Package Mishaps

[Siko12]

Bought 500 Zero brand bullets off Gun Broker a month ago. Showed up on my door step looking like this, amazingly they were all there! Made several attempts to contact the seller but never heard anything from him.

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Good Lord!!! I think UPS and FedEx employees have been searching and stealing packages, Somewhere caught and it made its way to the news but i think there are others who haven't been caught yet.Sorry you had to experience that USPS misplaced my mailed twice last year, Never to be found.

 

[jpx2rk]

I've always done the "free shipping" or lowest cost shipping offered and received my stuff usually before the estimated date. And no damage yet but I probably just jinxed myself.

 

[coldboreshot]

Well, tomorrow I am expecting my Pelican V800 rifle case from Midway. I don't expect shipping or packaging damage to a shipping container...buy imagine the irony.

 

[hoz53]

Worst packaging IMO is Midway. I've gotten boxes with one largish item and a dozen small ones in a box twice as large as it needed to be, with 2 air pillows thrown in. Rattled more than a pair of maracas. I think I was lucky to actually find all the small items. That was before the carrier-induced damage.

I got an AR 15 gas tube by itself in a box at least 8” x 8” x 24” a couple weeks ago. I’ve gotten some damaged boxes in the past with stuff spilled out of containers floating around in them to. So far I’ve gotten almost everything and no damage so I guess I’m lucky

 

[Riesel]

OK, I'm in, ordered a couple of Trigger Tech triggers from a company in Missouri, as I recall, and they said "Good News, Your Item shipped today". That was July 1st. Every six days or so the package would move a little farther down the line and finally got to the San Antonio Post Office were it resided for four days. Went to PO, she couldn't figure out what was going on
and said that a "supervisor" would call me as soon as he was out of his meeting. Never called but it was up graded to "Out For Delivery" ............................for four freakin days.
Finally showed up and box was totally unscathed but I did think it had a bit of a tan.
Congress chastised the big Tech Company CEO's and really ran them thru the wringer. Yeah, Right, I bet those billionaires are shaking in their boots. Ha Ha
Congress is calling in the Post Master General next month for question. Ought to be a hoot cause he's working on his book title "10,000 lame Ass Excuses Why Your Package is
1 Lost, 2. Late, 3 Damaged, 4 Destroyed, 5 Stolen. Should be great TV.
Jimminey Cricket, am I getting cynical?

 

[Mark W]

I should buy a lottery ticket every time I place and internet order. Reading these shipping mishap threads always leave me feeling like the luckiest man alive

 

[Monte F]

Received a box of bullets as part of a RCBS rebate. The plastic Speer box was destroyed inside the taped up cardboard box. I did not bother to count how many actually made it to my mailbox and how many are still rolling around a postal facility somewhere.

 

[JTEX]

Sent a postal money order to a member here for a scope.....sent it the 22nd of July paid for priority mail....to be delivered on the 25th....last tracking of shows is on the 26th.......he still hasn't gotten it!

Election by mail they say?

I say NO THANK YOU!!!

 

[Deleted outa08]

Just today I received an email from that very Brownells in reference to a shipping accessment survey. I have had some incidents myself and I provided an honest assessment in the survey. But it doesn't stop there. I believe I see some strange marketing and sales strategies going on as well. Gunsmith account pricing is not as generous as in previous years. I don't see the special % off offers I used to see numerously and only after an order is placed, do I see an invite to save X% off an order, "after" I have just placed one. And it might be my imagination, but on holiday specials when the email goes out, the prices seem to turn slightly north for the duration of the sale. Amazing what a little computer programming can do. And the "SurePost" shipping is a concern. Lost items or some that seem to embark on a journey before it reaches the doorstep.
Hmmmmm.

Surepost sucks period.

 

[Hino895]

I bought a RCBS powder measure from a fellow member here last month.
Took three weeks for it to arrive.
Box was torn open on one end, measure was gone but the stand was still in the box.
Shipping sucks......

 

[LarryDScott]

I have been shipping priority mail
ever since going in business. I wont
say they are flawless, but pretty close.
Since the covid problem, I have only
had the one package that went to Hi. that took
several days to many, but it finally arrived.
If the entire postal service was as good as my
route carrier, the system wouldnt be in trouble.
LDS

 

[Catfur]

Once upon a time, Andrews Air Force Base called, something something president, something something snow storm. We need to fix our snow blower (the kind Airports use, not the ones you push around), because, you know they didn't have all year prior to do that. Well, they needed skid plates. Each is a steel brick something like 30lbs. They wanted something like 30 of them overnight (as if that much overnight isn't going to cost a pretty penny). They wanted them Airborne Express.

