What's the strangest shipping materials you've seen?

hammered

Today I received a stack of 1969 basketball cards shipped loose in a Tupperware container. A few years back a guy shipped me a small stack of cards wrapped in an old t-shirt inside a bubble mailer.

Got me wondering if anyone has seen other strange ways to ship cards?

thunderdan

I had a guy ship a few raw cards wrapped in toilet paper--unused, thank god.

No top loader, card saver, pennies. Nothing but cardboard and toilet paper.

miconelegacy

I've gotten the toilet paper, paper towel, the zip lock baggie. But I think the strangest was crumbled SMR pages. This person took the time to crumble up like 50 of these. Weird?

Tedw9

I once got an Ebay package using pink insulation as packing material.

onlyanumber

A PSA slab taped between two charity candy bars--like what the boy scouts sell. Yes the chocolate bars had their wrappers on them. No I did not eat them.

handyman

TAPE EVERYWHERE!! People need to use less of it I think

vladguerrero

a large dirty towel, it was inside a box protecting a brick of slabs, hey it worked...

Probstein123

once I received a package that some stuffed in used pillow as packaging....beyond gross...

miconelegacy

That is nasty Rick!

MBMiller25

I got a card wrapped in a diaper one time. Thank god is was a brand new diaper.

MeteoriteGuy

A fossil shipped in sand.

On the other end, whenever i shipped 10 lb. plus meteorites I buy coolers for them.

zep33

bag of weed

brendanb438

Also had the baggie that had weed in it prior used. Just waiting for the used condom.

You know one of you want to be the first on these boards to use a used condom in your shipping. Do it!

vladguerrero

<< <i>bag of weed >>



i forgot about it until now, but i had a card wrapped in tinfoil that smelled like weed, when I opened my PO Box I could smell it. why wrap a card in tinfoil and then send it in a bubble mailer? i could never figure it out, my best guess was that it was a paranoid seller trying to prevent the USPS scanners from determining what card it was, lol.

YogiBerraFan

I once got an autographed baseball in a dirty used sock.

twiley

Back in 2000 on ebay I bought a complete raw set of 1975 topps baseball cards. The set was in a set box then placed in a box of unused diapers as packing. Thank god the diapers were not used.

Edit add: I forgot this until just now. I bought a pair of concert tickets that were shipped in a box in a cleaned Hellman's Mayonnaise plastic jar. When I opened the jar to get the tickets out the inside of jar smelled like a rotten taco bell fart. I was gagging to say the least. Just thinking about it makes me want to lose my cookies...

digicat

Ya know, that's a fantastic use for unused diapers!

twiley

<< <i>Ya know, that's a fantastic use for unused diapers! >>



I have to agree that set never moved within the outer box. Seemed to work much better then peanuts and/or bubble wrap.

SDavid

If you include packing material, a card shop dealer and his employee told me some dude brought in a big moving box of modern junk cards and other worthless crap. While sorting through it, they found a used condom.

OK, it probably wasn't intended to serve as packing material, but still...

otwcards

<< <i>If you include packing material, a card shop dealer and his employee told me some dude brought in a big moving box of modern junk cards and other worthless crap. While sorting through it, they found a used condom.

OK, it probably wasn't intended to serve as packing material, but still... >>



I was wondering where I left that . . .

SDavid

well played.

ldferg

<< <i>
Edit add: I forgot this until just now. I bought a pair of concert tickets that were shipped in a box in a cleaned Hellman's Mayonnaise plastic jar. When I opened the jar to get the tickets out the inside of jar smelled like a rotten taco bell fart. I was gagging to say the least. Just thinking about it makes me want to loose my cookies... >>



LMAO!!!! Too funny

Brian48

An old sock. Worked pretty well actually.

MCMLVTopps

Twiley...THANKS FOR THE HUGE GRIN AND LAUGH !! Not the one about the diaper of course. Man, that had to be one nasty Hellman's mayo jar, or in the vernacular of my home turf of New England...wicked bad.

I hope the concert was good.

twiley

it was for a Rolling Stones concert

MCMLVTopps

Surely the smell at the Stones concert was more pleasing !!!

jasoneggert

When I bought those 1955 Hocus Focus cards from a guy off ebay, they came to me loose in a plain white envelope!

After I sold them (all except the Robinson) I put each one in a soft sleeve, then in a cut down top loader, inside a thick-card screwdown. Then all bubblewrapped in a box within a box. It was like fort knox. All insured for $5000. Shipping cost me about $60, compared to the 44 cents the guy spent sending them to me.

-Jason

Sean1125

I've had cards packed in a flatrate priority with paper towels before!

Not that strange but I never really receive much

Stadium1978

We had a poster company that used discontinued posters as packaging material. The most interesting one was an "autographed" Captain Lou Albano poster.

As far as odd things found in someone's collectibles that they were trying to sell us:

Marijuana bud
condom (unused)
$50 Walmart Gift Card (unused)
$50 Gas Gift Card (unused)
Family photographs
Rubber gloves (used)
Nazi collectibles

stuckinMA

1991 Pacific unopened wax packs

Sullyknows

<< <i>1991 Pacific unopened wax packs >>



Lol!

nearmint

Probably the strangest packing material I've gotten was several unused rolls of paper towels. They were fine; I used them to clean windows. I've also gotten clean t-shirt scraps (from a t-shirt printer, I believe), which had worked fine. The worst material I've gotten was finely shredded paper, which kicked up a cloud of paper dust when I pulled the cards out.

The strangest non-packing, non-card material I've received was red jelly, which was all over a large lot of PSA-graded cards. I guess the guy packed them while eating a messy lunch. My wife came in while I was pulling the slabs apart and wiping them off at the sink. She shook her head and didn't ask.

Stooge

I just picked up a couple of 1968 topps baseball Gem-MT 10's and the package was stuffed with newspaper dated September 11, 2011, so I will now get a chance to read what they write in another city, actually its the "Los Angeles Times".

Usually I just get the peanuts and the occasional paper insert.

Later, Paul.

jaderock

Since 1999, I've had things come in/wrapped in:

Fabric softner sheets,
Beckett Magazine,
4 pages of newspapers used as buffer for a 10 lb framed litho...the glass shattered, frame busted and litho destroyed,
crushed syrofoam takeout box,
cigarette box,
tissue paper with the kleenex box,
8mm tape 3 pack box (actually holds standard cards great),
audio cassette tape box

vintagechris

Baby diaper once(unused of course)

Morgoth

This



Came in this in a PWE.




Its only a 2 to 3 hundred dollar card.