@smabrouk wrote:
@traveling.2007-2017 wrote:
Lately I am receiving packages from sellers covered all over with tape. It has taken me up to 30 minutes & 2 broken finger nails to open these packages. The object is not to make it difficult for the buyer to open a package that you ship to the buyer. This tape does not make the package safer from damage or breakage. I keep a list of these sellers as I want to make sure that I never buy from them again. Please learn to pack & ship properly. Is anyone else having this problem?
While I understand your frustration at it taking so long to open packages (not to mention the broken finger nails) due to use of a lot of tape, the use of a lot of tape is far better than the use of very little tape.
Last year, I received a package with VERY little tape for which my purchase, a beautiful Dooney AWL handbag, was visible and ready to fall out of the box. Except for the care taken by USPS to transport the box -- but, unfortunately, not retape the box to close it -- the handbag would have been lost. The workers at my Post Office held the box for me and they, like me, were frustrated by the seller's lack of care in taping the box.
When I contacted the seller, the seller stated that he was leaving for vacation he and thought that a single piece of tape on the top and bottom of the (large -- too large for the handbag) box would suffice. IF there had used more packing materials to prevent the handbag from moving/shifting around within the (too large) box and IF the seller had been careful to use new, clean tape and to press the tape firmly on the box THEN the box might have stayed closed. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Due to the excessive size of the box and the lack of packing materials, the box bucked and the tape -- which was not properly affixed to the box initally -- did not hold the box closed; of course, the shifting of the handbag (which I was surprised did not acquire scrapes/scratches while moving around within the box), due to the sparse use of packing materials, did not help.
After having the too-little-tape experience, I would take the too-much-tape experience any day. I would rather have to take a lot of time and care to open a carefully-packaged, much-taped box than to have the open-and-item-ready-to-fall-out package experience ever again.
Be glad for what you view as excessive use of tape as the alterative may result in your not receiving your item.
So, to those sellers who choose to use a lot of tape -- KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK as there are buyers, like me, who GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORTS to ensure that we receive our items! : )
Had a similar experience that could have ended in disaster!
Bought a beautiful, large, round picture in frame, glass front. When the item arrived in a rather large box, the end of the box was open and it was only by the grace of God that the framed picture was still in the box!
I don't know HOW it managed to stay in there. New seller, who was mystified as to how that happened because she thought she put enough tape on it.
No, not much and with such a heavy, wood and glass item, it just didn't last long before it gave up.
I may not be happy when it takes me a half an hr to open a package, but I remember the ones that were not packed well, and you hear that sickening sound of broken pieces hitting together, and I just persevere. I'm glad to get an intact item, rather than a broken one.
