Think you're packing well? This is what your package goes through

[ooak-tammy]

This a USPS video showing the process of getting a package from point A to point B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX16-52bHvg

[mistwomandancing]

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gramophone-georg wrote:

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I'm pretty sure all shipping company employees take those as a challenge. The other fun one is "do not crush". Inevitably any box I get from any carrier will be caved in right where it's been marked 'do not crush'.

I refuse to mark anything "Fragile", "Do Not Throw/ Crush" or "This Side Up". I just pack it assuming all of the above will happen. I can't tell you how many parcels marked "This Side Up" have been dumped on the porch that side down. If it's not marked, it's always label side up at delivery so if I want one side up that's where I put the label.

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Or as Newman tells Seinfeld about those envelopes that say Do Not Bend:  "Ha.  Do not bend... chuckle, chuckle... just crease, crumple, cram... you'll do fine."

[crowell_artcollection]

Thats a great video....thank you for posting the link. Very cool ! 🙂

[faithandbutterflies]

I couldn't resist sharing my first thought which was "I learned this watching Sesame Street." I have never forgotten where at letter goes afternit leaves my mailbox.

[femmefan1946]

Do you Americans really have mailboxes at the end of your driveways where any passerby can rifle through them?

Wow.

We Canadians complain bitterly when our doorstep mail is replaced by locked Community Boxes.

If we get a package a Notice is in our small locked letterbox, with a key to the big boxes at the bottom.

Of course, from time to time someone takes a crowbar to one of them.

[lemarcheaupuces]

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@michael_atw wrote:

Shipped perhaps 15000 items in 10 years - can count the number of breaks on one hand.

As a buyer, I get $1000 packages shipped without boxes, without any packing protection, wrapped in paper or trash bags.  I wish I could neg every one of those people 25 times each.  

Not sure what people expect - do people expect USPS to hand carry packages across massive distribution warehouses, one by one?  

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i agree with you...

not sure what people expect.

the beginning of the video says;

the US postal service delivers half of the world's mail.

again half the mail of the whole world.

i mainly ship bbl mailers.

i mean there is not much paper, padding that protects the mailers and what is inside.

i shipped about 1000 of them in the last year.

i don't remember the last time i had a broken or lost item.

i have also received and in good condition everything i have ordered.

i feel the machines and the whole process work pretty well.

i think it is impressive...

[southern*sweet*tea]

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@femmefan1946 wrote:

Do you Americans really have mailboxes at the end of your driveways where any passerby can rifle through them?

Wow.

We Canadians complain bitterly when our doorstep mail is replaced by locked Community Boxes.

If we get a package a Notice is in our small locked letterbox, with a key to the big boxes at the bottom.

Of course, from time to time someone takes a crowbar to one of them.

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Those types of community boxes wouldn't work well where I live. Our closest neighbor is approx. a half mile away. Yes, I have a regular rural type mailbox. Been out here almost 20 years and have never had a mail theft problem. We have lost a few mailboxes, though. Once the county hit it with a mower and knocked it over. (they brought us a new pole and concrete) and twice we've lost it to that great rural pastime, mailbox baseball.

[lloydsteventaylor]

thank you for posting this. i am amazed a what the postal does. 

[rolenboy01]

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@femmefan1946 wrote:

Do you Americans really have mailboxes at the end of your driveways where any passerby can rifle through them?

Wow.

We Canadians complain bitterly when our doorstep mail is replaced by locked Community Boxes.

If we get a package a Notice is in our small locked letterbox, with a key to the big boxes at the bottom.

Of course, from time to time someone takes a crowbar to one of them.

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We do have them in certain neighborhoods but not all.

[michael_atw]

I had one of my feet run over by a forklift once. 

Same story; managed to sell it for quite a bit less than I would have in original condition.

[michael_atw]

We don't have those because public sector unions in the government don't allow such a job-killer. 

They'd rather pay $25 an hour to the dopes running the mail to the boxes so that those people can just lazily stuff them in any box they find, anyways. 

I see them coming soon though as the USPS is broke.

Insofar as theft, Americans seem to be not concerned about stealing other peoples' mail 😉