Need to VENT!!!!!
waxpack
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I got four items this morning in the mail. All are PSA graded items. Three of the four items have CRACKED cases.
1. $685 card little bit of bubble wrap and padded mailer.
2. $20 Tall Boy in padded mailer.
3. Best one... five 1962 Sherriff Coins shipped like a bag of rocks.
People need to relize the mail systems DO NOT CARE if items are marked fragile or photos do not bend.
Sorry for the crying but my 2 and 4 year old boys wouldn't listen to me and wifes at work.
Jeremy
1. $685 card little bit of bubble wrap and padded mailer.
2. $20 Tall Boy in padded mailer.
3. Best one... five 1962 Sherriff Coins shipped like a bag of rocks.
People need to relize the mail systems DO NOT CARE if items are marked fragile or photos do not bend.
Sorry for the crying but my 2 and 4 year old boys wouldn't listen to me and wifes at work.
Jeremy
Trying to climb the 1954-55 Topps Hockey ladder for the second time.
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<< <i>I got four items this morning in the mail. All are PSA graded items. Three of the four items have CRACKED cases.
1. $685 card little bit of bubble wrap and padded mailer.
2. $20 Tall Boy in padded mailer.
3. Best one... five 1962 Sherriff Coins shipped like a bag of rocks.
People need to relize the mail systems DO NOT CARE if items are marked fragile or photos do not bend.
Sorry for the crying but my 2 and 4 year old boys wouldn't listen to me and wifes at work.
Jeremy >>
Yes it does... LOL I feel better already. Thank you
I agree some sort of collection center. I watched the girls at my local post office throw stuff in the big bags. Who knows what goes on behind closed doors. I think of the first ACE VENTURE movie, remember UDS coming threw.
I'm suprised about the luck with the PSA cases. I thought the bubble wrap + padded mailer was the normal method (albeit, I would never put that high value of a card in something like that.).
I'd be interested in learning how everyone ships their items, and also how everyone would prefer to have items shipped to them.
In the original post, was the head banging directed at the way the item was protected during shipment, the post office handling, or both?
Rodney
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
Steve
<< <i>You should always use at least one piece of cardboard, slightly bigger then the slabs, when shipping PSA cards. This cardboard will take 95% of the mailing beating. Doesn't mean someone won't throw your package and damage the case/card, but it will help a lot. >>
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A minimum of two-pieces of HEAVY cardboard on each side of the slab
is the best method. Three pieces is better.
It's NOT foolproof, but pretty close.
Yeah.
I ship any card with a value over $50.00 priority, in the priority $4.95 flat rate box. Card is bubble wrapped and boxed. I don't think a card should slide around in the bubble mailer also.
What about all the boxes we get from PSA with are cards in them, I reuse them for shipping. I think a box is the best method for shipping items of value.
I wouldn't assume a card in a cracked holder will be reslabbed at the same grade. I had one card I sent in like that and got a call it would be dropped a grade. It was about a $500 difference, which I had to eat.
At the very least I'd remove it yourself and submit it raw. I"m 99.9% sure the card was bent when they were removing it from the damaged holder.
Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's
with that said, buyers also have a responsibility to check and see if the seller is someone who regularly sells graded cards, if not, send a nice message asking that the card be shipped "properly" wording it however you feel is appropriate.
I've sold lots of high-end Gretzky cards over the years and there are two people who send messages to remind me to ship accordingly...at first I was a little ticked about it...but they both have ended up being very good repeat buyers and I understand that they probably have been burnt before, much like waxpack was here.
If it's an expensive card (>100) I ship it in a box (not the dinky flat-rate priority one)...cards under that which I have extras of go in bubble sleeves w/ envelopes.
<< <i>Sorry waxpack for what happened...
with that said, buyers also have a responsibility to check and see if the seller is someone who regularly sells graded cards, if not, send a nice message asking that the card be shipped "properly" wording it however you feel is appropriate.
I've sold lots of high-end Gretzky cards over the years and there are two people who send messages to remind me to ship accordingly...at first I was a little ticked about it...but they both have ended up being very good repeat buyers and I understand that they probably have been burnt before, much like waxpack was here.
If it's an expensive card (>100) I ship it in a box (not the dinky flat-rate priority one)...cards under that which I have extras of go in bubble sleeves w/ envelopes. >>
Your right, From now on I will ask for high dollar items to be shipped in a box. I had a few buyers ask me to ship accordingly also...ticked me off myself but no problems with the deal.
<< <i>I always ship everything in a priority box wrapped in bubble wrap. Never had a problem. >>
Wouldn't it be easier to put the bubble wrap INSIDE the Priority Box?
Oh, the scourge of the misplaced modifier...
Steve
Label/Receipt Number: xxxx xxxx 8230 0976 4128 44
Class: First-Class Mail®
Service(s): Delivery Confirmation™
Status: Dead Mail / Sent to Mail Recovery Center
Your item could not be delivered or returned to the sender. It is being forwarded to a USPS mail recovery center where it will be processed.
Detailed Results:
Dead Mail / Sent to Mail Recovery Center
Processed through Sort Facility, January 20, 2010, 12:18 am, PHOENIX, AZ 85043
Electronic Shipping Info Received, January 19, 2010
My post office said...it sounds like the package came open.