This package is from UK. I picked this up from the Post office about an hour ago. As You can already see, there are some “minor” damages on the corners of the cover.. Mailman (in this case mailwoman) is not the one to blame. I made a deal (years ago) with this lovely lady who delivers our mail, that she just leaves all packages like this on the Post office and I take care of picking those up. She surely knows that these are holding vinyl records just because we have had numerous conversation about my record collecting :D
Anyways, this is the third time that I have received a record (actually fourth time but that one came in PVC sleeve and had no cover issues) from this artist and let’s look these corners little closer..
Only one corner out of four has no visible damages. And then we come to the record, actually to the cover. Oh, there were two carton stiffeners inside the mailer though..
Some ding-bump-fold-bends.. This is the third time with this artist and usage of insufficient mailer (I just can’t understand why anyone bothers to use those, not proper for international shipping, or anything) and YES, I have contacted the artist about these same issues before. I just do not understand why I even bothered to purchase this latest.. I did not pay for this, and it does not warm my heart that my name is mentioned on the cover..
One thing is for sure, I won’t order anything from this artist anymore and now he’s free of one whining idiot. Cheers, keep on making awesome music but pay a little more attention on packaging these jewels because this I got here is not shining.
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Aww man , such a bummer. My copy arrived almost flawless :<
lucky you :)
I wasn’t so lucky last year. My signed copy of Orphaned Land’s All Is One had seam splits and bumped corners. It travelled all the way from Israel to here though. At least the records were not damaged :D
Best packaging I receive come from this seller in Belgium. Thick cardboard mailer, records out of sleeve (even if you want them in the sleeve he refuses!) extra stiffeners and on top of that some special foam. Like you I’m also fed up receiving damaged goods. OK, shit happens even with solid packages but too often sellers have no proper packing skills.