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Got home from work today to find my recently purchased copy of "Terror Street" folded damn near in half and stuffed into my apt. sized micro mailbox! The bastards won't fold most of the junk that I recieve, and I am constantly having to run to the post office and pick up this crap, but somehow they figured if they crammed this one enough it would fit. Damnit! I'm pissed! I tried to see some kind if irony, you know, with buk and the post office thing. but no. fuckit. I'm Pissed! Very minimin damage, but still. (Pissed)
 
The seller is certainly partly to blame. I have made the mistake before of not protecting things when I mail them but with a book worth several hundred dollars, it certainly is worth packing it well enough that it would be impossible to bent it in half.

But, you said that the book is OK in the end?

Bill
 
Hi Bill, I agree. the sellers should have put this in a box. they just wrapped it in some brown paper and put it in an envelope. wasn't like they weren't aware of the value. It came from Canada so the price was clearly written on the outside. I guess that the post person didn't notice the figure either. or just didn't care. and I suppose I should take some responcibility too. Next time I will be sure to ask about the sellers packaging. anyway the book is ok. wasn't creased or anything. I have it laying flat under some other heavy books right now. as soon as this holiday crunch is over, this babys going into a hard shell case...any ideas where I could get something like that?...;)
 
If at all possible, always have things mailed to your work address. That is, if you trust them. No mailboxes to cram; just nice flat packages. I hope your copy turns out to be OK! It's a fantastic book, and one of those treasures to own. By all means, get a Dover knows Dover thingy for it. Just measure your book carefully, because there is some real variability in the sizes of these.
 
....and on your birthday.

Maybe the postman hates his supervisor, has a bottle of red in his satchel and a typer at his apartment with a couple of cats.
 
I never mail a rare book just stuck in an envelope. It always goes into a plastic bag, then sandwiched between sheets of cardboard. The plastic is for those numbnuts mailmen who carry around a bag full of mail in the rain for hours on end, getting everything soaked. Folding a copy of Terror Street is a mortal sin. He/she goes to mailman hell for that.
 
I'm sorry about that! Was it a birthday-present from you to you?
I'm happy to hear, it seems to turn out being well.
 
This is all down to the shipper, not the PO. I mean, it's the PO's fault for handling mail like shit, but we all know they do that, and knowing that, we should make packages as idiot-proof as possible.

On Friday I received a small priority box that was insured for $500, but one end of the box was crushed (stuff inside was still okay because it was well packed). If they don't care about insured mail, you can forget about the rest of it.
 
whenever i ship something of value, i go overboard on the packing.
will bubblewrap and then place inside a much larger box. even with the poor handling by the postal workers, safe travel is usually obtained.
 
a coworker of mine had to harass the post office yesterday, since they had been leaving our mail on a loading dock out in front of the building, rather than ringing the bell and delivering it inside like they normally do.

luckily I ALSO got a package insured for $500 delivered today. mysterious, eh?
 
Ouch. I've held my breath on the couple of pricier orders I've made. Thankfully it has never turned out that way... That really sucks though.

The ironing is delicious, indeed, but not over as expensive an item as that!
 
is his name Ben?

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!

get it? Ben? Dover?

wooooo, good times, people. good times.
 
still mad at the post office for losing a special edition of steve's book that we sent out... the idea that hours and hours of painstaking labor (seriously) just vanished into thin air is pretty upsetting.
 
I see! Now I get it. :D

I Looked him up on wikipedia - adult movies is a 'nice' pc euphemism for porno movies.
 
Well this thread definitely has gone up the shit...ter. I guess Ben Dover is a clever name (in the world of porn it don't take much). He used to be "Steve Perry" but that was a singer's name as well. But his birth name -- Simon Honey -- is perfect.

Sorry 1fsh, I hope all this reminds everyone to put the proper protection around packages before they get stuffed in tight places. (Ba-rump-bump!)
 

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