When you mail a quilt
#12
I do have to say I am a little shocked by the idea that someone intentionally messed with the address. For what purpose? The package got where it was intended. Postal workers do not get to keep un-deliverable mail. Especially in bad weather, packages get wet, wet ink smears on wet paper.
#13
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Join Date: Oct 2011
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My son and wife had a new baby while they were in Iceland. I mailed a baby quilt and new clothes. I also put in toys for the older boy, When it got to them, it was filled with bags of hard candy (so it weighs the same?). It went military mail from New York. I was so dissapointed.
#15
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Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Southern United States
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That's wild smearing, almost like it was done intentionally by someone. Glad your package arrived. I always cover the address label with packing tape, put the address on at least two sides and place an address inside the box. If they want a description, I say it's just a blanket. I think a little precaution goes a long way.
#16
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: PA
Posts: 678
The more tape you use the less someone will try to rip the box open. Also insist on a tracking number & watch it on line daily. If it goes missing go to your post office & insist they find it. I had dog collar tags that went missing & my Post Master found them after 2 months.
This one will shock most of you:
My friend in Sweden sent me a collectors plate. She wrapped it in paper, placed it in a paper bag & stappled it shut. That's it...no other pagkaging, nothing. I was shocked when it arrived in one piece. Yet I have received packages, sent from barely 100 miles, away smashed. Go figure.
Last edited by Feather3; 01-19-2016 at 12:54 PM.
#17
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Lincolnshire, UK
Posts: 175
I would like to add something... when mailing a quilt abroad make sure they have a post box and their city hasn't switched them over to a "Community Mailbox". I had never heard of such a thing until my friend in Winnipeg told me how unhappy she was being switched over and about the problems with receiving packages. Now I send things to her by courier rather than using the postal service.
HettyB
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#19
Only address one side of the package. Postal workers are on deadlines and must work quickly. If a worker picks up a package to sort to the correct bins and happens to pick up a side with the address but no postage because it is attached to the opposite side. They may assume the parcel has no postage and put it in Return for Postage bin which delays it. But do use the packing tape on the address and put the destination on the inside, too. Then when it ends up in the Dead Parcel dept. and they open it, they will be able to rewrap and put a new address label on it.
#20
My son and wife had a new baby while they were in Iceland. I mailed a baby quilt and new clothes. I also put in toys for the older boy, When it got to them, it was filled with bags of hard candy (so it weighs the same?). It went military mail from New York. I was so dissapointed.
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