Moving blankets from shippers, do you keep them?

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When you guys get shipments from NAVL or anybody else that offers blankie wrap service, do they unwrap your game and take them or do you get to keep em? I always get the same two guys dropping games off at my place and when they unwrap the game i always ask for the blankets. I've got a pretty good pile stacked up at this point. My Pong machine arrived yesterday with 7 blankets around it.
 
For the price they get for shipping, I bet the cost is built in. So if you are able to keep them, then I would.

They are really nice. A friend of mine got some when he had a game delivered from NAVL as well.

Chris
 
Yes, search the forums for Michelle from Precision NAL. They are handling everything via NAVL and STI.

And yes, I keep the blankets, too. They are quite nice.

Then again, I also have a few that are labeled UHaul. I'm sure someone paid a steep fine for that. LOL
 
When you guys get shipments from NAVL or anybody else that offers blankie wrap service, do they unwrap your game and take them or do you get to keep em? I always get the same two guys dropping games off at my place and when they unwrap the game i always ask for the blankets. I've got a pretty good pile stacked up at this point. My Pong machine arrived yesterday with 7 blankets around it.

I keep most of them, but any that come from Fritz get either sanitized or burned, depending on the volume of visible pecker-tracks-per-square-foot that I can see criss-crossing the fabric.
 
I keep most of them, but any that come from Fritz get either sanitized or burned, depending on the volume of visible pecker-tracks-per-square-foot that I can see criss-crossing the fabric.

My review of this post:

"I laughed, I cringed... I was totally conflicted and a very grossed out!"
 
Bed bugs are making a real return in the US, I'd at least bag and separate any blankets that arrived from any carrier involved in moving personal possessions like bedding. See what you can safely use to fumigate or treat them, before reusing them. This isn't a dig against any shipper, just use common sense.

If you wonder how real the problem is, just Google and see what some hotels and theaters are going through right now. Since the bedbugs are resistant, the usual stuff isn't working, and they're now resorting to using trained sniffer dogs to detect them.

The old "ounce of prevention" rings true, having a stray spider tag along in a cabinet is one thing, infesting your whole house with bed bugs would be devastating.
 
Moving blankets (aka) Furniture Pads or (Furny Pads) are great to have but they're not that expensive to buy new. Still, if they're not nasty and you can get 'em for free, go for it.

Furny pads are used in the television industry. Great for blacking out windows, sound dampening, rolling up Phet's houseboys for easy disposal, et al.
 
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