Airborne express managed to lose nearly a ton of steel bricks, they were turning up on people's front porches, delivered to random addresses. All I could tell the customer was "I shipped it how you asked for it, on your account, so it's your problem."

Something something president, something something snow storm...

 

[Siko12]

View attachment 1193990 I bought a RCBS powder measure from a fellow member here last month.
Took three weeks for it to arrive.
Box was torn open on one end, measure was gone but the stand was still in the box.
Shipping sucks......

I'd sent USPS an email if i were in your shoes, Sometimes back reviews do help back fix the problem. I remember when USPS had super fast delivery and close to zero damages. feels like a millions years ago.

 

[epc308]

USPS, UPS, and FedEx all carry packages for the other, meaning who knows how many stops in which facility/warehouse/shipping dock, etc.
I worked for a guy that shipped lots of small, but expensive parts, all through USPS. He bought insurance for a few years, till a couple items were lost in transit. He quickly learned that buying insurance and collecting on the claim are two different critters. He finally collected, but it took hours of time and reams of paperwork. He quit buying insurance, ate the occasional loss, then shipped a second item. He said it was way cheaper and far less troublesome.

 

[mtncwru]

He quickly learned that buying insurance and collecting on the claim are two different critters. He finally collected, but it took hours of time and reams of paperwork.

This tracks with my experience: USPS lost a set of bike pedals at one point, and I never did see the money for them. In addition to the paperwork it requires follow-up bordering on harassment with USPS, and even then there's no guarantee you'll get your money.

 

[epc308]

This tracks with my experience: USPS lost a set of bike pedals at one point, and I never did see the money for them. In addition to the paperwork it requires follow-up bordering on harassment with USPS, and even then there's no guarantee you'll get your money.

I bought a small item from eBay for $35.00. I received the package but no item, yet it contained the packing slip, invoice, and original packing material. I jumped through all the proper hoops for both USPS and the eBay *money back guarantee*.
With all the emails, paperwork, etc., it became a test of who was more stubborn.
I was.
It wasn’t the $35.00, it was the principle of the thing. I eventually got my money back, but it took nearly 8 weeks.
A win? I’m not so sure.

 

[Texas10]

Bought 500 Zero brand bullets off Gun Broker a month ago. Showed up on my door step looking like this, amazingly they were all there! Made several attempts to contact the seller but never heard anything from him.

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Postal delivery guys are just getting hammered with change in leadership and budget crisis. I can see how they might be getting a bit stressed out, and I suspect big boxes full of LEAD are just adding to the misery. Two recent shipments of Sierra bullets in the 100 ct plastic boxes all were broken in shipment, with bullets loose in the box. You know how well they package their bullets!

But a recent shipment of 500 SMK's via USPS made it fine, but it only came from two counties away. Another from KY also 500 SMK's made it fine too. Hoping the local USPS guy is able to maintain his cool, despite all the chaos. I got more stuff coming, and it ain't light, but it is expensive.

The times, they are a' changin'.

 

[KMart]

I just ordered the same thing yesterday, EXCEPT I ordered the cleaning rods directly from Bore Tech and the bullets are coming from Champions Choice.
The carrier is UPS and I am hoping for a "Happy Ending" when they arrive.

Update
22 ammo came in from Champions Choice in great shape. They removed the boxes from the original brick and placed them in reinforced cardboard boxes, 5 to a box, then inside another heavy duty box.

Pretty good packaging from Bore Tech as well, but one small glitch. They didn't put some type a protector on the jag end. The rod went through the thin plastic cap on the heavy duty tube and got boogered up. They say the bad part is replaceable. I'll find out Monday

 

[carlsbad]

Every picture in this thread is an example of inadequate packaging. While the inflated bubbles are light, they don't keep heavy things from moving around. I've quit buying bullets from forum members unless I really trust them. it is just too awkward to say "you didn't package them right, it's your responsibility." And don't get me started on insurance. It's not insurance if it takes me 10 hours of frustration to recover $100. I don't work for $10 an hour and work shouldn't be frustration. Tape is my insurance. Package things so they can't move around and tape them up.

That is the beauty of flat rate boxes. No need to use light weight packaging material. Stuff paper in there until nothing can move, tape it up real well, use a barcoded label and it will get there 99.99999% of the time. The exceptions are plane crashes and Truck wrecks with fire.

--Jerry

 

[pirate ammo]

I think I do a good packing job,haven't broke a Milky Bone yet.