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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I had a vendor ship me a hard screen protector for a phone in a plastic bag envelope. It arrive shattered because it had zero stiff packing around it.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 12 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

UPS in my area offers the service of adding ventilation holes to any packages that I receive. Once, the product even fell out, and I received an empty mailing tube. Good times.

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

UPS or the UPS store? Also there are some morons that do not know how to pack a box, like some Amazon employees or other shippers. There are also some that do not care if their product even makes it to the destination. I saw someone horribly seran wrap a tote box, those 12 parcels were held together by dreams.

[–] lividweasel@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

UPS excels in making square packages round, and round packages square.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

do they add ventilation holes after asking you, though?

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 7 points 10 hours ago

No, it's standard procedure.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

sometimes it's not even ups's fault.

we once received a plain sheet of packing paper, about twice the size of an a4/letter sheet, with a shipping label affixed to it.