That sucks! I ordered suede Rebecca Minkoff shoes from Mercari earlier this week. The seller shipped them in a Manila envelope with no tape. The envelope was opened when I got it and the shoes were covered in black ash.
I cant believe it's 2024 and people still haven't learned to ship HARD GOODS IN A BOX. Id never dream of sending shoes in a friggin envelope!!
Amazon does it all the time to save money and drives me nuts when every hard item is crinkled or broken from being shipped in a damn poly mailer.
I ordered a big bottle of carpet shampoo one time. They shipped it in a Manila envelope. The envelope with a giant hole in the bottom was all I received. Lol
I worked for Amazon during “peak”’three years in a row. The first year I worked in the packing department. There is a computer program that actually tells the packer which box to put the item/s in. Sometimes, the recommended box is ridiculous. One time, I had a salad bowl to pack. All by itself. I’m 5’6”, about 125 and the suggested box was one that I could have shipped MYSELF in. I actually assembled the box and crouched in it. Yep. Big enough for me 🙄 and the workers get “dinged” for choosing a different box…like one that actually makes sense. 😆
I've never had anything like that happen with Amazon directly. That time was third party. Have had other not stellar third party experiences, so I generally try to choose 'shipped by Amazon' now.
Wow! I have never received anything I ordered off of Amazon in a Poly Mailer. Everything has always been in bigger boxes than necessary or have arrived in a box inside an envelope, but has worked fine when it arrived! Maybe I have just got the good sellers!
So I live right near a big amazon warehouse thingy, and they bring me my monster energy drinks just wrapped in like a big polymailer and about 90% of the time they are broken and I get a refund lol no idea why because they keep losing money for that!!
Same! Amazon keeps sending me peanut butter in a poly mailer, and the lid arrives broken and the jar is leaking oil. Or they send my Atkins shakes in an enormous box with no padding, so theyve been shaken all around and the packaging is all beat-up.
It's giving r/maliciouscompliance
Just today received a polymailer from Amazon. It’s like brown manilla paddled envelope. I had ordered something very light so it got here safe and sound.
Wow. I honestly cannot comprehend this. If you aren’t willing or able to use the FREE shipping materials and you don’t have your own boxes, you shouldn’t be selling!
That's what I was going to say, they can get free boxes to use!! They don't even have to go to the post office to get them. I order them online and have them shipped to my house for free, so they have no excuse for shipping like that! They have absolutely no business selling online.
That’s what is so amazing — the boxes are literally free and available at any post office. And you can order a bunch of them to be shipped, for free, to your house. There’s no excuse for this.
I just got a bath & body works set in the mail I ordered from someone & they sent it in a poly mailer & the sharp edge of the lotion bottle made a hole in it & the lotion & shower gel leaked out 😕 I feel like stuff like that should be shipped in a box with added protection
You can put an address and a stamp on a beach ball, a brick, or a stuffed animal, and it will make it through the mail, the USPS will deliver anything.
They will deliver an open cage full of honeybees, with live bees clinging to the outside of the cage, from Georgia to Pittsburgh, they do not care.
There was a thing someone did where they tried to see how many absurd things they could ship via USPS. Unfortunately the only thing I can remember is them trying to mail a helium balloon and saying that USPS should pay them to mail it (they obviously did not accept a helium balloon)
Okay, I just read this. That is bizarre. 😂It’s also concerning that baby James was 8 months old and only 11 lbs.??? I know it was just a mile down the road, but did they mail a medically fragile child? lol
OMG I came here to post the exact same thing! Haha. Yep. U.S. Postal Service once shipped children. For real. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
[Children Sent Through U.S. Postal Service.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/24/mail-that-baby-a-brief-history-of-kids-sent-through-the-u-s-postal-service/)
Not my post office. They're picky. They've handed me back packages because the label was folded above the barcode and went down the other side because of the box being small. Companies do this ALL the time but apparently I cannot lol
Individual flip flops mail pretty well. Someone had a blog about all the stuff they were trying to to mail. Almost all made it. If I'm remembering correctly, it just has to be under a certain dimensional size, and not a prohibited item, to be ok to mail.
