This is what happens when you use a bubble mailing envelope to mail something FRAGILE

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Surely that'll buff right out?

They probably didn’t do that. Most likely there was a crack already in it that the seller didn’t tell you about and either the heat/humidity change or just the jostling in the truck caused it to snap.

They are plenty incompetent...

but this isn't on them.. You don't put fragile items in a bubble wrap envelope...even a cardboard evelope would have been better

Because bubble wrap and envelopes are going to save the world. Right?

I think the worst thing that I had come across was I ordered three lightbulbs online. Had the tabs on the end instead of the screw in type. Lo and behold, they sent the damn things in a padded envelope. What could have possibly went wrong?

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Originally posted by mojojojo:
They probably didn’t do that. Most likely there was a crack already in it that the seller didn’t tell you about and either the heat/humidity change or just the jostling in the truck caused it to snap.

I was the one that mailed it so I know it wasn't cracked.

Also I did put a piece of cardboard in the envelope, but obviously that didn't help. Replacement will be in a priority box. It's for a friend of mine and he has said he will pay for it. Didn't matter to me if he paid or not as he has helped me many times over the years.

lolcdruser

You put a compact disc in an envelope without a jewel case and expected it to survive? Cardboard bends. That's on you.

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Originally posted by Orguss:
lolcdruser

You put a compact disc in an envelope without a jewel case and expected it to survive? Cardboard bends. That's on you.

You're right. I made a mistake. Will change title.

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Originally posted by mojojojo:
They probably didn’t do that. Most likely there was a crack already in it that the seller didn’t tell you about and either the heat/humidity change or just the jostling in the truck caused it to snap.

Still butt hurt?

And to keep the thread going ---

Reminds me of the guy who mailed out a large envelope containing a photograph and wrote on the envelope: "Photograph, do not bend".

Someone at USPS wrote:" Yes, they do", and stuffed bent it into a small mail box.

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Originally posted by mojojojo:
They probably didn’t do that. Most likely there was a crack already in it that the seller didn’t tell you about and either the heat/humidity change or just the jostling in the truck caused it to snap.

Highly unlikely. Unlike wood, which can, and often does, change quite significantly due to heat and humidity changes, plastic isn't so much affected.

"Jostling" in the shipping process? More likely, having been in an envelope with all the rigidity of a wet noodle, it got bent beyond its breaking point.

As the OP concedes...

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Originally posted by molachi:
You're right. I made a mistake. Will change title.

Where I used to work we mailed CDs all the time. (Software, software updates, data dumps, documentation, catalogs, product brochures, etc.) They went into a stiff cardboard CD sleeve or one of the thin jewel boxes, then into cardboard shipping envelopes. The combination of two rigid cardboard envelopes, or envelope + jewel box, seemed to do the trick.

Years ago before online storage and inexpensive flash drives, I used to ship data CD-Rs all of the time to clients. I always packed them in normal thickness jewel cases, wrapped in bubble wrap, and into a small USPS Priority mailer box. Never had one crack or break.

Netflix sends dvds in nothing but an envelope. Occasionally, I do get a cracked disc.

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Originally posted by tsmccull:
Surely that'll buff right out?

Hey,that's really clever! I'll have to remember that.

My company received like that eons ago when the software updates were sent via CD... dial-up connections, remember them?

The CD was in a cardboard mailer which had been bent into a "U" shape to fit better in a PO box. "Fragile" in big red letters provided no physical protection.

Used to receive cds for updates. The company put them in a cardboard sleeve. Then inserted them into a Fedex envelope.

Never received a broken one.

When you have a few minutes, take an old CD or DVD and try snapping it in half

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Originally posted by RogB:

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Originally posted by tsmccull:
Surely that'll buff right out?

Hey,that's really clever! I'll have to remember that.

Ha, Ha. Funny. Not!

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
When you have a few minutes, take an old CD or DVD and try snapping it in half

I've done this on cd's/dvd's that were being thrown out. Found out much easier to use a razor blade on the data side.

Just curious, did you put a fragile sticker on the package? That probably would have saved it