 | | Don't send them in envelopes (Re: Bring Your Minifig To Work Day) —James Seibert
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| | | 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 (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Don't send them in envelopes (Re: Bring Your Minifig To Work Day) —Todd Lehman
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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 ? Or how about a bubble-pad envelope -- are those safe? --Todd (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Don't send them in envelopes (Re: Bring Your Minifig To Work Day) —James Seibert
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| | | | | (...) 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. (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Don't send them in envelopes (Re: Bring Your Minifig To Work Day) —Tom Stangl
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| | | | AFAIK, padded envelopes are hand processed, so they should be fine. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer | (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Don't send them in envelopes (Re: Bring Your Minifig To Work Day) —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | (...) 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? (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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