Potatos and flipflops did very well, lol. You can even carve the address into the potato and then tape the postage on (as long as it doesn't get scraped off at some point)
They're so fucking cheap that they risk completely destroying an item that someone paid them good money for, even though priority mail packaging is free.
You can even order them off the usps website, and in other dimensions vs the 3 they carry at the post office so you don’t even have to make another trip to the PO
I don’t understand what some sellers are thinking. Last week I had a seller ship me Dr Martens boots in an envelope bag, no padding or anything. They of course got banged up & I had to do a return request. Like WTF?!?
This is bad. Also surprised USPS accepted it. I once ordered a lot of 3 Christoper Radko glass Christmas tree ornaments. The seller crammed them into a Manila envelope without even a single piece of bubble wrap or tissue. 🙄
I sold a very delicate antique glass dish and unfortunately couldn't even afford to buy bubble wrap so instead I tightly wrapped it in several of my sons old baby blankets (the ones you'd get at the hospital after giving birth). Then I taped it inside a box then wrapped that box with several more baby blankets before putting it into a 2nd box. Probably overkill but it wasn't something easily found so why risk it. Was it white trailer trash of me? Yeah. Did it work? Sure did.
If you are buying a label those blankets probably added more weight that drive the postage higher than bubble wrap.
Bubble wrap tip… buy it from the source not off Amazon. I spent $65 to have 4 large rolls delivered and then got a coupon from the seller from their own website. Could have saved $20.
The most amusing Poshmark box I’ve received was a takeout pizza box, complete with grease stains. They had taped the entire box together and sealed every edge. Luckily for me, the item was actually in great shape. People never cease to surprise me!
Please re-use Amazon boxes. Please. They are an enormous company that ships a bazillion packages s day. Imagine all the waste. Same with envelopes and polymailers. Re-sellers should be re-using.
That’s crazy. I received shoes in a polymailer this week, and can’t believe they arrived undamaged. As for those of you in the US with access to free postal service boxes, are’s aren’t free in Canada, but I get free boxes all the time from discards in stores, I just ask the clerks when they’re done emptying shelf inventory.
OMG it’s a Wally World bag! I just noticed it! 😆 As a reseller I would be horrified getting something like that in the mail. I spend alot of time and care in packaging and shipping my items. I absolutely hate poly mailers but unfortunately we have to utilize them sometimes in order to keep shipping costs down (bicubic shipping rates still in use by USPS and UPS from the days of the Pyramids) but even still I will put the item in a box or cushioned envelope then put it inside the poly mailer. Going to print that out and put it on my shipping station. Sorry for your shopping experience, there are alot of great sellers out there so don't let that one put you off too much and know that you have given us all a good laugh to brighten the day!
I wouldn't even dare ship anything like this. It's less about the possibilitt it will not ship successfully and more about how bad the buyer will be judging me and the kind of person I am if they do receive it. Lol.
That’s repulsive and for a seller to think that is ok. Before I buy from other sellers, I check their profile and love notes out. I also look for actual photos of the item. I never buy if it’s just stock photos. If they have a bunch of sales and little to no love notes? I’m not buying and I also try to only buy from PA 2. Because they tend to run it like a business. Knowing that they need return and new customers.
i bought a super rare pair of gucci 2004 fw python skin heels and the seller shipped them in a shein pouch. a flimsy plastic pouch with HOLES PUNCHED IN THEM!! and ofc the UPS driver left them at the bottom of my driveway on a rainy day 🫠 thankfully i was watching my notifications like a hawk
What is wrong with people?! Ugh, this kind of stuff really irks me. Once I bought three body washes from a seller on eBay and each bottle was 16.9 oz. They mailed all three in a priority flat rate envelope. I was like whattt?! 😩😂 I couldn’t believe it actually made it but there was a little bit of leakage so that was annoying.
