Card packaging...

ozballer23 · Jan 17, 2012

ooneil said:
Nah it was only single ply - what a rip off!!

that's gold

Supercharged Collection · Jan 17, 2012

ooneil said:
I had a guy send me some cricket cards last week in a white envelope. He protected them well..............they came wrapped in toilet paper.

was it folded or scrunched when it arrived?

A_Iverson_I · Jan 18, 2012

ooneil said:
Nah it was only single ply - what a rip off!!

Home brand!? Was it recycled at all?

ooneil · Jan 18, 2012

Home brand. Think of the damage that that kind of TP can do to you when your wiping. My cards had no chance!

A1CardsandGaming · Jan 18, 2012

I do not have time to read every reply here this morning but here is one reason why you should never send cards in envelopes !!!!

One of my relatives is involved in the postal system and from what I am told, all plain envelope mail are run through a sorting machine and padded mail bags do not
(Being run through a machine is probably not the best way for your cards to travel)

Also not sure how the bubbles protect from the rain so team bags all the way for me

graham · Jan 18, 2012

ooneil said:
I had a guy send me some cricket cards last week in a white envelope. He protected them well..............they came wrapped in toilet paper.

That's a ****ty way of packaging!

hairyangryfella · Jan 18, 2012

A1_Cards_and_Gaming said:
Also not sure how the bubbles protect from the rain so team bags all the way for me

Well in the country next door that is much better than Australia, the bubble mailers themselves are kinda plasticy, so that help protect from rain. Also rather than rain soaking through a plain envelope it's got further to go (through bubbles) so it's all-round a better option.

PistonsFan00 · Jan 18, 2012

i just received a card between two bits of cardboard and in a white envelope

jared_davey · Jan 18, 2012

A1_Cards_and_Gaming said:
I do not have time to read every reply here this morning but here is one reason why you should never send cards in envelopes !!!!

One of my relatives is involved in the postal system and from what I am told, all plain envelope mail are run through a sorting machine and padded mail bags do not
(Being run through a machine is probably not the best way for your cards to travel)

Also not sure how the bubbles protect from the rain so team bags all the way for me

yep, i worked in a mail sorting facility in the central west of NSW for a while. those machines are brutal if you get a jam up..
bubble mailers are sorted by hand. they are 'placed/thrown' into bin corresponding with their desination, but its far less savage than the machine.

if its an absolute must you send in a PWE, send it in a big square one. the sorting machine cant handle these..

but bubble mailers are the best !

rishgoon · Jan 18, 2012

I had an interesting one a while ago from overseas. Received in bubble mailer so no worries there. But I had bought 2 cards. They were both in a penny sleeve each, in between 2 toploaders. Now I know this is a good way to send a handful of cards sometimes, but why not put 1 card in 1 toploader, and the other card in the other toploader??

theflyinggerco · Jan 18, 2012

rishgoon said:
I had an interesting one a while ago from overseas. Received in bubble mailer so no worries there. But I had bought 2 cards. They were both in a penny sleeve each, in between 2 toploaders. Now I know this is a good way to send a handful of cards sometimes, but why not put 1 card in 1 toploader, and the other card in the other toploader??

I had that exact thing happen to me today; 2 cards in between 2 toploaders... and the toploaders had 'freebie' cards in them too!

ozballer23 · Jan 18, 2012

hingey242 said:
i just received a card between two bits of cardboard and in a white envelope

Not from someone here I hope!

KB. · Jan 18, 2012

I only send cards between 2 toploaders if the cards don't fit in the toploaders or theres more then 2 cards.

tak35bne · Jan 18, 2012

The cheek of Australia Post............how's this, packaged up some cards to send to a collector off OCT just before Xmas, wanted Xpress post...........no probs, get the cards packaged and in a bubble mailer and take that to the post office. Tell the staff I want to send it express, they weigh and measure the bubble mailer for thickness and sell me a B4 Express Post envelope. I address it, put the bubble mailer inside it and off it goes.

Get a letter from AUPOST today for that parcel demanding payment of $4.50 because of insufficient postage............I ring the 13 number, they tell me that it was over a certain thickness so I explained the above. Putting the bubble mailer in the B4 envelope made it too thick but fortunately they waived the fee because my argument was sufficient and they accepted that...........I so very much wish we had another option than AUPOST..................

ooneil · Jan 18, 2012

I have been assured by someone at Austpost that they cant track those invoices they send out Dave. I have had 2 or 3 - i just return them to sender now.

I doubt they are even legal.

Strop · Jan 18, 2012

hairyangryfella said:
Well in the country next door that is much better than Australia, the bubble mailers themselves are kinda plasticy, so that help protect from rain. Also rather than rain soaking through a plain envelope it's got further to go (through bubbles) so it's all-round a better option.

That over in the East Islands of Australia?

Sanctum · Jan 18, 2012

jared_davey said:
yep, i worked in a mail sorting facility in the central west of NSW for a while. those machines are brutal if you get a jam up..
bubble mailers are sorted by hand. they are 'placed/thrown' into bin corresponding with their desination, but its far less savage than the machine.

if its an absolute must you send in a PWE, send it in a big square one. the sorting machine cant handle these..

but bubble mailers are the best !

I received a pack of 100 sleeves a few months ago in a tiny white envelope and the result was certainly brutal..

ace e · Jan 18, 2012

tak35bne said:
Well here is a packaging story I hope never to see repeated on one of my trades. I sent a couple of freebies to a collector, packaged as I described above............well today I get that bubble mailer back and it was marked RTS for return to sender............I think WTF............anyhow I open it up to find different cards that I had packaged in the first place. So, the other collector has opened my package, removed the cards and sent me a card back using all the stuff I sent (packaging materials) and was too cheap to pay for postage so they just taped the mailer back up again and marked it RTS...........how cheap is that................

That was me, i am pretty sure its not against site rules (it wasnt a trade) and was intended to surprise LOL, glad you got it buddy.

king megator · Jan 19, 2012

ok Ace e , i guess he did not like the free cards you had sent to him????

A_Iverson_I · Jan 19, 2012

hingey242 said:
i just received a card between two bits of cardboard and in a white envelope

Where from?

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