Shipping horrors (post pics)

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Hi;
I was just talking with Bill E. (PMs) and it dawned on me of how many times my packages were beat to hell during transit.

How about a thread, very quick, post a pic and the carrier of your most recent "beat to hell" deliveries.....

I'll start it off.... here is one from UPS, it looks like it was literately kicked to death then gnawed on.....

Jeff
 

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I ran a UPS Store for 2 years and that package actually does not look that bad. When customers would come in with a prepacked box and I would ask how well it was packed and if it was breakable/delicate, etc. I would say that you should consider that you box will drop a distance of 2 feet onto a concrete floor, if I held their box in the air and posed to drop it on the floor and they showed concern, that box needed to be repacked.
And BTW, from what I see in those photos, a claim would NOT be paid as that box appears to not be packed properly to UPS specifications, from what I can see in those pics.
As for "Fragile", be carefull with that...drivers seem to throw those boxes with "fragile" written on them bit harder for some reason...
 
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I don't have any package shipping stories but I have a few game shipping stories. At one point, I used to ship 5 or more games a week. I used Yellow Freight a lot. I sometimes used a fairly local carrier (Brown Transfer Company) which transferred the piece to Old Dominion and several others. One day I found sititng behind our building a Fish Tales pin I had shipped. It had been knocked off its pallet and showed fork damage from a fork lift. The playfield glass was in a billion pieces all over the playfield. I don't remember what happened with the claim but the game did eventually get fixed. Though it was never as good as it was. It had been a really sweet pin. There was also a Sinistar that had been farmed out for a new paint job and stenciled art. It came back looking like a million bucks but after it got shipped it had a pair of fork lift holes in it.
 
I received this awesomeness yesterday:

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Every time I have something that has to be dropped at my door (instead of our neighborhood communal box) it is F*ed up. I'm livid...
 
oh i love when my mail person bends and crams things that say DO NOT BEND in my mailbox, the way he/she leaves packages in the snow and rain at the door right where my overhang drips ignoring my Please Knock sign letting my artwork get soaked....

shall i go on?
 
Boxes won't get crushed like that if they have enough packing material inside. You can't expect a hollow box to travel cross-country and not get crushed by the load on top of it.

Pack them tight with wrap, peanuts, or a combination of both and LOTS of tape and you'll rarely have trouble.
 
I don't have a smash 'em up story like the previous posters...but...
I recently shipped a game from coast to coast using Pilot Air Freight. Everything arrived fine, I picked it up at their dock myself - signed the freight bill, took it home, played the game all was well. ....until next month - when I got an additional bill for an extra $200 from the freight company. They never called me, e-mailed me, snail mailed me - nothing! Disputing it with the freight company went nowhere! I'm currently disputing it with the Credit Card company and they definitely classify it as an Unauthorized Charge. I imagine if the credit card reversal stays in my favor, they will just start sending me invoices (that I will never pay) and it would eventually go to collections - what a nightmare! Stay away from these guys!

-Muel
 
AND...remember all the deliver the mail no matter what kinda stuff we grew up with? Dark of night, snow, sleet, etc? No F'ing way anymore! If my mailbox has impeded access to the mail jeep in any way, even if a car is not parked directly in front of the box, just enough to have to make the carrier either get out of the jeep or go in reverse to get to my very accessable box, I don't get mail that day. They have almost no excuses with my box; no dogs, no fences, no lock on the box, the box is accessable to curb delivery and the bastards STILL won't deliver my mail if they get any resistance whatsoever and this became clear after I had to flag down my carrier and talk with her for 15 minutes! USPS is el SUCKO!
I will say this, if you have a bad attitude about shipping UPS, that karma will substantially increase the possibility of having possible issues with your UPS package. If you have a great attitude and are 100% confident in UPS, like me, my packages are ALWAYS delivered without any problems. Just an observation and my current UPS Store agrees with this. It is what it is....
 
I'm with you on the rebel transport, I've had that happen before. There are soo many sellers on ebay who don't give a shit about packing your item so that it arrives in one piece.

The first NES system I bought complete in box showed up wrapped in grocery paper bags. It was absolutely destroyed, ebay wouldn't side with me. That has since happened with an original xbox I had bought complete in box, again, ebay sided with the buyer, I couldn't get a partial or full-refund. There were even busted game discs in that package. In both cases I had photo proof, ebay doesn't give a shit. Also, BOTH had insurance, you wanna guess what the post office said? lol

I've bought boxed NES/SNES games to have them show completely smashed in a padded envelope.

I always make a note of the seller, ad them to my ebay avoid list or whatever, I let them know - then I tell them that I'll be informing all my friends and fellow collectors.

That turned into more of an Ebay rant, but I do have a UPS story. The lady-boy UPS driver used to have a temper and I'd see her beat on packages a couple times a year. I had HUGE order from Newegg in like '06, I watched her back the truck in our driveway, the back door opened, and she LITERALLY kicked the package off the truck, then shuffle-scooted it to the back-door through gravel with her legs, and electronic clip-board in hand. LOL Bitch. I met her at the door with a "SERIOUSLY!?!?!?" ~ Nothing was damaged except the box.
 
oh i love when my mail person bends and crams things that say DO NOT BEND in my mailbox, the way he/she leaves packages in the snow and rain at the door right where my overhang drips ignoring my Please Knock sign letting my artwork get soaked....

shall i go on?

I was about to put a sign inside my mailbox that addressed this issue. I then thought that may cause more packages to be crammed in there forcefully. :)

I also can't tell you how many times my mailman has balanced medium flat rate boxes on the edge of my open mailbox door.
 
I was about to put a sign inside my mailbox that addressed this issue. I then thought that may cause more packages to be crammed in there forcefully. :)

I also can't tell you how many times my mailman has balanced medium flat rate boxes on the edge of my open mailbox door.

I too wanted to put up a sign, especially after the mailperson destroyed not one but TWO of my mailboxes....

They tried saying our last mailbox wasn't US postal approved (OH YEA WELL WHY DOES IT SAY US POST ON THE FRONT OF IT!?!?), the newest one my mail person didn't want to fully close all winter and almost broke the door off it already as snow melted and started to ice up the hinge.....

I seriously want to go out there and have a kindergarten class on how to use a mailbox.
 
Non-arcade, but this really pissed me off..but the box ended up barely damaged somehow. I recall the seller was a real flake-

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Very cool transport! I picked one up on ebay over a month ago, but I recall my box w/ a yellow hue scheme?

Yeah, apparently that seller has *no* clue on how to ship priceless stuff!:rolleyes:
 
Very cool transport! I picked one up on ebay over a month ago, but I recall my box w/ a yellow hue scheme?

Yeah, apparently that seller has *no* clue on how to ship priceless stuff!:rolleyes:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that one and maybe some others came with multiple art versions/colors.

Years ago, I got back into vintage SW, just long enough to pick up some pieces that I missed 'back in the day' on Ebay and some reissues, like the Imperial Shuttle, which I missed during the ROTJ era. I found the blue Snaggletooth in a comic book store in Pittsburgh and bought some more loose figures on Ebay that I didn't have as a child. I have all of the vintage figures loose, except for half of the POTF line, and I have a dozen or so mint on the card. Most of the carded figs I bought in the late 80s/early 90s when they were worth very little.
 
When I lived in an apartment I had a USPS guy that would grenade lob my boxes over a fence and onto my back patio. Really fucking annoying. In some cases, I didn't even know a package arrived until a few weeks later when I found it rained on and stuck in a corner.
 
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