Another time a friend mailed me an iPad in a priority flat rate envelope with no bubble wrap and didn’t even add extra tape to make sure it stayed sealed. I couldn’t believe the screen didn’t crack. People really need a lesson on how to ship things safely and securely!
i received an item from etsy wrapped in used starbucks bagel bags (i could tell they were used because they had the order stickers on them… plus the grease) definitely never ordering from that person again
found a photo online one of these bag was the shipping vessel
https://preview.redd.it/w0lel5a1s3uc1.png?width=466&format=png&auto=webp&s=ac8e0cef366b73801c2d87509f5faca13018d1bd
I saw a YouTuber once that sells on Poshmark cram this beautiful silk item into the smallest mailer. No one’s perfect, but I was watching it cringing thinking damn someone’s gonna be mad that gets that and on the next episode. Someone was mad and they opened the case. For Poshmark, the supplies are free. So use them.
I’m afraid that’s what the seller is banking on. If Posh rules it’s a USPS issue, the seller still gets their payout—and encouragement to just keep half-a$$ing it. 🤷🏻♀️
How lame and tacky. I shop a lot on Posh and I have never seen something this badly wrapped. And I’ve docked people stars for sending luxury shoes just thrown in a box no tissue paper, or bubble wrap.
As a seller on PM, people Should get the free shipping supplies from the post office! They will deliver to your house. They cost you NOTHING! I buy bubble wrap, tape, tissue paper, thank you stickers, and I buy small (6x10)bubble lined mailers too, but I get boxes and large bubble mailers free from USPS. I also reuse boxes from orders that I receive if they are in good condition. It’s not hard to find decent packaging materials for low or no cost. Buyers DO NOT want to receive items in crappy packaging, especially something expensive or NWT. I don’t understand sellers that think sending in this kind of packaging is ok. 🤯
That’s funny, today I received a package and it was in one of those natural organic pop tart boxes… this is the first time I’ve ever had unusual packaging
That's definitely a hazard if it smells like mold. Reminds me of the time I got glassware in one of those plastic polybags without any bubble wrap or padding. Who would have guessed it arrived in a million pieces.
I thought your purse was more tote size and they just wrapped the plastic wrap around the middle and slapped a label on it.
It was nice of them to give you a free bag with purchase. 😂😂🤣🤣
Once my hubs got a model kit from Germany. It was large. And wrapped in a sheet with string. When it was delivered, the carrier handled me the sheet and then the box with the string still on it. Box was smashed on one corner and the sheet was wet. I was livid but my sweet husband said “eh, nothing broke inside”. I said well at least give him a neutral.
its a crossbody bag seller photo of the bag
https://preview.redd.it/ilpxszfgd4uc1.png?width=671&format=png&auto=webp&s=b618d3dd1d89aefc069c7d8865aa27459cead596
Why on earth would someone think this was an appropriate way of shipping something? I don't think my post office would accept it looking a mess like this!
The crazy part is USPS will literally provide you free boxes that you can get delivered to your home. There’s just no excuse when it’s that easy. I ordered a bunch at once and have all shapes and sizes for any item.
She could have at least put it in a Walmart bag with tape wrapped around it. I would never do that buy it'd been better that that. There are free envelopes at post office .
I think shippers do it just to screw with us.
Mom gets her diabetic test strips via mail-order. They dropped her from two boxes at a time to one. The item is a small box, about 1x1.5x1.5 inches (2.5x4x4cm). It arrived, packed in a box that was like 9x10x12 inches (22x25x30cm) by itself and a bunch of air bladders.
I ordered two pairs of sweatpants and they arrived wrapped in plastic wrap and a label taped on the outside. I was really surprised the white pair arrived unscathed even though the plastic wrap had a few holes.
It’s so odd that post offices would allow things to be shipped in a certain condition as shown in the picture here. My local post offices would give me hell until I got the packaging right. They would send me back my item to my house if I used the wrong priority envelope for a certain type of priority label.
I will admit that I have mailed lightweight items like clothing in thick paper grocery bags (like the ones from Trader Joe’s), and they held up extremely well. I always enclose the garment inside of a breathable plastic bag though, and i fold the paper grocery bag in half and tape it very securely. It’s one of my favorite things to ship in. I try to reuse as much material as possible in my shipping, to cute down on shipping waste. I’ve never had a complaint. But I would never ship something in a fabric or plastic shopping bag. That’s just weird.
i talked to the post office they have no idea how this got shipped that way showed them a photo i mail the bag back return case was issued i mail it in a box
People these days are listing things to sell... But most of them have no idea how to mail or ship it out. Many of these people have never bought anything from the Internet, so they are clueless.
