Shipping overlays 101

OK, so I win a fairly rare overlay on eBay for my Cheyenne project and
anxiously await it's arrival. As each week passes I get a little more
anxious. Finally I hear the tell tale honk of the UPS truck and run out to
see him slowly bringing a package to my door. Now at some point it may have
been a flimsy cardboard mailing tube, now it is just a flat mess. Realizing
that there is still some hope, I rip it open only to find 5 large creases up
and down the otherwise minty overlay. I don't mean folds, I mean creases.
The kind that no matter how long you press it under books, they never quite
go away. So who's fault is it? UPS for crushing it or the seller for
putting an expensive item in a cheap a** tube? Sure I could have refused
it, but the darn overlays are so hard to find its not like I can just ask
for a replacement. Ugh. The point? If you ship an overlay that can be
rolled up in a tube, don't use a cheap round one. Buy a square tube or even
use the triangular tube from the post office. There is a good reason why
they don't use the round anymore...

Chris M

Not just flat, but in a box!

I have had plenty shipped flat that the entire cardboard package got
bent in half, only to F-up the entire thing.

Or the ones where they are shipped rolled up and while rolling it, it
is started wrong. So that you get a F'd up crease in that.

Or, the ones that get rolled up only to take forever before you get it
and the paper backing starts to get loose and then creases galore.

Ship them in real boxes, damn.

Sorry for the rant, got F'd over about 10 times so far, between CPOs
and sideart.

-Tim



Chuk wrote:
> Don't even ship them in a tube. Ship them flat. I've shipped tons that way
> with never a problem.
>
>
> "cnlmoore" <cnlmoore.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3aadnSriSo7BSxDZnZ2dnUVZ_t-dnZ2d@comcast.com...
> > OK, so I win a fairly rare overlay on eBay for my Cheyenne project and
> > anxiously await it's arrival. As each week passes I get a little more
> > anxious. Finally I hear the tell tale honk of the UPS truck and run out
> > to see him slowly bringing a package to my door. Now at some point it may
> > have been a flimsy cardboard mailing tube, now it is just a flat mess.
> > Realizing that there is still some hope, I rip it open only to find 5
> > large creases up and down the otherwise minty overlay. I don't mean
> > folds, I mean creases. The kind that no matter how long you press it under
> > books, they never quite go away. So who's fault is it? UPS for crushing
> > it or the seller for putting an expensive item in a cheap a** tube? Sure
> > I could have refused it, but the darn overlays are so hard to find its not
> > like I can just ask for a replacement. Ugh. The point? If you ship an
> > overlay that can be rolled up in a tube, don't use a cheap round one. Buy
> > a square tube or even use the triangular tube from the post office. There
> > is a good reason why they don't use the round anymore...
> >
> > Chris M
> >