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Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: John W E on August 04, 2012, 06:35:20 pm

Title: Packaging that is over the top
Post by: John W E on August 04, 2012, 06:35:20 pm

Hi ya have a look at this

You wont believe it - but sent for 1/96 scale chain from ebay - from our neighbours over in France - bearing in mind - length of chain on 0.4 metre - so sent for 2 pieces - look at the box it came in  %% %% %%

aye
john

Title: Re: Packaging that is over the top
Post by: dougal99 on August 04, 2012, 07:09:05 pm

Careful, you don't want to start a chain reaction.  :embarrassed:

Title: Re: Packaging that is over the top
Post by: Tug-Kenny RIP on August 04, 2012, 07:10:47 pm

          {-)  {-)  {-)

Chain Mail



ken

Title: Re: Packaging that is over the top
Post by: John W E on August 04, 2012, 07:13:02 pm

take these chains from this box and set them free
I bought them from ebay cant you see
But the box they came in was big
So take these chains from this box and set them free...... {-) {-) {-) {-)

Title: Re: Packaging that is over the top
Post by: wullie/mk2 on August 04, 2012, 08:30:47 pm

Nothing wrong with that box....at least it did,nt get lost in the post.....unlike having a small package disappear,into a big posties sack,that just might have a hole in it.......some people are just not happy.....i,d hate to hear your cry...if they had never arrived.....

Title: Re: Packaging that is over the top
Post by: Tug-Kenny RIP on August 04, 2012, 09:50:56 pm

It would be interesting to know the postage charged.   %)


ken

Title: Re: Packaging that is over the top
Post by: John W E on August 04, 2012, 10:00:00 pm

Postage:

£4.99 - Standard Delivery from outside UK

aye
john

Title: Re: Packaging that is over the top
Post by: wullie/mk2 on August 04, 2012, 11:26:12 pm

For they twa wee packages.....what a rip off....but...it might be that French thing....they just never forgave the English,for beating the crap out of them at Crecy,Agincourt,and Poiters......and then bailing out on them in 1940.....how do i know all this....well i worked in France in 1990,and heard it every day....the English are this, and that,...when i said,"I speak English"...they said Ah, but you are Ecosse,..it is ok, {-)

Title: Re: Packaging that is over the top
Post by: Martin (Admin) on August 05, 2012, 12:07:02 am

Quote from: Tug---Kenny on August 04, 2012, 07:10:47 pm

Chain Mail

 {-) {-) {-) {-)

Title: Re: Packaging that is over the top
Post by: ACTion on August 05, 2012, 08:37:56 am

We once had a phone SIMM card delivered by FedEx in a cardboard envelope which I swear was 18" x 12". The card itself (maybe 8mm x 12mm) was sellotaped to the corner of a sheet of A4 paper inside.
On a more serious note, I reckon that at least 95% of the contents of our waste bin every week is packaging which we can't recycle e.g. polythene bags, flimsy containers for meat, fruit and veg. I sometimes do feel like taking it back to the supermarket and leaving it for them to dispose of.
DM

Title: Re: Packaging that is over the top
Post by: Timo2 on August 05, 2012, 08:41:46 am

Hi David

  By law I think you can take it back and they have to deal with IT.

  Timo2