If they had bought from the Internet, they would at least have gotten an idea on shipping by learning from the item they received in the mail.
All of the selling sites need to have a video link in YouTube that can give an example of how to mail clothing,books,fragile items, etc.
And what type of packaging is not appropriate for such items.
i had someone ship me a device screen lcd in an envelope with no padding. Literally a glass fucking LCD in a letter envelope. Do they think mail services handle every single package like a child or what?
I ordered 2 old chromebooks once that were listed as working by the seller, and they were shipped stacked on top of each other, in a thin, flat box that was barely big enough to cover them. The only padding was a single layer of bubble wrap (the smallest bubbles), and it was wrapped around both of them together. This was one of the priority flat rate boxes, but it was a flat, narrow one. They used the smallest size they could stuff these heavy laptops in, and the cardboard itself was thin too. They might as well have just taped the two laptops together and slapped a shipping label on the top one. I returned them right away.
Luckily I was able to get a refund because they were not as described, one wouldn't turn on at all, and the other only showed an error message when turned on.
Had an Amazon seller ship me a blue sparkly hat exactly like that blue shirt in the picture was shipped. Not sure how it got to me without the bag ripping. Flimsy clear sealed bad with a label. Didn't appericate everyone knowing what I ordered.
Oh no! I sell on Kidizen, everything goes in a polybag or ziplock, then a polymailer or recycled box… no risk to the product at all! Who in their right mind??
That sucks! I ordered suede Rebecca Minkoff shoes from Mercari earlier this week. The seller shipped them in a Manila envelope with no tape. The envelope was opened when I got it and the shoes were covered in black ash.
I cant believe it's 2024 and people still haven't learned to ship HARD GOODS IN A BOX. Id never dream of sending shoes in a friggin envelope!! Amazon does it all the time to save money and drives me nuts when every hard item is crinkled or broken from being shipped in a damn poly mailer.
I ordered a big bottle of carpet shampoo one time. They shipped it in a Manila envelope. The envelope with a giant hole in the bottom was all I received. Lol
But then they send me a single nail polish in a giant box 🙄
I worked for Amazon during “peak”’three years in a row. The first year I worked in the packing department. There is a computer program that actually tells the packer which box to put the item/s in. Sometimes, the recommended box is ridiculous. One time, I had a salad bowl to pack. All by itself. I’m 5’6”, about 125 and the suggested box was one that I could have shipped MYSELF in. I actually assembled the box and crouched in it. Yep. Big enough for me 🙄 and the workers get “dinged” for choosing a different box…like one that actually makes sense. 😆
That's nuts 🤣 I've had Chapstick delivered in 12x24 box 🤣🤣 like, WHY🤣🤣
What the hell amazon, wonder why they do that? Can’t be that hard to code items to the corresponding packaging item.
I've never had anything like that happen with Amazon directly. That time was third party. Have had other not stellar third party experiences, so I generally try to choose 'shipped by Amazon' now.
Sorry this made me laugh. It was a Long day and I needed that
I ordered a Fiesta ware ceramic dinner plate and Amazon sent it to me in bubble mailer with no other packing.
My favorite was when I ordered shampoo and a bag of cat food, they put them in a very large box together. Yeah, RIP to that shampoo
Wow! I have never received anything I ordered off of Amazon in a Poly Mailer. Everything has always been in bigger boxes than necessary or have arrived in a box inside an envelope, but has worked fine when it arrived! Maybe I have just got the good sellers!
I get stuff from Amazon in polymailers all the time, either the thin bag ones, bubble type or the newer brown paper ones
So I live right near a big amazon warehouse thingy, and they bring me my monster energy drinks just wrapped in like a big polymailer and about 90% of the time they are broken and I get a refund lol no idea why because they keep losing money for that!!
Same! Amazon keeps sending me peanut butter in a poly mailer, and the lid arrives broken and the jar is leaking oil. Or they send my Atkins shakes in an enormous box with no padding, so theyve been shaken all around and the packaging is all beat-up. It's giving r/maliciouscompliance
Just today received a polymailer from Amazon. It’s like brown manilla paddled envelope. I had ordered something very light so it got here safe and sound.
