It should require training and a license to use packing materials...

Just venting...

Slab under the fold of a knocked down USPS flat rate box

Wrapped in brown craft paper of some kind with the UPS logo

Tucked into a FedEx (or maybe UPS) clear document envelope (the kind you put the airbill in and then stick it on the package (and with the USPS/eBay pre-printed label inside)

All wrapped in a layer of clear packing tape


No, it wasn't the hope diamond. Just a BU 81S Morgan.


I get it - it arrived safely, no damage, and nobody is getting into the package without some effort. Plus s/he didn't pay for the packing materials. And neither did I ('free' shipping).

But still, probably spent more in gas and time running around stealing shipping materials from several companies all to save $1 on a bubble wrap envelope from the dollar store.



OK, vented, feel MUCH better

 

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Maybe they just did what I do from time to time...used what they had on hand. I save a lot of the bubble mailers I get for this exact reason. Cut into quarters, they make the perfect "pocket" for a slab. Tape it shut, stick it in a bubble mailer and you are done.

I would much rather a package be overdone to excess than underdone to excess.

 

Ha! Sounds like the shipments that go out of my office. My warehouse guys throw all the old boxes, bubble envlopes, etc. in a corner and use them all when they re-ship something back out. I seen the UPS man pick up more than one US Mail shipping boxes from my loading dock.

 

I've had some packages that practically required a scalpel to get to the coin. I hear your frustration. At least the coin arrived safe and sound

 

I would never complain about a over rapped package .
Here's one that was lost in the mail for three weeks and ran over by everything possible .

But since it was over rapped, everything turned out fine .
Not a scratch on the coin .

 

Nice!!
This is exactly why I’m guilty of over-packaging!!
I’ll use either recycle packing material I’ve received my purchases in, or when shipping Priorty Mail envelopes, I use 2 of them. I fold the item tightly into the first envelope, then tape it to the inside of the mailing envelope.

 

you might want to edit the address off that.

 

I did .
Thank you too .......

 

One gripe I have about packaging is when it is taped so heavily that I have to take a knife to it. I am always concerned about damaging the contents when I do this, especially with currency. I have one person I buy from regularly who puts all coins in 2x2 plastic ziplocs (no 2x2 holder), rolls the, and tapes them tight. I have so far avoided a slip which hits the coin but it could so easily happen. I have one like that in front of me right now which cost $100 and I am try to pry the tape loose without a knife, so far with no success.

 

If it was packed in such a way that your coin was delivered unmolested, why not just be happy about it?

 

Just to be clear, [you're complaining] about a WELL packed item that arrived in
100% condition.
Just Shaking My head.....thinking back to the one that came sliding around in a flat rate box.
Get out that sharp knife, but DON'T let the right hand take off any skin from the left.

*- Edited- the verb originally used is not exactly CoinTalk-compatible, even when misspelled. ~RWS/"LM"

 

I try to recycle my shipping supplies as well. I often wonder what the buyer on the other end thinks when they get it. I am just trying to keep it safe.

 

WOW What happened to this shipment?

<— envelope?

 

I've worked in high volume shipping and receiving. We bought and sold to and from some of the largest players in a very large industry section. Reusing packing materials is extremely common practice. If a company is not reusing every single piece of packing material from incoming shipments (which hasn't been destroyed obviously), they are simply throwing money away.
I've also seen the condition of a wide variety of packages arrive from UPS, USPS, fedex and DHL. There is no amount of packaging which is actually adequate for shipments that might be damaged. Those coins are in the same hoppers as encyclopedias, barbells, etc. People who simply toss the coin in a mailer and ship are nuts.

 

Whelp, still preferable to a $4K coin shipped in a plain white envelope in just a flip, with no return address, and your name in sharpie spelled wrong, with a tire track on it...That was what I got...haha

 

I used to ship all my paper money to my customers between the covers of old books. I would put the bill inside a semi-rigid holder, and place the holder between some heavy covers cut a little bigger then the rigid holder . this worked fantastic , the covers resisted and bending of folding . All items arrived safe and sound . I used to buy boxes of discarded books from garage sales ,library deletes, and the dollar rack at used book stores. So if you ship currency this is a great way to protect the bills in transit , the coins I sent I would send in a 2 x 2 and then place cardboard over top of the 2x2 to protect the plastic area in the coin holder. This seemed to work well . Never had any complaints.

 

Wow

 

It was a cherry, think I paid under $20 for it.