Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: JoJoDapyro on December 17, 2014, 07:07:43 pm
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I got a text from my wife on my way home that said "I hope all your rock is ok". I was a little perplexed. I got home to find the following. Is this a normal occurrence?
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I have gotten a couple like that before, but usually my rock shows up fine.
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I can understand a little wear. This is a few feet past a little. I can see a ripped box, or crushed corners. I wonder if anything is missing.
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The only time I have had rocks sent to me they showed up the same way as yours.
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Maybe you should ne nicer to your mail man. ;)
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Most cardboard boxes are not up to shipping heavy rocks. And if there is any way for them to shift around in there, it will only find a way to burst out.
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Having not ever received rocks in the mail before, I guess I didn't know what to expect. I guess if I send more I'll tape the crap out of my box!
And Tyke, you should know, I shovel a path across my lawn so the mail man doesn't have to walk through the snow, or double back around (I live in the last house on a dead end). Just kinda bummed that the big point is broken.
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I have gotten a lot of boxes of rocks in the mail, and all the boxes have had some damage, but not that bad. I have had some breakage of rocks. All the boxes I have gotten were taped all over. If you ever mail any points, wrap then in a few layers of very stiff cardboard and then tape that together so the point cannot slip out. Then fill the extra space in the box with crumpled paper or bubble wrap. That has worked well for me.
WA
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I can't make any points yet that anyone would want, so I am safe for a bit! >:D
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Loos like a care package from cowboy, i've got several from paul and he knows how to ship them, and the box is usually full Joe
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Well there aren't to many people willing to steal rocks from mailed packages so that shouldn't be much of a concern
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A care package indeed. The kindness of the members of this site still amazes me. I know people in my everyday life that wouldn't do the things you guys do. Thanks again for the awesome atmosphere here.
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JoJo, you would be surprised who would like to have who's point. On another forum we have a name drawing/pairing every 3 months and then each pair exchanges points. I have a beautiful case of trade points from those trades, and if you look close, a lot of them were made by beginners. I'm proud to have each one of them.
WA
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Sorry to see that but that box was not even close to being packaged correctly. Not nearly enough tape.
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well now i know what box is was that crushed my arrows >:( ;D ;D ;D ;)
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When I ship rocks I use the Post Office's free tape and wrap it till it's indestructible.
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When I ship rocks I use the Post Office's free tape and wrap it till it's indestructible.
Yea he does! I dulled 2 razor blades getting into a Mullet rock package. :o
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A few years ago I found a rock source on the desert in New Mexico. I mailed back several large flat rate boxes of that stuff back home to Michigan.. Not one box was opened or damaged. As mentioned, I taped the crap out of every box. I use so much tape you can't see the cardboard.
My mail lady is top shelf and we take care of her at Christmas time. One day she hit the doorbell with a large flat rate box of obsidian spawls. She said what ever is in here is broke. I told her that was OK it was supposed to be and then I explained to her what it was. She gets a kick out of what I get sent to me but not so much when I told her one day that snake skins were in the box.
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Was going to mention that myself a two others use to open up archery ranges in Iraq and Afghanistan. We sent countless bows, arrows and targets to Soldiers and Marines. The last base that I set up was at Camp Hansen, Afghanistan on a Marine base. I packaged up two recurves in a box and sent it off. Lt Penny contacted me and laughed that an IED couldn't have damaged the bows.
If it important enough to send it is important enough to do it right.
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And if it came from a dealer, then I would contact them as it was shipped improperly and depending on how they respond find a new dealer.
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Sounds to me like you have a problem at your po-distribution center, paul is one of the best guys around and like i said i've got four maybe five boxes of stone from him and the boxes were just fine, that box looks like it was ripped open
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That is the conclusion I came to as well. My mailman is good. I know things happens, and my trade arrow was left in the gutter, but I get it. Everyone has an off day. This is clearly a situation that someone didn't care. Paul used as much tape as I do. We will see on the next one.
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Last year my old knapping buddy from Yakima sent me a one of those big PO boxes that they say if it fits it ships! It contained slabbed obsidian from the buttes. He wrapped each bundle of slabs in cushion and taped them individually. The box as well as the slabs were taped to the max! When I picked it up at the Post Office the box sounded like a box of broken glass and that is exactly what it was! There was only a very few slabs that had not been broken. When I called my buddy and told him what had happened he went to his Post Office and found they have a drop shoot for the boxes and the boxes have to fall several feet down to a container in the basement! I know that box represented a lot of time and work with the trip to the Buttes and all the time and effort it took to cut the slabs. Made me sick to lose all those precious rocks! Joe
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I always have the package, no matter what it is marked fragile
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Wolf I guess it is a crap shoot when mailing off packages. I went to the rock show in Arizona last year and found a guy selling 5" by 6" slabs of obsidian for a $1.00 a slab. I mailed home two boxes of the slabs and not one broke or cracked.
One thing I did also was wrap 6 slabs together tight and then bubble wrapped them before I put the into the box.
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I wrap the same way as JEB and the slabs I ship usually make it. I wrap slabs so they can't move and can be dropped from the Space Shuttle.
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I dont believe you eddie prove and send me somthing :laugh:
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Let me get off of six, twelves or later and I'll fire the saw up.
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I was kidding mullet i have unwrapped some staves from you ;)
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And i think they struck again auggie sent me a stave which is lost in limbo some where between colorado and utah it left colorado and. Never made it to utah so i called the post office and the only advice they had was to wait two weeks in case it shows up it must be a utah thing
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I had a similar problem. Some Friends came up to visit me in Montana, and wanted some real estate mags. So I packed up five or six, and put them in a big envelope, and taped the flap shut, and sent it. Well it arrived, but it was just part of one magazine, and the envelope was ripped to shreds, and just crammed in his mail box. Not even a plastic bag to hold what was left in the remnants of the envelope. No note or anything. Just, "well the address is intact, so here ya go". I worked part time a long time ago in the post office, in West Palm Beach, and they were not real concerned about the fragile sticker on boxes, the box just got tossed into the canvas bin, with all the other boxes. They all received the same non caring treatment. Seems that "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective" is working at the USPS now. It is aggravating to receive something like that without the slightest apology, or even an attempt at explaining what possibly could have happened. So much for pride in the workplace. But it is after all, a Government job, and I guess that it was good for Government work.
Wayne