This is how u package items!

[Mr.PFloyd]

guys this should just be reference. this is 1_slo_92 turbo that i just sold today and i decided that i should make a thread about it. it will be shipped tomorrow
edit. i know it didnt necessarily need a thread but i wanted to show off my 1337 skillzorz

 

[born2drv]

coming from canada, eh?

isn't mississauga the paki capital of canada?

 

[Stanzaspeed]

just looks like a box to me...


but ueah, i hear ya on the good packaging thing. receiving broken toys is not fun!

 

[1_slo_92]

Oh god no. Bad idea LoL what shipping company is it getting shipped through? I used to work for abx (which is now DHL) and if it said fragile it was thrown harder *sigh* hope it's heavy enough so it won't be beat up too bad

 

[Clip]

yep. there was a thread about this a while ago. i think IJ said that the labels 'fragile' and 'do not bend' were taken as a challenge.

 

[Mr.PFloyd]

ah man u guys are buzzkills haha. when my 2 guitars got shipped form the states they didnt get damaged. and its heavy as hell and its has bubble wrap ftw!

 

[Mr.PFloyd]

coming from canada, eh?

isn't mississauga the paki capital of canada?

thats brampton Mississauga is run by the polish hehe

 

[Clip]

good use of packing tape though; ive gotten more than a few packages with just one layer of tape that's broken through in several spots, pisses me off.

 

[1_slo_92]

i'll make a vid on how good it is when it arrives. And how long it takes me to open it bare handed

 

[born2drv]

i'm j/k with you.... i used to live in mississauga before moving to los angeles ... i was in one of the condos near the town center by square one... my supra was actually parked in the underground parking there for 6 yrs before i towed it all the way here and started restoring it

 

[jdub]

The key to a good pack job is keep it tight! If the parts cant move inside, it take real abuse to hurt them. Heavy stuff...I'll double box

 

[Mr.PFloyd]

i'm j/k with you.... i used to live in mississauga before moving to los angeles ... i was in one of the condos near the town center by square one... my supra was actually parked in the underground parking there for 6 yrs before i towed it all the way here and started restoring it

wow thats cool! im like 10 mins away from there on the 403. u ever plan on visiting again?
i got a bunch of stuff to offer to whomever pays me a visit! :naughty:
http://www.supramania.com/forums/showpost.php?p=333709&postcount=36
oh and who ever will respond to this, get your mind out of the gutter! hehe

 

[born2drv]

i've moved 3 yrs ago and only visited twice... and that was once to get some stuff, and the other time to get my supra LOL i don't think i'm going back anytime soon, sorry

you should move to the US tho, best decision i ever made! i love california.

 

[KINGPIN33]

thats brampton Mississauga is run by the polish hehe

Polish people??? Which part are you living in? Its ran by orientals such as myself and east/west indians now. That's in the mavis/eglinton area though.

 

[hottscennessey]

I work at a UPS Store, people write "DO NOT TOSS" on it.. I don't know what they were thinking. These shipping companies don't pay attention to fragile stickers.. and they're trained not to. This is because the package should be packed well enough that it shouldn't need special handling. Just a rule of thumb. If it wont survive from a 4 foot "drop", I'd consider re-packing it.

 

[supra90turbo]

LOL exactly.
My brother was going to ship out a door handle, and it wouldn't fit in the box. He stretched the box, and it was almost sticking out.
I started hassling him on his shipping job, and asked if he thought he should find a bigger box.
he said no

so i held it about 5' off the ground and told him "what do you think is gonna happen if i drop it?"

"i dunno, probably break it.. so don't drop it"

"what do you think UPS is gonna do?"

"um..."

"right. so repackage it in a box it fits in"

lol



I always package things I ship so they'll survive getting thrown against a wall pretty hard... shipping companies aren't easy on things.

 

[xarewhyayen]

i hear the sound of a horn tooting. oh thats just cryo tooting his.

 

[hottscennessey]

LOL we get the most ghetto packing jobs.. I'll have to take some pics at work.

 

[ForcedTorque]

I do shipping for a living (mainly UPS)...........and occasionally have taken Air packages to there dock after hours. Package handlers get too much blame for the damage. In my small 200,000 person town, the conveyor system they have is very brutal. Ya, drivers roll heavy packages sometimes, but they don't do all the damage you see.

BTW..........UPS suggests you cover all seems with tape, not just where the top and bottom close.

 

[Mr.PFloyd]

Polish people??? Which part are you living in? Its ran by orientals such as myself and east/west indians now. That's in the mavis/eglinton area though.

well tht area. wait till you move closer to milton area and brompton right near the outskirts. i think they did a study and 200000 of the 650000 were polish :aigo:
hehe and Ryan, i am tooting my horn hehe. it was shipped out today