Tom
Union,#2Consumer Suggestion
Tue, February 10, 2009
I own a well known packaging company. We ship via all carriers. Regarding the packaging described for the heads, red flags are flying everywhere. If the heads were that valuable, why send them together?? Newspaper for fill? Squishy rolled foam? BUBBLEWRAP?? Use some common sense for a second! Doing your intense 'math', how much force does it take to pop a bubble in the bubble wrap? Right...good job...virtually nothing. Now what do you have when the bubbles are popped? Correct again! A plastic bag. Now with the squishy foam, newspaper with no resilience, and movement caused by the empty popped bubble space, the entire package self destructs under it's own weight. Does that really take a rocket scientist to figure out?? It sounds like someone was being penny wise and packaging it like a hillybilly (no offense Dad...) and did not use industry standards to package. If those same items were shipped as packed through the postal service, they'd be destroyed too. There's a reason USPS doesn't ship that weight....yet you said the other package was about the same weight? Hmmmm....interesting. I can tell you right now that no carrier will pay for items packaged the way you described. Industry guidelines for all carriers was violated. (not to mention common sense.) Oh, and your vocabulary suits the packaging quite well.