Bullet shippment appears opened

[magnum12pm]

This is how Berry's packs their bullet shipments in flat rate boxes, hardy seems cheap on their part.

 

[oldRoger]

I have talked with a couple of small casters I deal with both of whom do a great job of packing. They say PO damage is so common as to not be worth comment. Mostly the boxes are more or less intact, split and retaped is common. It just means that I have to find something to put bullets in because the internal boxes are split. Typically the guys put a bag inside individual boxes, then another bag inside the flat rate box.
One of the lead shippers puts a wood box in inside the flat rate box, but 60+#s of lead has a lot on inertia. It will break if you drop it far enough.
Someone told me that Jacksonville Florida terminal is among the worst in the country, for breakage.
Is it deliberate or do some of them just not give a damm? I don’t know nor care, I just don’t want them handling my Medical Care.

 

[matsu]

I to order from Berry's and Oregon Trail both pack very secure use the right kind of packing material but midway and many others refuse to think through thier packing and just pack the cheapest way

 

[Noah Zark]

I buy lead bullets and lead, usually shipped in flat rate boxes. The PO has a very high place to which they send some of the boxes, they then push the box from the high place in an attempt to damage whatever it contains. The box splits they retape it and push it off a couple of more times retaping it each time. I am sure that it is very frustrating when the only damage is to the carton.

My PO delivery guy says he sees heavy flat rare boxes split quite often.

Having worked in the paper and packaging industry in a former life, I can comment on the frequent damage to heavy Flat Rate boxes. Despite the shipping charge being "Flat Rate" for whatever weight is placed into the corrugated container, those containers are frequently OVERLOADED for the capabilities of the linerboard and corrugating medium of which the containers are constructed.

Further, boxes of bullets have a lot of mass, and if they are not secured from shifting within in the corrugated Flat Rate container using robust dunnage, those shifting boxes of bullets develop lots of kinetic energy and inertia if incited to move as the container is handled and transported. Burst glue joints and punctures in the corrugated container are the result.

It is always best to use whatever amount of dunnage is necessary to restrain individual boxes or items from moving within any shipping container. Movement = Damage.

Noah