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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

If your package looks like that after shipping, you didn't use enough packing material.

10: pack your box
20: close box then shake
30: If contents of box rattle around add more packing material go to 20 else go to 40
40: tape box on seams and apply shipping label on box but not on box seams
50: give box to courier

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I once worked a stint for UPS doing package sorting. I definitely used that time to take some mental notes for any future shipping of mine. One big thing to pay attention to is keeping the weight/center of balance FIXED. Preferably low to the bottom and centered, but definitely fixed fixed fixed. Packing peanuts might still let something heavy shift around. Some folded up cardboard to keep heavy stuff fixed in one spot can go a long way to keep that box together.

The reason comes down to the belts in the sorting facilities. Some conveyor belts will suddenly tilt up at like 35°. If your contents shift the right way at that moment, the contents will start to use your box like a hamster wheel, counteracting the movement of the belt, and it will stay there doing flips until another package takes a beating helping it, or the jam is cleared. Even worse, it could climb that 35° incline and instead wobble wrong all the way at the top, and come tumbling down 30ft. You grow to learn the sound of a tumbling package, because immediately after the tumble it hits a small metal lip 2 ft from your head, shoots across your work area, and lands where you just grabbed it from. I think the max limit on that belt was 60lb packages.

Auto mechanics, this is specifically why your alternators are always beat to shit after UPS ships them.

This was also 10+ years ago, maybe they addressed the careening packages of death

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Why 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 instead of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Because it's been so long since I've done any programming. I don't remember syntax other than BASIC and I'm 80% sure my if statement is done incorrectly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

So you can revise and insert new steps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Because it's basic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

if you want to add a line in between. And don't have a fancy text editor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

What are you packing your boxes with that a shitty delivery company couldn't still make it look like the meme? Reinforced steel?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It's put into a semi truck trailer where other, many times heavier packages are most certainly placed on top of it. Those packages along with the beating it'll take from the road that desperately need to never be paved with concrete as it goes cross country, it will take some dings. The only way to be sure it's to make sure your package has adequate packing material.

Otherwise your cardboard box will turn into a cardboard sack.