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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1306297, member: 19065"]Referring to the box in a box in bold and green above:</p><p><br /></p><p>Ken, this idea occurred to me too. The presentation boxes would have been protected from shifting and coming open during transit and the contents of each box unable to become unseated exposing coins from their capsules. However, what I really thought about the box in a box was that the Mint should have done this so customers can receive each individual set, wrapped in its own Mint sealed box, the way rolls are shipped in those generic white card stock boxes, date and time stamped with the product code on them. This way if customers wanted to submit one or more sets for grading they could do so after opening the Mint shipping container, removing their invoice and separating sets they wished to keep OGP or not submitted to TPGs. It boggles me that some products are shipped this way from the Mint and others are not. It's extremely inconsistent and careless that the Mint didn't cut down the boxes as you suggested to fit the contents more appropriately as well as allowing these fine sets of coins to be essentially naked inside the shipping container. It proves the Mint's lack of commitment to the collector/customer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, do you happen to know the term UPS drivers use to refer to guys who skip addresses? It was happening to me on my street in Brooklyn earlier this year and I was going bonkers trying to catch the guy. My street has multiple drivers and I caught up with two different guys who told me to call into the route manager and report that an article I was after was being "sheeted". I think that was the term. Well, the thing that killed me is the guy was doing this to the point that 3rd and final deliveries were being made. Boy did that get me steamed up. i caught it right in time though and the route manager got it on the right vehicle for the next delivery before it could get returned to the sender.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1306297, member: 19065"]Referring to the box in a box in bold and green above: Ken, this idea occurred to me too. The presentation boxes would have been protected from shifting and coming open during transit and the contents of each box unable to become unseated exposing coins from their capsules. However, what I really thought about the box in a box was that the Mint should have done this so customers can receive each individual set, wrapped in its own Mint sealed box, the way rolls are shipped in those generic white card stock boxes, date and time stamped with the product code on them. This way if customers wanted to submit one or more sets for grading they could do so after opening the Mint shipping container, removing their invoice and separating sets they wished to keep OGP or not submitted to TPGs. It boggles me that some products are shipped this way from the Mint and others are not. It's extremely inconsistent and careless that the Mint didn't cut down the boxes as you suggested to fit the contents more appropriately as well as allowing these fine sets of coins to be essentially naked inside the shipping container. It proves the Mint's lack of commitment to the collector/customer. Also, do you happen to know the term UPS drivers use to refer to guys who skip addresses? It was happening to me on my street in Brooklyn earlier this year and I was going bonkers trying to catch the guy. My street has multiple drivers and I caught up with two different guys who told me to call into the route manager and report that an article I was after was being "sheeted". I think that was the term. Well, the thing that killed me is the guy was doing this to the point that 3rd and final deliveries were being made. Boy did that get me steamed up. i caught it right in time though and the route manager got it on the right vehicle for the next delivery before it could get returned to the sender.[/QUOTE]
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