No wonder couriers get a bad name

[bricol]

I went through airport security last year, put my keys and mobile etc on a tray to go through the x-ray machine while chatting to a nice lady, I walked through the "people scanner" gate no problems or alarms, then one of the guards noticed one of my pockets wasn't empty. I was as surprised as him to find my pocketful of loose change hadn't set off any alarms - my fault for being so easiliy distracted
It does make you wonder how secure our "high security airport checkin procedures" actually are

Don't wonder too hard or you might not get on a plane again . . .

I've been asked questions about stuff I've been bringing back, mostly for work, and even quite soon after 9/11, they would take what I said at face value and walk off to throw it on the belts to take it away, with absolutely not idea what I was talking about . . . the one I remember was large "magnetic dosing pump" . . .

Although thinking about it, until quite recently I used to regularly get randomly selected, randomly, for random extra security checks . . . ie every transatlantic flight I took out of the UK . . .

On a very early morning flight out of DFW to LAX, some security bloke decided to take my suitcase apart and swab it for everything known to man . . . he got a full load of well used sock aroma . . . which didn't seem to trouble the sniffer machine

 

[Domdom]

Well, better than normal service from Yodel today. At least it wasn't quite leaking all over the place

Edit, just to add the sender felt one wrap of bubble wrap round the tin would protect it from couriers. More bad packaging than careless couriers.

 

[pptom]

Received this radiator Tuesday, obviously damaged in transit

Yes, it took a minor hit in delivery, but the seller decided to ship it loose in a cardboard box. Fortunately they've sent another, properly packaged this time, but really, what do you expect? It's cost them a second delivery and a return of the damaged one.

Proxy thing was a pattern part too and I've had to take the angry grinder to it in order for it to fit. Not a happy retail experience.

 

[marlinspike]

I won an eBay auction for a single coin. It was only £4. The seller sent the coin loose, not in/on a card, in a thin white envelope with a printed address that had 'ebay' in big letters on it. Needless to say, what arrived was an empty envelope with a small, expertly done cut on the bottom seam, just big enough to slip a coin out of. Got my money back of course and reported it to Royal Mail, but honestly, who sends a loose coin in the post on its own.

 

[Morrisman]

Yesterday I received 2 x 1 metre lengths of 1 1/2” CDS steel tube....each wrapped in several layers of bubble wrap and then inside a cardboard box. No chances taken, obviously.

 

[Fastdruid]

Yesterday I received 2 x 1 metre lengths of 1 1/2” CDS steel tube....each wrapped in several layers of bubble wrap and then inside a cardboard box. No chances taken, obviously.

Can never be too careful. Lets not forget the ParcelForce motto "Lose an elephant, break an anvil".