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How not to ship a poster!

Just a reminder of how not to ship a poster...  Post your images...

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  • Yep this has happend to me unfortunately 1.5k worth of poster got butchered.. I was fuming!
  • Yep this has happend to me unfortunately 1.5k worth of poster got butchered.. I was fuming!
    Geeze that's no good Reggie - local or overseas?
  • It was Interstate, package was from Perth. The seller was in hes 80s and didnt pack in solid poster tube. Was part sellers fault and posties..
  • edited August 2014
    Medicine Cap with about 10 go rounds of tape...  The poster was fine.
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  • Pheew, I thought this was going to be about my packing.... ;)
  • Given you guys know what I collect....what's wrong with this photo.

    That's a standard size envelope on my keyboard btw.

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  • Oh dear...my guess is someone rolled it against the grain whilst still folded?!

    Probably no tube either?
  • Correct.

    The "tube" was the inside of paper roll you'd get from the supermarket.

     I've had this before from the UK. Sigh...

    They are not worth paying someone to get backed but when I get around to learning that process myself. these two I fix myself.

  • No wait...there was heaps of protection inside.

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  • Oh dear Matt so you abd David are saying that the daybill was folded and rolled from a left or right border rather than from top or bottom border ? Sorry I can't visualise and maybe I should not! Does that mean lots of creases as a result and perhaps tears? Sorry that this happened mate=
  • Yes from the left or right border. Folded then rolled against the fold line causing creases along both fold lines.

    I'm not too fussed, I'm too old to carry grudges........................fucking Kiwis!!!

    Present company excluded of course. :D


  • Ahhhh shesssh . They might as well folded it like a paper aeroplane. Wish me luck I've got some things coming from Italy!
  • Italians....watch out for food stains...
  • edited May 2015
    Matt said:

    Correct.

    The "tube" was the inside of paper roll you'd get from the supermarket.

     I've had this before from the UK. Sigh...

    They are not worth paying someone to get backed but when I get around to learning that process myself. these two I fix 





    Welcome to my world, the land of inept packers..

  • Now I wish I had of taken a picture of my one of worst.

    A while back (from the UK) I bought a long daybill which was stuck to a board.

    you could tell that it had been somewhat rolled already, very loosely.

    The seller decided in order to send it to me, he should roll it even smaller in diameter and just shove it in a tube.

    I am still amazed it has come up ok...daybills are fairly resilient...I have found if you give them enough time, they come good.

    But this one surprised even me!


    It's funny, when I used to buy way more stuff, I remember my postman coming to my door, and if had a dinged up tube would always say, sorry but it wasn't me I promise!

  • Wow, at least they could have left the paper on it for cushioning...
  • And that's why you don't buy posters from the land of small birds named after green fruits
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