DPD!

[PhillipM]

Have to agree, there's a lot of people just wing it and pray with packaging. It's in a van full of goods, getting shunted around in traffic, often stacked with a dozen other boxes on top.

 

[Fastdruid]

Model kit packing is something I always half expect to see damage on given fragile contents and thin cardboard boxes, often lucky to have a single thin sheet of polystyrene each side. Had a lot come all the way from China with no damage as yet.
Even had a 15kg high pressure compressor sent air from China with bugger all packing and it still survived.
When something is made of balsa parts it behoves them to pack it well and mark it suitably.

Some couriers seem to take anything packed properly and marked "Fragile" as a challenge...

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I see stuff like that almost every day, it's just very poorly packaged.
Amazes me the amount of people who send something wrapped in nothing more than brown paper or a thin bag but write FRAGILE all over it, like that's going to protect it!

In days of yore it did.

But today, no it is jsut a word the forign lads don't understand.

 

[Rannsachair]

Both DPD and Hermes have been fine out here in the countryside. I do feel for them when they deliver to me at 7:00pm and still have several more drops to do.

I am in the countryside too, Hermes have been worse: managed to lose a Saab Crankshaft and took forever to get compensation.

 

[fizzy]

Bad packing accounts for 99% of damage!
I have yet to have anything damaged I have sent out - that includes loads of laboratory glassware I used to sell. You could throw one of my parcels down a flight of stairs and it would survive!

 

[fizzy]

Can anyone explain this to me? LED bulbs.
Someone took time to wrap like that baffling me

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Can anyone explain this to me? LED bulbs.
Someone took time to wrap like that baffling me

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A random guess.
The contain the glass if it was fractured.

 

[Hood]

Can anyone explain this to me? LED bulbs.
Someone took time to wrap like that baffling me

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It is so you can make your own DIY hat

 

[fizzy]

A random guess.
The contain the glass if it was fractured.

Plastic

 

[fizzy]

It is so you can make your own DIY hat

Maybe they glow under xray? But can't see that with led.

 

[ronan]

It is so you can make your own DIY hat

STOP READING MY THOUGHTS ! These Lizard people are really nosey !

 

[PhillipM]

Maybe so they still get through shipping if the glass is broken - LEDs have some faintly radioactive compounds. Although it's so low I wouldn't think it mattered, even the box would stop it.

edit: Although I'm pretty sure it's only some specialised ones - remember those odd old ones that used to glow faintly for a while even when off? Can't see any modern ones having the same compound on a quick search. Maybe just a nutjob in packaging

 

[Wozzaaah]

In days of yore it did.

But today, no it is jsut a word the forign lads don't understand.

If an item is fragile then it needs to be packaged accordingly, simple as that.

 

[ajlelectronics]

: Although I'm pretty sure it's only some specialised ones - remember those odd old ones that used to glow faintly for a while even when off? Can't see any modern ones having the same compound on a quick search. Maybe just a nutjob in packaging

Nothing to do with radio activity and everything to do with induced power and the fact that LEDs are very low power.

 

[PhillipM]

In days of yore it did.

But today, no it is jsut a word the forign lads don't understand.

You must be joking, I did some time at Parcelforce while I was at Uni, it was 99% british lads working there at the time and they all used to play "See who could kick the fragile parcels the furthest down the warehouse"
Nothing to do with race or origin, you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

 

[fizzy]

Maybe so they still get through shipping if the glass is broken - LEDs have some faintly radioactive compounds. Although it's so low I wouldn't think it mattered, even the box would stop it.

edit: Although I'm pretty sure it's only some specialised ones - remember those odd old ones that used to glow faintly for a while even when off? Can't see any modern ones having the same compound on a quick search. Maybe just a nutjob in packaging

The LEDs that used to glow were usually down to stray inductance or capacitance not radioactivity.

 

[fizzy]

Nothing to do with radio activity and everything to do with induced power and the fact that LEDs are very low power.

Lol beat me to it!

 

[ronan]

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

You must be joking, I did some time at Parcelforce while I was at Uni, it was 99% british lads working there at the time and they all used to play "See who could kick the fragile parcels the furthest down the warehouse"
Nothing to do with race or origin, you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

So lack of dislipine and respect then.

What were the senior staff doing?

 

[bricol]

In days of yore it did.

But today, no it is jsut a word the forign lads don't understand.

I'm sure it still would - engage one courier/driver to transport one package to its destination - and pay the fee for it which I would guess would be a bit more than a couple of quid.