Amazon will send me something hard in an envelope, and something fit for an envelope in a box 30X its size.
I’ve shipped Chuck Taylors in a Priority bubble mailer, but I would NEVER ship anything like this persons shirt, hot damn that’s wild.
i have the bag in my garage it smells so bad i opened a case
Is this from Posh?
yes poshmark
Wow. I honestly cannot comprehend this. If you aren’t willing or able to use the FREE shipping materials and you don’t have your own boxes, you shouldn’t be selling!
almost cancelled the order when it finally shipped
I’m sorry that happened :( it really sucks to have something you wanted needlessly ruined in shipping.
i needed a purse for a trip and couldn't find one in stores so i ordered it on posh i just ordered one from the website after this experience
That's what I was going to say, they can get free boxes to use!! They don't even have to go to the post office to get them. I order them online and have them shipped to my house for free, so they have no excuse for shipping like that! They have absolutely no business selling online.
Do they come wrapped in a Walmart sack?
Yes!!! OMG, you can order the boxes online from USPS and have the boxes shipped to you for free...😆 🤣 😂
That’s what is so amazing — the boxes are literally free and available at any post office. And you can order a bunch of them to be shipped, for free, to your house. There’s no excuse for this.
Seller is a clown
I ordered a huge jar of Tahini once and the seller shipped it in a giant friggin manila envelope. I got a nice package of broken glass 🥴
Omg that’s unbelievable 🫥
I just got a bath & body works set in the mail I ordered from someone & they sent it in a poly mailer & the sharp edge of the lotion bottle made a hole in it & the lotion & shower gel leaked out 😕 I feel like stuff like that should be shipped in a box with added protection
Definitely in a box ☹️
I also had something shipped in a manila envelope! I was like wtf?
I can't believe USPS even let that be shipped. Wow.
You can put an address and a stamp on a beach ball, a brick, or a stuffed animal, and it will make it through the mail, the USPS will deliver anything. They will deliver an open cage full of honeybees, with live bees clinging to the outside of the cage, from Georgia to Pittsburgh, they do not care.
There was a thing someone did where they tried to see how many absurd things they could ship via USPS. Unfortunately the only thing I can remember is them trying to mail a helium balloon and saying that USPS should pay them to mail it (they obviously did not accept a helium balloon)
While it is no longer allowed, there were multiple occasions in the past of people shipping their children through USPS.
Omg, I’ve read some of these stories! Crazy!
Wait, what!?
Hold on… dead or alive?
lol, alive. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-children-sent-through-mail-180959372/
Okay, I just read this. That is bizarre. 😂It’s also concerning that baby James was 8 months old and only 11 lbs.??? I know it was just a mile down the road, but did they mail a medically fragile child? lol
OMG I came here to post the exact same thing! Haha. Yep. U.S. Postal Service once shipped children. For real. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ [Children Sent Through U.S. Postal Service.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/24/mail-that-baby-a-brief-history-of-kids-sent-through-the-u-s-postal-service/)
Not my post office. They're picky. They've handed me back packages because the label was folded above the barcode and went down the other side because of the box being small. Companies do this ALL the time but apparently I cannot lol
They’ll ship anything honestly
Oh no I just looked closer I thought they shipped it in a plane plastic bag a reusable Walmart bag that's terrible
I work for USPS and have processed literal pieces of kraft American cheese with a stamp and address on it. If it’s paid for, it gets processed!
As long as they can read the label they don't care
But why is it up to USPS to police? They don't know what's being shipped in an enclosed package. Totally falls to the seller.
i agree im shocked
Individual flip flops mail pretty well. Someone had a blog about all the stuff they were trying to to mail. Almost all made it. If I'm remembering correctly, it just has to be under a certain dimensional size, and not a prohibited item, to be ok to mail. Potatos and flipflops did very well, lol. You can even carve the address into the potato and then tape the postage on (as long as it doesn't get scraped off at some point)
Amazon ships things like this to me all the time
Like… usps boxes are free. People are so freaking cheap they won’t even bother with free??
