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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;xCoin-Hoarder&#039;92x, post: 2278901, member: 72758&quot;]The first and only time I decided to ship some &quot;heavy&quot; packages to a buyer I was afraid I would have to open a claim. (didn&#039;t have to in the end, but it was scary.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Buyer purchased quite a lot of coins from me, and I split this purchase into 3 boxes, 1 large flat rate box and 2 medium flat rate boxes. The large box weighs around 50 pounds and the other 2 roughly 30-35 each. (mind you, they allow up to 70 lbs. as the limit for Priority Mail...)</p><p><br /></p><p>I made sure my item was properly packed. I used up nearly 3 full rolls of bubble wrapping and an entire roll of strapping tape for these 3 boxes. (about $15 worth in supplies at USPS). So chances here of anything coming loose or stolen is near zero, so I thought.</p><p><br /></p><p>I ship these items out, they leave Oregon and somewhere in the middle of this trek, all 3 of my boxes scan &quot;VISIBLE DAMAGE&quot; as I checked out the usps tracking page to see their progress. Luckily for me I insured the most valuable box out of the 3, just in case the buyer doesn&#039;t receive all of it. Thankfully he did.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was told the boxes looked extremely banged up and there were openings. lol But the item was received in full and he was satisfied. Imagine what kind of disaster this could have turned out to be if I hadn&#039;t packed so much bubble wrapping and used as much tape? Hmmmm..</p><p><br /></p><p>They need to handle their packages better. Or here&#039;s another question, why have such a ridiculously high limit for weight if you&#039;re just going to batter them around to hell? (my heaviest box was about 20 lbs. below their limit) I&#039;ve also googled my issue to see if other people had problems sending or receiving heavy flat rate boxes, and there are other horror stories told out there.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, when buying/selling simple and light items, everything goes fine. I have had about a 99% success rate with USPS as far as small items go. But I guess I&#039;ll try to avoid ever shipping or receiving anything too heavy for the average person to lift.</p><p><br /></p><p>To finalize my post; I never recycle old/used boxes for shipping my items out. I picked up fresh stacks of USPS boxes the same day they went out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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