The controller inside sounded like it was in a thousand pieces. I didnt open the box and confronted them, they said I couldnt prove it wasnt mailed that way. image Maybe I should have matched it to the truck tires...
  • LimbofunkLimbofunk
    I was sent an aluminum sign via an auction I won on ebay, mint condition.  The seller bought a 10$ wide box, padded it, wrote 'fragile, please handle with care' sent it out via UPS...it arrived to me having the entire corner caved in, so I wound up severely upset with a beautifully damaged sign.
  • Dr. MorbisDr. Morbis
    Yeah, I think every last one of us who's been in this hobby any length of time has a few horror stories to tell. The thing that gets me is that, every once in a long while, I'll get an item that was deplorably packaged show up with it's contents in pristine condition. I just don't get it; it's almost like playing a game of roulette every time you send out a package.
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    Not shocking at all to me. I have seen how the get treated first hand. I am shocked any package makes it in good shape. If a fragile box get put into the bottom of a GPC mail cart then all the heavy stuff goes on top of it. We just throw, them in and don't pay any attention. If it is something expensive always double or triple box it, I am not kidding either.

    ~~NGD
  • wrldstrmanwrldstrman
    Lot of the problems Ive had lately is sellers sending boxed games in bubble mailers rarely to the ever get he in nice condition
  • Braveheart69Braveheart69
    Exactly, I will gladly ALWAYS pay even more than people's already inflated shipping costs to get a box instead of a damn bubble mailer. Every time I see one of those in my mail box I get pissed!
  • Hogie1418Hogie1418
    I dont understand that either because USPS gives boxes away for free that fit a boxed game perfectly.... Bubble Mailers cost money!!!! Also Ive never found that it is anymore expensive shipping it in a box.... who knows... people are stupid....
  • dangevindangevin
    I get carts, esp boxed carts, sent in plain unpadded manilla paper envelopes. And more often than not, the seller threatens to report me when I ask for a PORTION of my SHIPPING COST refunded because the box is ruined. Like I'm the bad guy, trying to bilk them out of their hard-earned dough.
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    If a CIB game is in mint condition I send it in a box, but if it is a little beat up already I bubble mail it. Bubble mailers are soooo much cheaper to send anything. I reuse mine anyway from packages I get in the mail, plus I bought like 500 of them years ago for like .06 each or something. So compare like 1.50 for ship the mailer to $4 to ship the box and there is a big difference cost wise. But anyone who ships a mint to VG condition CIB in the mail is a crackpipe.

    ~~NGD
  • Hogie1418Hogie1418
    can you not ship a small package First class? I hope so because I just did and it only cost me $2.45....
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    Sometimes you can, but usually it either weighs to much or is to large and has to be sent Parcel Post or Priority. I hardly ever get to send boxes first class.

    ~~NGD
  • Hogie1418Hogie1418
    As long as the package is less that 13 oz I believe you can ship anything no matter how big first class.... Id look into doing that for CIB games when you ship them individually... USPS has free boxes that fit the games perfectly....
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    All there free boxes are priority only and they have to be sent prioirty then. You can turn them inside out but my post office won't ship them that way cause they say it is taking advantage of the PO.

    ~~NGD
  • Hogie1418Hogie1418
    whoops.... Ive been taking advantage of the post office then image
  • Speedy_NESSpeedy_NES
    Damn Erik, that's pretty bad...were any of the games damaged? IIRC the box I used was sturdy, too. image I've seen it that bad before, but only from economy/surface mail packages sent from overseas, because they apparently get put in large shipping containers where they stack the boxes up pretty high from what I've heard & of course they're enroute for 2-3 months. I did get a sealed game in a few months back that was very well-packaged yet arrived damaged because something the size of a pole's width had been punched right through the box.



    I sometimes use bubblemailers when the items to be sent are in loose or worn boxed condition (unless it's a higher ticket item), otherwise I'll always try and use a box for shipping.
  • Braveheart69Braveheart69
    When I opened it I was holding my breath because of what was in it Pieter. However, I am very thankful that the small box games were all on that side, the major crush in the box seems to have just pushed those into the middle of the package so everything looks safe to me.

    Thanks again!

    ~E~
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