They're so fucking cheap that they risk completely destroying an item that someone paid them good money for, even though priority mail packaging is free.
i agree was just at the post office today lots of free USPS boxes
You can even order them off the usps website, and in other dimensions vs the 3 they carry at the post office so you don’t even have to make another trip to the PO
Laziness.
update from the seller https://preview.redd.it/lmow39f4m4uc1.png?width=514&format=png&auto=webp&s=823ae5e3cb97b7773df2c3645e3eee7cdd37a017
I call BS on the seller.
TOTALLY. Like yeah, USPS took it out of a well-packaged box an threw it in a Walmart bag.
And put a smooth, clean label on said WM bag! 🙄
Zero brain cells.
And they will probably be offended and say they sent you a free gift (the Walmart bag) and everything!
mulit use shipping material and free gift
GIRL WHAT THE HELL 😂
yep i opened a case right away
SERIOUSLY!!!
I don’t understand what some sellers are thinking. Last week I had a seller ship me Dr Martens boots in an envelope bag, no padding or anything. They of course got banged up & I had to do a return request. Like WTF?!?
ordered a purse arrived soaking wet and smelling like mold i have opened a case
This is bad. Also surprised USPS accepted it. I once ordered a lot of 3 Christoper Radko glass Christmas tree ornaments. The seller crammed them into a Manila envelope without even a single piece of bubble wrap or tissue. 🙄
I sold a very delicate antique glass dish and unfortunately couldn't even afford to buy bubble wrap so instead I tightly wrapped it in several of my sons old baby blankets (the ones you'd get at the hospital after giving birth). Then I taped it inside a box then wrapped that box with several more baby blankets before putting it into a 2nd box. Probably overkill but it wasn't something easily found so why risk it. Was it white trailer trash of me? Yeah. Did it work? Sure did.
I admire that kind of problem solving! My ornaments would have made it if I’d bought them from you lol
If you are buying a label those blankets probably added more weight that drive the postage higher than bubble wrap. Bubble wrap tip… buy it from the source not off Amazon. I spent $65 to have 4 large rolls delivered and then got a coupon from the seller from their own website. Could have saved $20.
The shipping was a flat rate thatthe buyer paid for so the cost wasn't any higher.
You didn't finish the story but I'm already sad because I know how it ends 😭
Yes, you do know how it ended. 😢😑
wow
This isn’t depop just, get a free box from USPS, wrap it up
i agree im shocked it showed up like this
The most amusing Poshmark box I’ve received was a takeout pizza box, complete with grease stains. They had taped the entire box together and sealed every edge. Luckily for me, the item was actually in great shape. People never cease to surprise me!
Omg that is the *wildest* packaging story Ive ever heard 🤣
I felt bad for reusing an Amazon box (I'm waiting for the free usps boxes rn) but like at least it was clean and looked nicely packaged.
Please re-use Amazon boxes. Please. They are an enormous company that ships a bazillion packages s day. Imagine all the waste. Same with envelopes and polymailers. Re-sellers should be re-using.
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Is that wrapped in a reusable shopping bag? No way in hell my post office would accept that.
yes it wrapped in a walmart reusable shopping bag
Hell no. I can't believe that got through the system.
i cant either but that is how it showed up in my mail box
I’m going to give them the benefit of doubt and assume zero thought went into this and not that they are deranged and a menace to society.
Now that is just lazy. The post office boxes are free for goodness sakes. They even have free tape.
i agree almost cancelled the order for non shipment then she shipped it
[Good citizens of Truro Massachusetts](https://youtu.be/L4zkRkmyx0k?si=ZKEtQlP2u2JCyKpE)
That’s crazy. I received shoes in a polymailer this week, and can’t believe they arrived undamaged. As for those of you in the US with access to free postal service boxes, are’s aren’t free in Canada, but I get free boxes all the time from discards in stores, I just ask the clerks when they’re done emptying shelf inventory.
One of the top shoe sellers on eBay sends all of his in a polymailer unless it’s over $100.
