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[Boogiepop]

I've been seeing stuff shipped in this (aka the thing where they, like, just put a thin little cardboard layer around the item and ship it, and it looks like when something's been vacuum-sealed) more and more recently, and holy crap do I ever hate it. Like, it offers literally zero protection, and pretty much every time something comes shipped that way it comes damaged as a result, usually to the degree that I feel a need to complain and ask that the item in question be replaced, which I don't generally do.

I'm sure it's getting used to save costs, but... man, it's like a whole other level of crap compared to other shipping methods, IMO. Does this drive anyone else nuts, or is it just me?

 

[Trouble]

Cardboard vacuum?

 

[MsKrisp]

I'm not sure I know what you're referring to. How do you vacuum pack cardboard, it's porous? I've gotten books and games with cardboard packaging that folds around it.

 

[Boogiepop]

I'm not sure I know what you're referring to. How do you vacuum pack cardboard, it's porous? I've gotten books and games with cardboard packaging that folds around it.

So, I've likely doomed this thread by failing to offer a good enough explanation, and I'm failing to actually even find an image to properly show what I'm talking about. I suppose since it's not porous it wouldn't be called cardboard then. Regardless, it's like a thick-ish (though still thin as paper) brown, rough material, and the way that it's packaged reminds me of vacuum-sealing, or like a ravioli or some crap (it's actually crimped on the sides, and is essentially just a thin packet that the item has been jammed inside).

 

[Chorazin]

So, I've likely doomed this thread by failing to offer a good enough explanation, and I'm failing to actually even find an image to properly show what I'm talking about. I suppose since it's not porous it wouldn't be called cardboard then. Regardless, it's like a thick-ish (though still thin as paper) brown, rough material, and the way that it's packaged reminds me of vacuum-sealing, or like a ravioli or some crap (it's actually crimped on the sides, and is essentially just a thin packet that the item has been jammed inside).

I have never received any package in any packaging even remotely fitting this description, and we're a multiple online order a week household.....

 

[BronsonLee]

I know what you're talking about OP. It is...not optimal

 

[Gattsu25]

So, I've likely doomed this thread by failing to offer a good enough explanation, and I'm failing to actually even find an image to properly show what I'm talking about. I suppose since it's not porous it wouldn't be called cardboard then. Regardless, it's like a thick-ish (though still thin as paper) brown, rough material, and the way that it's packaged reminds me of vacuum-sealing, or like a ravioli or some crap (it's actually crimped on the sides, and is essentially just a thin packet that the item has been jammed inside).

I don't think I know what you're referring to.

Edit:

Like this?

 

[terrible]

Yeah, my Twin Peaks audiobook came in one of these and the box was squished. Pissed me off. What useless packaging.

 

[bluehat9]

I know what youre talking about, my steelbook of john wick 2 came that way and had a corner damaged. Bestbuy at least replaced it (they sent the second in same packing but this one wasnt busted). Packing does feel like cardboard and plastic, like maybe they can heat seal it around stuff? I dont know, but feels like products could get damaged just by the way they seem to be wedged into it.

 

[zelas]

I think he means these things that video games, blurays, books, etc ship in.

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

I know what he means, best buy has a raging hard on for it. It looks like a vacuum seal, it's two pieces of cardboard glued together with the item in the middle so there's a lump in the middle with your item and then flat to the edge. It's not even think like cardboard, it almost feels like cardboard paper.

Zelas, not that at all

 

[Boogiepop]

I think he means these things that video games, blurays, books, etc ship in.

Nope, those are sturdier. This is more of an envelope thing that the item is jammed into and then sealed in some way. Doesn't even have any built in bubblewrap ala the more usual mailer envelopes.

 

[Randy5554]

Could be this picture at the top? Can't find a picture of an actual sealed package, but the flat edges kind of look like the main picture in the Wiki article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrugated_fiberboard

 

[ReAxion]

love a good guessing game thread

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

Could be this picture at the top? Can't find a picture of an actual sealed package, but the flat edges kind of look like the main picture in the Wiki article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrugated_fiberboard

This is just cardboard but it's just the corrugated rolls that are glued together

 

[Randy5554]

Is this it?

