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Re: Don't send them in envelopes (Re: Bring Your Minifig To Work Day)
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Mon, 30 Nov 1998 04:03:54 GMT
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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
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