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Post  nitroairplane Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:32 am

This pee wee just came.

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Okay you may or may not know this but I hate waste!
So I was like what is this when this package arrived for me I was saying to myself "I never ordered a car" and look it was a little pee wee.
Honestly this must be why they charged me $33 for postage of this engine.
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Post  John Goddard Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:31 am

Off ebay Indra if it's got a daft shipping amount it's usually Mr Ebays auto listing postage calculator
most vendors will recalc b4 end of listing or even after if you ask.
He said................ Smile
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Post  nitroairplane Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:35 am

I understand butan look at these boxes all or a pee wee .020!
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Post  Ivanhoe Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:40 am

nitroairplane wrote:I understand butan look at these boxes all or a pee wee .020!

I've had similar parcels off EBay suppliers, getting to the item is like a Christmas game of "Pass the Parcel"! and then you get the guy who drops valuable items in a padded envelope, usually with the address indecipherable, and they arrive in perfect order!
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Post  nitroairplane Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:41 am

Guilty as charged sorry about that Wilf Embarassed
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Post  SuperDave Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:50 am

Oh, come on! Very Happy

Shown is a USPS "flat-rate" shipping container that goes for $4.95 if it will fit into the provided box.
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Post  nitroairplane Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:29 am

It did.
Inside the larger USPS box was some wadding then another smaller USPS box then some more wadding an a little pre wee!
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Post  Ivanhoe Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:00 am

nitroairplane wrote:Guilty as charged sorry about that Wilf Embarassed

No, I was NOT refering to you, Indra! I meant stuff that comes from the States, it's either grossly over-packed, or not packed at all! lol!
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Post  Ivanhoe Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:06 am

John Goddard wrote:Off ebay Indra if it's got a daft shipping amount it's usually Mr Ebays auto listing postage calculator
most vendors will recalc b4 end of listing or even after if you ask.
He said................ Smile

NOT necessarily, I sent an enquiry to OK Engines to see of they still have bits for the Cub range of engines, they replied saying they had needle valves for $3.50, and shipping to me would be $20!!! Twenty dollars to send a needle valve in a piggin' envelope?!

You can't blame Mr EBay for THAT one!
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Post  SuperDave Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:06 am

Indra:

Let me say this.

I worked my way through college at a US Post Office postal handling facility so I know the complication and ineffiencies of processing packages of varying sizes and wrappings.

A standard-sized cardboard container is whole lot more managable than packages of varying sizes and wrappings. Have you noticed the USPS packages are not longer bound by string?

Guess why?

BTW, The original US Post Office was the predicessor to the modern US Postal Service (USPS)
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Post  John Goddard Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:30 am

And one of my customers use to be in Rowland Hill Street

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Post  Admin Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:45 am

Maybe a little "over packaging" but at least it was packaged. I have gotten an engine sent to me in a used "document mailer" (has no bubble or foam lining), engine just tossed in there with no wrapping or padding wrapped around it. It didn't appear to have any damage when I removed it from the packaging so I suppose I was "lucky".
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Post  nitroairplane Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:46 am

These engines are tough and from my experience not too much happens by being tossed around a bit apart from needle valves.
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Post  microflitedude Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:10 pm

Admin wrote:Maybe a little "over packaging" but at least it was packaged. I have gotten an engine sent to me in a used "document mailer" (has no bubble or foam lining), engine just tossed in there with no wrapping or padding wrapped around it. It didn't appear to have any damage when I removed it from the packaging so I suppose I was "lucky".

I had that once too. The prop stud was bent, but I do not think it happened in the mail. Luckily it was only a product engine.
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Post  Mark Boesen Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:22 pm

I won a mint, never started, new in box, early seventies Cox Corsair on eBay from a lady. The Corsair was complete decal sheet, starting kit, battery, fuel, wreches, etc.
She carefully wraped the box and placed it in a larger box... but never bothering to secure or pack anything inside the box! The decal sheet was messed up and the Corair had some extra scratches, but for what I snipped it for I wasn't to upset!
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Post  nitroairplane Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:24 pm

Yes my p40 was in a similar state to that for the very same reasons but that FLEW well Smile
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Post  PV Pilot Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:04 pm

Mark Boesen wrote:I won a mint, never started, new in box, early seventies Cox Corsair on eBay from a lady. The Corsair was complete decal sheet, starting kit, battery, fuel, wreches, etc.
She carefully wraped the box and placed it in a larger box... but never bothering to secure or pack anything inside the box! The decal sheet was messed up and the Corair had some extra scratches, but for what I snipped it for I wasn't to upset!
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