Your most interesting packaging job? (sent or received)

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  1. Hanzo

    Hanzo Initiate (0) Feb 27, 2012 Virginia

    Trying to be a beer advocate I brought beer trading to a video game forum I frequent. Got a box in today that was pretty....interesting. I've always had the mantra of pack any way you want as long as it arrives safe. This tested that ideal.

    This box, sent through USPS doesn't look suspicious at all....

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    Inside a note, apologizing for the packaging material and assuring me everything was washed. Wrapped around everything...yes, that's a bath towel.

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    Inside the plastic bag under the towel the beers were wrapped in old socks, with shrink wrap over each.

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    And in the bottom for padding along with some newspapers, was some old shirts.

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    But the haul arrived safe and sound...and that is really all I care about. So I say bravo for ingenuity. As for the contents.

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    So how about you guys, what's the strangest/most unique box you've sent or received?
     
    #1 Hanzo, Oct 3, 2012
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  2. Czar_chasm

    Czar_chasm Initiate (0) Jun 20, 2012 Michigan

    This is a little embarrassing but whatevs

    The only box I could find big enough to fit a 12 bottle shipper I got was way too big. I ended up duct taping empty 2L bottles to the outside of the shipper so it wouldn't bounce around. I should have just ordered one online but had a growler to send out so wanted to get it out ASAP. My trading partner was nice by saying "it was interesting" but everything made it there safe haha.

    Anyway, I don't think I can top socks but I doubt many people have sent empty 2L bottles as filler.
     
    #2 Czar_chasm, Oct 3, 2012
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  3. glitchedmind

    glitchedmind Initiate (0) May 8, 2012 California

    Be thankful you didnt get the "red" towel. :wink:

    I got some motorcycle parts from ebay very similarly packed. With three styrofoam peanuts taped to the axle. I just shook my head and laughed.
     
    #3 glitchedmind, Oct 3, 2012
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  4. yummybeer

    yummybeer Zealot (588) Apr 14, 2012 Pennsylvania
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    Kudos for the effort on that packaging! But Hanzo, you should really send all those clothes back to the MN/WI trader who sent them. It's going to be getting pretty cold there soon!:wink:
     
    #4 yummybeer, Oct 3, 2012
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  5. BearsOnAcid

    BearsOnAcid Pooh-Bah (2,239) Mar 17, 2009 Massachusetts
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    I'm surprised I didn't see this haul in the worst disaster thread with those beta hands.
     
    #5 BearsOnAcid, Oct 3, 2012
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  6. Steimie

    Steimie Maven (1,428) Jan 7, 2012 Michigan

    You'll reuse those packaging materials in your next box you ship out, right?
     
    #6 Steimie, Oct 3, 2012
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  7. Hanzo

    Hanzo Initiate (0) Feb 27, 2012 Virginia

    That will be hard to do when I am wearing the stuff.
     
    #7 Hanzo, Oct 3, 2012
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  8. Hanzo

    Hanzo Initiate (0) Feb 27, 2012 Virginia

    Nope, this wasn't set up here, though he may indeed post here. (apparently not under the same name)
     
    #8 Hanzo, Oct 3, 2012
  9. biglobo8971

    biglobo8971 Initiate (0) May 6, 2010 Minnesota

    those aren't hands
     
    #9 biglobo8971, Oct 3, 2012
  10. Duff27

    Duff27 Pooh-Bah (2,552) Feb 10, 2010 Illinois
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    Sounds like the start of a good LIF/BIF to me.
     
    #10 Duff27, Oct 3, 2012
  11. Patrick

    Patrick Initiate (0) Aug 13, 2007 Massachusetts

    lol didn't you post about some dude's wrinkly hands in the new england forum?
     
    #11 Patrick, Oct 3, 2012
  12. BearsOnAcid

    BearsOnAcid Pooh-Bah (2,239) Mar 17, 2009 Massachusetts
    Pooh-Bah

    Yeah, not many pictures to comment on here other than beer
     
    #12 BearsOnAcid, Oct 3, 2012
  13. Etan

    Etan Initiate (0) Jul 11, 2011 Wisconsin

    I got a box from a Texas trader packed with some towels and a dirty white poncho with a McDonald's logo on it...that was pretty weird.
     
    #13 Etan, Oct 3, 2012
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  14. mikecharley

    mikecharley Savant (1,214) Nov 6, 2008 Pennsylvania
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    Excellent topic Hanzo. I actually lol'd (for serious) when I saw the socks on the bottles. I'm sure my trading partners say wtf when they see some of the shit I throw in there (usually whatever (paper) garbage is lying near me goes in (receipt from beer, grocery bags, paper bags, six pack holder, cardboard scraps, etc.).

    One time I did receive a dirty dish rag in a trade box. I figure in 75-80 trades, you gotta get something weird every once in a while.
     
    #14 mikecharley, Oct 3, 2012
  15. ChadQuest

    ChadQuest Initiate (0) Mar 4, 2009 Illinois

    One of my next boxes is going to go out packed inside a class B hazmat suit from my fire dept. It has only been used a little bit, and not in any hazardous environments.
     
    #15 ChadQuest, Oct 3, 2012
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  16. Hanzo

    Hanzo Initiate (0) Feb 27, 2012 Virginia

    That actually would be really awesome to get as packiing material, and I would wear it.
     
    #16 Hanzo, Oct 3, 2012
  17. mattsander

    mattsander Initiate (0) Feb 3, 2010 Canada (AB)

    When I can't find any suitable bubble-wrap, I fill my trade boxes with 'mixed cotton rags' which are shredded recycled t-shirts (and occasionally undies). Floral patterned dresses for little girls are a pretty creepy thing to wrap around a bottle of fou foune imo.
     
    #17 mattsander, Oct 3, 2012
  18. MaxSpang

    MaxSpang Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2011 Ohio
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    Not on this forum, but one time I got a video game from a guy on another forum (Super Smash Bros. Brawl, obviously) that was packed in a Cheezit box. No marker or anything. It was awesome.
     
    #18 MaxSpang, Oct 3, 2012
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  19. bryanole27

    bryanole27 Initiate (0) Jun 24, 2011 North Carolina

    Everybody who receives it should sign it and add their location to it to see where it goes:slight_smile:
     
    #19 bryanole27, Oct 3, 2012
  20. FishPondManager

    FishPondManager Initiate (0) Feb 28, 2012 Colorado

    This thread delivers. Now i know what to do with all those half eaten socks our border collie leaves around the house.
     
    #20 FishPondManager, Oct 3, 2012
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