This week two different shippments arrived of liquid laundry products neither was packed properly, but happily only one bottle from a box leaked.
First and foremost liquids must be shipped upright, preferably in the orignal shipping box which usually has dividers to protect/cushion. If not then something must be fashioned out of bubble wrap or whatever to protect the bottle or bottles form excessive movement and or other damage.
Next comes the box itself. The shippment from Germany was the usual nonesense that many eBay sellers pull, using any old cheap box they find. This can and often results in damage to the box and subsequently the contents from being shoved and pushed about during transport/delivery.
Case in point our local USPS parcel post (for large packages that aren't delivered by the postman), is female. She's a nice enough girl and so forth but lacks the upper body strength (obviously) of a male. This often means she drags or shoves about large boxes because she simply cannot lift them. Time and time again when large boxes arrive at our door one hears a loud "THUD" as she "drops" the thing in front of our door. On two occasions (one being the liquids that arrived today), contents were damaged. I can clearly see where one edge of the box is smashed and where contents leaked.
The first thing one does when any shipment containing liquids arrives is to open the box at once to check for damage and or remove contents to set them upright. If the damage occured late enough during transport (as when the aforementioned happens) if the bottle is rescued early enough it can lessen the amoung that leaks away.
If one reads buyer's comments from Amazon.com, Drugstore.com and or similar sites you generally find the most shipping complaints are about liquid products that arrived leaking/damaged. Some vendors will replace such goods, others leave one pretty much twisting in the wind.
First and foremost liquids must be shipped upright, preferably in the orignal shipping box which usually has dividers to protect/cushion. If not then something must be fashioned out of bubble wrap or whatever to protect the bottle or bottles form excessive movement and or other damage.
Next comes the box itself. The shippment from Germany was the usual nonesense that many eBay sellers pull, using any old cheap box they find. This can and often results in damage to the box and subsequently the contents from being shoved and pushed about during transport/delivery.
Case in point our local USPS parcel post (for large packages that aren't delivered by the postman), is female. She's a nice enough girl and so forth but lacks the upper body strength (obviously) of a male. This often means she drags or shoves about large boxes because she simply cannot lift them. Time and time again when large boxes arrive at our door one hears a loud "THUD" as she "drops" the thing in front of our door. On two occasions (one being the liquids that arrived today), contents were damaged. I can clearly see where one edge of the box is smashed and where contents leaked.
The first thing one does when any shipment containing liquids arrives is to open the box at once to check for damage and or remove contents to set them upright. If the damage occured late enough during transport (as when the aforementioned happens) if the bottle is rescued early enough it can lessen the amoung that leaks away.
If one reads buyer's comments from Amazon.com, Drugstore.com and or similar sites you generally find the most shipping complaints are about liquid products that arrived leaking/damaged. Some vendors will replace such goods, others leave one pretty much twisting in the wind.
