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Re: Don't send them in envelopes (Re: Bring Your Minifig To Work Day)
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Date: 
Fri, 4 Dec 1998 18:21:46 GMT
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AFAIK, padded envelopes are hand processed, so they should be fine.

Todd Lehman wrote:

James Seibert <james@vci.net> writes:

A heartfelt plea,

---Warning---, I am a technician that has worked on Postal machinery. The
Postal service uses machines to sort their mail and would crush and mangle the
minifigs. Normal flat letters are okay, but a minifig would catch in the belts
and rollers resulting in the minifig broken into ABS dust pieces. I get called
to repair machines when people send refrigerator magnets, pens, pencils,
jewelry, etc. in the mail and the articles in question are crushed beyond
recognition between heartless steel rollers.

So I beg you, I don't want to go to any minifig funerals. Please send them in a
small, solid, stamped, self-addressed box.

Mmm, good point.  Maybe turn a small LEGO box inside-out, and put another
one inside that and use $.55 postage x2 ?

Or how about a bubble-pad envelope -- are those safe?

--Todd

--
| Tom Stangl, Technical Support          Netscape Communications Corp |
|      Please do not associate my personal views with my employer     |



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  Re: Don't send them in envelopes (Re: Bring Your Minifig To Work Day)
 
(...) I've sent elements - but not minifigs - in a normal envelope with no crushing blows. Under what circumstances is this an issue with which to be concerned? (25 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Don't send them in envelopes (Re: Bring Your Minifig To Work Day)
 
(...) Mmm, good point. Maybe turn a small LEGO box inside-out, and put another one inside that and use $.55 postage x2 ? Or how about a bubble-pad envelope -- are those safe? --Todd (25 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)

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