A Little Effort Please...

The post has arrived and I am all excited

'cause I was expecting packages this week!

After signing for both parcels

My wonderful postman (actually her name is Lisa)

handed me this box
Hmmm...
I heard rattling
not good...feeling nervous

covered in lots of priority mail tape

 It was an antique German soup tureen

So...

I'm expecting to find popcorn and bubble wrap

Not newspapers and plastic grocery shopping bags 

just piled at the top of the box!

I am now starting to feel a little sick

looked like a recycling container

 after moving all the newspaper and grocery bags 

this is what I find...

broken...broken...broken

My heart sank...

This beautiful antique ceramic soup tureen 

had not been properly wrapped at all!

Where's all the cushioning? Where's the popcorn?

not packaged to shipping standards

I could not believe that the sender

 would choose to package this antique piece
for shipment in this way...
CERAMICS ARE F-R-A-G-I-L-E

I am beyond feeling ill to just feeling angry
and feeling DISAPPOINTED

Not salvageable at all

Now I open the next box...

So far...so good

The items are all wrapped in bubble wrap

although there isn't any extra cushioning
because the items in the box
aren't fragile???

They are made of wood and DON'T NEED
to be packaged as carefully as ceramics!
it's okay that there isn't any popcorn
Two different sellers
with two different outcomes

the lone survivor

This seller was selling the soup tureen for an elderly neighbor

 it was a BUY NOW item

so,  I thought to myself...

it's a fair asking price for a beautiful antique piece

the money is going to an elderly person who needs it

it'll be a nice souvenir of the days 

when our family lived in Germany
sigh...

just a bit of effort was needed to avoid this loss

I AM SO DISAPPOINTED
at the loss of this beautiful piece 

 for the seller not taking

the time to properly wrap a fragile item
and package it correctly for shipping
Aaagggrrrr...

I have emailed the seller
to give the bad news and
I hope I won't be disappointed
at the outcome of this transaction!

Thanks for allowing me to vent
otherwise I may start crying...

xoxo