 

[n0razi]

Are you talking about these? Lots of refurb laptops and smartphones uses this style of packaing

I honestly find them to be adequate, the device is suspended in the middle of the box by the plastic so you dont need to waste styrofoam.

 

[Ashhong]

Is this it?

Pretty sure this is it, and it does indeed suck. Best Buy sends me Steelbooks in this shit

 

[Boogiepop]

Is this it?

That's the closest I've seen in here, but still not quite, as this stuff doesn't even have those ridges like in that picture for a little protection. It's essentially paper thin and flat.

 

[sixteen-bit]

I think I've seen that with shipments from Amazon.jp, but there's still an outer box to protect it.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Most packaging in general pisses me off because there's no reasonable way to open it in case you want to return it.

 

[Ashhong]

Most packaging in general pisses me off because there's no reasonable way to open it in case you want to return it.

Really? I have no trouble with boxes or the typical yellow bubble envelopes.

 

[MsKrisp]

I don't think I know what you're referring to.

Edit:

Like this?

I opened a "padded" envelope similar to this from USPS, and the pull tab ripped the envelope itself a bit, and it was padded with shredded paper dust that poofed right into my face and messed me up the whole day. Eyes and throat hurt really bad.

OP I don't think I've ever gotten a package in what you are referring to, but based on what everyone's saying, I hope I never do.

 

[Auron_Kale]

I take it the OP means like this (this is how Amazon Japan shipped my art book and P5 soundtrack):

I've never had an issue with the packaging and it's always been protected around the corners. I personally find it much more sturdy during shipment versus having airbags/packing peanuts surrounding it.

 

[zelas]

Well it must not be as common as you think if no one can guess it. I've seen everything posted in this topic on more than one occasion lol.

 

[Ravelle]

Some comic book stores seal your comics in a bag, then wrap them in newspapers, then pack them in slices of cardboard and then stuff it in a cardboard box. It's such a hassle to unpack it, it's not like your ordering crown jewels.

I also once got a USB thump drive packed in a big box filled with air bags.

 

[zulux21]

I take it the OP means like this (this is how Amazon Japan shipped my art book and P5 soundtrack):

no they are not talking about boxes at all.

they are talking about the packages that are basically sealed closed pieces of thin cardboard sheets about the thickness of construction paper.

I've gotten a bunch of these recently from ebay people. They protect the books a little but don't do much in general.

he is calling them vacuum sealed because the object in the things are held in place by the thin cardboard. beyond that bulge of the object in there the rest of the package is completely flat.

 

[Secret Character]

Some comic book stores seal your comics in a bag, then wrap them in newspapers, then pack them in slices of cardboard and then stuff it in a cardboard box. It's such a hassle to unpack it, it's not like your ordering crown jewels.

Uh huh... If you order anything for over $100, where condition is a very important part of the value, this kind of shipping is preferred. I've had books I've spent $50+ on that were shipped in bubble mailers that were destroyed in the process. I got my money back, the seller got a book that is devalued because of their cheap and lazy shipping.

 

[terrible]

I personally like the ravioli description the best lol. It's weird that I can't find any pictures of this kind of packaging online.

 

[shira]

That's the closest I've seen in here, but still not quite, as this stuff doesn't even have those ridges like in that picture for a little protection. It's essentially paper thin and flat.

I think you are describing an envelope

 

[Auron_Kale]

no they are not talking about boxes at all.

they are talking about the packages that are basically sealed closed pieces of thin cardboard sheets about the thickness of construction paper.

I've gotten a bunch of these recently from ebay people. They protect the books a little but don't do much in general.

he is calling them vacuum sealed because the object in the things are held in place by the thin cardboard. beyond that bulge of the object in there the rest of the package is completely flat.

I wasn't referring to the box it was how the art book and cd were packaged (both vacuum-sealed in plastic with a cardboard back). But again, there are different examples posted of what the OP meant though it's hard to tell.