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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: aj-kun on Thu, 29 August 2013, 05:32:38

Title: USPS First Class International
Post by: aj-kun on Thu, 29 August 2013, 05:32:38: Well looks like my switch tools didn't make it.
(http://i.imgur.com/9itn7f0.jpg)
the envelope arrived like this and empty
Title: Re: USPS First Class International
Post by: Tym on Thu, 29 August 2013, 05:34:07: A few people said that, did it cut its way out?
Title: Re: USPS First Class International
Post by: aj-kun on Thu, 29 August 2013, 07:38:31: The tear on the bottom left is a clean cut(scissors), that thing on the right is a tear. Oh well
Title: Re: USPS First Class International
Post by: SeriouSSpotS on Thu, 29 August 2013, 07:40:46: Quote from: aj-kun on Thu, 29 August 2013, 05:32:38
Well looks like my switch tools didn't make it.
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/9itn7f0.jpg)

the envelope arrived like this and empty

Aw that sucks man
Title: Re: USPS First Class International
Post by: aj-kun on Thu, 29 August 2013, 07:43:19: Of all the packages I'd had come in the past month, it's the cheapest one that gets stolen lol.
Title: Re: USPS First Class International
Post by: fohat.digs on Thu, 29 August 2013, 07:48:57: I don't know what the "tool" was, but sending it in a single-thickness paper envelope was pretty lame.
Title: Re: USPS First Class International
Post by: vivalarevolución on Thu, 29 August 2013, 08:25:31: What if customs thought it was some sort of weapon? Those things are sharp.
Title: Re: USPS First Class International
Post by: Tym on Thu, 29 August 2013, 08:26:46: Quote from: prdlm2009 on Thu, 29 August 2013, 08:25:31
What if customs thought it was some sort of weapon? Those things are sharp.

I've bought knives in from other countries, there are no laws against it, over here anyway. Is it not the same in the states?
Title: Re: USPS First Class International
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 29 August 2013, 08:28:09: Quote from: fohat.digs on Thu, 29 August 2013, 07:48:57
I don't know what the "tool" was, but sending it in a single-thickness paper envelope was pretty lame.

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=46160.0
Title: Re: USPS First Class International
Post by: nubbinator on Fri, 30 August 2013, 02:55:41: Quote from: fohat.digs on Thu, 29 August 2013, 07:48:57
I don't know what the "tool" was, but sending it in a single-thickness paper envelope was pretty lame.

Especially when shipping was $4 domestic and I'm sure even more international.