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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Technical Tips, Builds, and Help => Topic started by: IndianaRog on April 03, 2019, 01:22:26 pm

Title: Re: Amazon items...best practice for safe shipping
Post by: jkbixby on April 03, 2019, 07:43:32 pm

Thanks for the tip Rog it's good to know.

Title: Re: Amazon items...best practice for safe shipping
Post by: Nick on April 03, 2019, 07:36:30 pm

Good to know Rog, I recently bought a Dremel drill press stand off Amazon and it arrived with the shipping label on the original box that was smashed and opened up on the corners. Haven't had a chance to check and make sure it's all there, luckily Amazon is easy to deal with if you are a Prime member.

Title: Re: Amazon items...best practice for safe shipping
Post by: Jim on April 03, 2019, 05:38:18 pm

Thanks Rog.

Title: Re: Amazon items...best practice for safe shipping
Post by: St Paul Steam on April 03, 2019, 04:47:48 pm

Hummm....i never knew that...but now I do 👍
Thanks for the tip Rog.

Title: Re: Amazon items...best practice for safe shipping
Post by: Stoker on April 03, 2019, 02:34:25 pm

Great tip Rog ... wish such an option was available from all shippers and sources!

Title: Amazon items...best practice for safe shipping
Post by: IndianaRog on April 03, 2019, 01:22:26 pm

At least in the US...many of us get a lot of our needed items from Amazon. 

I have found that when they say in fine print that item will be shipped in packaging that shows what it is... ie: the original box.  If you look carefully, there is a little checkoff box asking that item be overpacked in an Amazon box to conceal what is inside.

This option is valuable primarily because it gives you "box in a box" protection of the contents...and it cost nothing extra.

Rog