On 9/20/2014 2:25 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
they use those awful packing peanuts, which fly all over hell when I
open the box. There should be a special place in hell for the low life
who invented them.
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Darn right about those pesky peanuts.
One of my clients owned a packaging / shipping store. He said
one should NEVER use peanuts with a large, bulky item like a radio,
because they shift and move during shipment, allowing the item
to shift inside the box. A once protected corner or edge can end
up on the outside edge and either cut or break through the box, or
be easily dented if the box is struck by some other object. He
uses an amazing amount of bubble wrap to pack a transceiver!
My packaging pet peeve is related to JB's - equally bad are the
Styrofoam panels Chinese vendors use to pack stuff sold on eBay.
They cut the panels to fit the package contents, but don't use the
proper cutters, so they loose a tremendous number of the little
balls that comprise the stuff, which get charged up with static electricity
and leap out of the package and irrevocably cling to everything
in the room as if held with Superglue. I collect fountain pens, and
you would not believe the fallout from even a small package
containing writing instrument. Like spilled milk, there is more
mass (mess) when spilled, than there is before the spill !
Bubble wrap... great stuff.
That form-fitting, expanding foam TT uses that molds to the
shape of the product is the best of all !
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