If you think these bubble mailers with top load and penny sleeve with team bag AND some decoys are the answer to getting your cards perfect, then think again.
Picture this....or even better, IMAGINE your card packed this way floating on a pillowy soft pile of cotton under a huge umbrella. FORGET IT! Yes, when packed this way, your card should arrive nice and sound. But as someone who works for UPS *pause*
Before anyone claims that this carrier is better than that one blah blah blah, THEY ALL SUCK!
*play* I can tell you that sometimes these things are so abused, it would make you puke! Or at least, throw up in your mouth a little LOL
It only takes a few degrees of inward bend for those dreaded creases or buckles to occur. Take a crappy no name joe jersey card and pack it in "H.I. Standards" and flex it inward just a little.
Small mail items like bubbles are carried in huge bags and dumped to be sorted by hand in each location they arrive at. For cards to US from Can or Can to US or even domestically, this could be as many as five stops. I bet not many of these under paid workers collect cards. Get me????
Sheep Happens. It sucks but it is a risk. I got a card in a mag one touch that arrived broken with card thoroughly gouged in many spots.
