Ebay Packing Jobs

[Jim Leonard]

Pete Bartusek wrote:
> My favorite ebay packing job was a 5.25" disk drive I received, packaged in
> twigs.  Yes, a box, a pile of twigs surrounding a plastic apple 5.25" drive.

That takes the cake, although I have gotten several shipments of things shipped 
IN THEIR ORIGINAL BOX that have just made me wince (meaning, wrap tape around 
the whole thing, slap a sticker on it, ship).  One particular item was very 
small (early sound card) that could have fit inside a USPS priorital mail box, 
and I asked specifically that they double-box it because I was a collector and 
the box was important to me.  So what did they do?  They put the original 
contents inside a box, then put that box inside the original box, then covered 
the entire thing with shipping tape, then mailed.  When I saw it I literally 
started screaming since the item was relatively rare complete.

While the box is somewhat crushed, I have it displayable because I spent hours 
each day carefully peeling the tape off of the box, and only managed to rip a 
1/2 inch section.  (I tried a hair dryer but that always seems to just make 
things gummy and never really works for me).
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