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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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Tue, 1 Dec 1998 00:57:59 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> James Seibert <james@vci.net> writes:
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> > A heartfelt plea,
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> > ---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.
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> Mmm, good point. Maybe turn a small LEGO box inside-out, and put another
> one inside that and use $.55 postage x2 ?
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> Or how about a bubble-pad envelope -- are those safe?
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> --Todd
A bubble pad envelope is fine, because it is thicker ( greater than a 1/4") and
machines can't process it. I know the postage is more, but piece of mind is
better.
--
See you over the event horizon,
James
P.S. Beware of naked singularities.
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