♪♪ A Fedex man between here and Rockville...

this is why I over tape the top of the box and double box it, really make it hard for them to get in.

 

double boxing is good for a few reasons, one, it protects the contents further. and two, it might keep a nosy fedex person at bay if they have to open a second or third box depending on how you set up your boxes.

 

Why not just report it to Fedex?

"I shipped a package, and when it arrived it was missing some of the contents. My tracking number is xxxxx"

The person gets fired, and gets charged for a felony. They don't open any more boxes in transit...

Seems easy to me.

 

Is there a possibility that one bottle broke, and you should be thanking your fedex man for repacking it, and not reporting it? Not snarky, just possible.

 

I highly doubt a worker risked their job for a single bottle of beer. Even assuming they are enough of a beer geek to know what KBS is, KBS is not exactly so rare that it's worth losing a job over.

More likely it broke and was re-packaged.

I usually tape the shipping label over the seal, so if they want to open the box for any reason, they'd have to go through the hassle of ripping off the old label and printing out a new one.

 

If I were a beer-geek shipping company employee, I would not waste my time over a KBS.

 

I'm gonna go with the one bottle broke and they took it out and forwarded your box anyway scenario. Much more likely than a fedex guy, who happened to be one of the very small minority fedex workers who is a beer geek, opened your box, examined all the bottles and only took the kbs. Kinda a longshot. Even if this happened, fedex isn't going to spend the time trying to find out which employee opened your box they would just tell you sorry or tell you not to ship beer.

 

I just sent out a box on Monday (Brien, you're getting your wood back) and I find a huge benefit of double boxing comes from the fact that you can just put a decent layer of paper/bubble-wrap around each bottle, and then you stuff the box so full of bottles nothing moves, the outer box with paper/peanuts between it and the inner box is all you need to keep impacts from hitting the bottles, so you can pack more bottles safely in a smaller box.

 

I'm gonna have to try this method.

 

It might indeed have broken and been reboxed, but don't discount the idea that some shipping employees are expert at picking out the boxes containing enjoyables and helping themselves as they know they will get away with it.

 

so do you not tell them you're shipping liquid? I'm getting rdy to ship my first so I don't want to do it wrong.

 

I like the one from the other thread better.