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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

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| 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? (28 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 (28 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)

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