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It's like tracking animals in the wild - sit back and ooh and ahh at the migratory patterns.

Sounds like USPS might want to consider partnering with Uber for the actual "delivery" part.

Often courtesy of the USPS.[/QUOTE]

Sounds like who drives the truck is the least important part of the logistics chain.

A non-update update on my low-stakes ($17) shipping issue (shipped on/around June 10): no change, USPS still shows that the label has been created but they're still awaiting the package itself.

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The kind of guy who says “you can’t get there from here,” ironically failing to get here from there.

Good to know, thanks.

This is a shipping question, not a packaging question, but I couldn't think of a better thread in which to post it.

Something is going on right now, and I wonder if any of you have seen this...

I think many sellers, Amazon included, think books are like phone books: the words won’t fall out, so why protect? I don’t think these people are readers (let alone collectors).

Kudos anyway on using a very underused word (fucknut) at least.

One of the USPS' most impressive features is their extensive line of answers to virtually every question - so many to choose from!

What's the mindset there - "I said the book was in good condition now, for me; I said nothing about when you get it"?

Packaging is the book world's version of "common sense isn't common."

Underscoring the needlessness of bad packaging, I just received 2 books (a set) that I bought on eBay, and I'm pretty sure these things would've survived if they'd been dropped from a helicopter:
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That's a great opening.

As for VJ Books, my only experience is that my wife bought my copy (technically second hand) of CD's Salem's Lot from them. As it was a gift, I didn't see all of the packaging, but I know it came in...

"VJ books" as in vjbooks.com?

Question is: what does it smell like?

Also: I never knew that Ann Coulter appeared on a Special K box - I guess you do learn something every day.

FWIW, the extra question marks in this thread's title remind me of the way I asked the question "why?" in a desperate whisper, after having been tapped in the groinoids by a leaf-blower wielded by my...