To date, while for the most I've received parcels handled by flawless shipping, the USPS has recently done the "typical statistical errors", though likely by the seller/shipper's negligent packaging...
To wit:
My Pat Boone CHRISTMAS IS A'COMIN', had a carboard wrapped around the cover, w/o any bubble wrap or additional padding & when pulling the record out of the cover, what I thought might have been a Dot Records Mini Catalog (which I'd received before) was the other half of the vinyl that split! The record sadly despite trying to play the two halves bound w/ glue went directly into the wastebasket... And complaining to the seller only brought me an offer to send him back the record for a refund (in which case I was NOT inclined to send something which may have all along been broken (it was only $2.00) better & more protected than how I'd gotten it... Luckily I managed to snag a better one, in that it was at least more protectively packaged, though still wonder how that 1st copy would have PLAYED; an awful lot of plopping on the turntable bet. Thansgiving & New Years produced a lot of popping...!
It was not like Amazon to send me a CD loosly thrown in a plastic bag instead of bound tightly in a cardboard box, but they did! This was a CD in a digipak, & had a booklet between the cardboard covers of the CD packaging w/ a mark along the sides of the pages & cover likely to have a hard-start in premature wear & tear w/ the handling from the playing I would give it, to catch up w/ a couple similar items that were a mere few years older, yet gotten more properly shipped...
Do NOT order from MOVIE MARS! A tip-off of their product fraud is having several copies of "New" items, yet the caviat is simply their practice of burning CD's, duplicating original covers & native packaging via. "Xerox copying machine processing" and nothing ticked me off more than the booklet (actually a single-folded in-lay card) having unevenly cut edges! That and the "new" shrink wrap is very loosly put on! (I subsequently just bought a good, used copy of the same thing, hence getting a more reasonable copy of "the real deal" in still ideal condition, though am a bit wary of a couple Christmas CD's that I have coming that are only a mere $1; used but hopefully not counterfeit...!)
And how DID my daughter get a Thomas The Tank Engine Pajamas in the size she just grew out of when her aunt in Arizona, specifically sent her a Minnie Mouse dress?! (Wonder how some BOY must feel receiving that?)
OK, one GOOD THING: a very rare Pat Boone '45' on Capitol that I'd ordered, came w/ a "free Merle Haggard '45' on MCA", which I'd noticed first, just to find what I DID order in the package next... Someone out there get an EMPTY BOX?!
-- Dave
-- Dave
