handled with care .... not

[thecatspjs]

going viral on Facebook ATM caught on camera at Adelaide Airport yesterday

[i-love-my-sheep]

I buy quite a few mineral specimens from China and some would be classed as fragile or delicate due to fine crystals. You've only got to look at them and they'll snap off. I have never had a breakage. The Chinese might be known for being scammers in some categories, but when it comes to packing my minerals, they know what they are doing.

The boxes are either thick styro or thick carboard lined with styro. Each mineral is wrapped seperately in that yellow or white thin plasticy foamy stuff, taped, then wrapped in a LOT of toilet paper. The items are placed in the box snuggly and the spaces are filled up with small bits of broken styro. The box is sealed, then completely covered with thick, yellow packing tape.

Those boxes could be dropped kicked all the way from China and they still wouldn't break. Other minerals I've bought have come from Pakistan, who wrap and pack the same (except their toilet paper is hot pink!), Turkey, Slovakia and a few other countries around that area and they are all packed the same. Seems toilet paper and lots of tape seems to work wonders!

[i-love-my-sheep]

The first photo is how my minerals arrive from China (and other countries). I had already removed some of the foam bits and the foam sheet from over the top when I took the photo. The second photo is the toilet paper mountain after unwrapping 15 minerals. It was actually nearly knee high. 

The blokes from DHL could kick them and toss them all they like!

[old_holdens_never_die]

China! LOL! I bet it's toxic dunny paper!

[i-love-my-sheep]

I was more concerned about the hot pink dunny paper from Pakistan!!!

[2106greencat]

They are not actually throwing willy nilly..........

If you watch it closely you will see the sorting boxes.....they are lobbing the parcels in the boxes regarding weight and size etc with larger parcels being thrown to a packer.

So a 500g parcel does not run the risk of getting splatted by a 3kg or 5kg parcel, unless their aim is REALLY bad. LOL

No worse really than AP's advice to pack in a manner that can withstand 20kg dropped on it from waist height.

In couriers defence, can you imagine how long it would take to place each package carefully in each box, just to go to the depot and unpack again in a slow meticulous manner and repeat when loading the destination truck??

We all want and expect FAST FAST FAST delivery, I guess this is how we get it.

[agoraagogo]

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@i-love-my-sheep wrote:

I buy quite a few mineral specimens from China and some would be classed as fragile or delicate due to fine crystals. You've only got to look at them and they'll snap off. I have never had a breakage. The Chinese might be known for being scammers in some categories, but when it comes to packing my minerals, they know what they are doing.

The boxes are either thick styro or thick carboard lined with styro. Each mineral is wrapped seperately in that yellow or white thin plasticy foamy stuff, taped, then wrapped in a LOT of toilet paper. The items are placed in the box snuggly and the spaces are filled up with small bits of broken styro. The box is sealed, then completely covered with thick, yellow packing tape.

Those boxes could be dropped kicked all the way from China and they still wouldn't break. Other minerals I've bought have come from Pakistan, who wrap and pack the same (except their toilet paper is hot pink!), Turkey, Slovakia and a few other countries around that area and they are all packed the same. Seems toilet paper and lots of tape seems to work wonders!

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my purchases from china have been impressively packaged too; with custom shaped foam

[agoraagogo]

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@v_a_l_i_a_n_t wrote:

Australia Post handles parcels this way as well...... My local post office always told me when sending goods to expect something akin to the following - standing on a chair in one corner of a large room and hurling the parcel from above your head to the other side of the room! - The moral of their story was/is Pack Accordingly!

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a local aussie post employee told me not to bother with a fragile label (even though they sell them by the roll) as they have no impact because aussie post do not provide fragile handling.

[agoraagogo]

also...

my last delivery from aussie post was a ceramic owl from usa. gogeous thing. it was thrown onto my cement porch. i heard it smash. went to the window. saw the delivery dude pick it up, shake it and walk off...

[agoraagogo]

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@thecatspjs wrote:

going viral on Facebook ATM caught on camera at Adelaide Airport yesterday

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seen a melbourne airport employee do the same thing

[i-love-my-sheep]

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@agoraagogo wrote:
also...

my last delivery from aussie post was a ceramic owl from usa. gogeous thing. it was thrown onto my cement porch. i heard it smash. went to the window. saw the delivery dude pick it up, shake it and walk off...

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Last year I heard a thud on my front wall. I could see out the front door at the time and it was the courier throwing my parcel from the footpath! I went out to confront him, and his excuse was he was in a hurry. A phone call to the local company and I've not seen him again.

The really infuriating part was, it was a signature on delivery item, so he stuffed up twice.