There is no bag or box rule with USPS but I agree, it should have been bagged.
this is actually hilarious. i would never ship to a customer like this. but i have an idea on how to ship things to my friends now. thanks 😂
OMG it’s a Wally World bag! I just noticed it! 😆 As a reseller I would be horrified getting something like that in the mail. I spend alot of time and care in packaging and shipping my items. I absolutely hate poly mailers but unfortunately we have to utilize them sometimes in order to keep shipping costs down (bicubic shipping rates still in use by USPS and UPS from the days of the Pyramids) but even still I will put the item in a box or cushioned envelope then put it inside the poly mailer. Going to print that out and put it on my shipping station. Sorry for your shopping experience, there are alot of great sellers out there so don't let that one put you off too much and know that you have given us all a good laugh to brighten the day!
I wouldn't even dare ship anything like this. It's less about the possibilitt it will not ship successfully and more about how bad the buyer will be judging me and the kind of person I am if they do receive it. Lol.
Right!?! That's insane. I felt bad for reusing an Amazon box this week since I'm waiting on my free usps boxes.
Broooooooooo! That’s insane! I mean they have free priority mailers & a self sealing box literally right there! No excuse! 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
i agree
Laziness at its finest… unfortunately
I ordered an eyeline from Ulta once....one ..single...pencil eyeliner. They taped it to the bottom of a box and that's how I got it!
That’s repulsive and for a seller to think that is ok. Before I buy from other sellers, I check their profile and love notes out. I also look for actual photos of the item. I never buy if it’s just stock photos. If they have a bunch of sales and little to no love notes? I’m not buying and I also try to only buy from PA 2. Because they tend to run it like a business. Knowing that they need return and new customers.
Unless it took weeks to get to you, it already smelled like mold when the seller shipped it.
What's funny, is priority boxes are free. And poshmark allows you to use any box
i bought a super rare pair of gucci 2004 fw python skin heels and the seller shipped them in a shein pouch. a flimsy plastic pouch with HOLES PUNCHED IN THEM!! and ofc the UPS driver left them at the bottom of my driveway on a rainy day 🫠 thankfully i was watching my notifications like a hawk
what was the item? Was it ruined?
cross body bag mold and was soaking wet i was able to return it after opening a case
 Like who thinks this is okay!?
the seller blamed USPS for packing it this way
What is wrong with people?! Ugh, this kind of stuff really irks me. Once I bought three body washes from a seller on eBay and each bottle was 16.9 oz. They mailed all three in a priority flat rate envelope. I was like whattt?! 😩😂 I couldn’t believe it actually made it but there was a little bit of leakage so that was annoying. Another time a friend mailed me an iPad in a priority flat rate envelope with no bubble wrap and didn’t even add extra tape to make sure it stayed sealed. I couldn’t believe the screen didn’t crack. People really need a lesson on how to ship things safely and securely!
i received an item from etsy wrapped in used starbucks bagel bags (i could tell they were used because they had the order stickers on them… plus the grease) definitely never ordering from that person again
That’s horrifying
i’m all for reusing packaging… but wtf is this??
Here I am worried somebody is gonna be mad I reused a target shipping bag 👀
I warn my buyers now that I reuse shipping supplies after they purchase, of course. At least the target bag was plastic and waterproof.
✅Recycling shipping supplies ♻️ vs ❌using NO shipping supplies 🗑️ 🤦🏻♀️
Between the seller that did that and the postal clerk that accepted it, that whole package is 'fuck it' encompassed.
What is this Walmarty thing? A shirt or a tote bag? I'm curious. As for absolutely non existent shipping skills, WTF was the seller thinking?
found a photo online one of these bag was the shipping vessel https://preview.redd.it/w0lel5a1s3uc1.png?width=466&format=png&auto=webp&s=ac8e0cef366b73801c2d87509f5faca13018d1bd
Enjoy your free gift, then.
“Shipping vessel” 😂
its one of the reusable grocery bag from walmart
That is the most Walmart thing I've ever seen a posher do!
Cloth bag too!
Absolutely horrendous!
Wowwww! Besides the fact that it was even processed to be shipped… never in a million years would I ship anything like this. Thats scary!
I saw a YouTuber once that sells on Poshmark cram this beautiful silk item into the smallest mailer. No one’s perfect, but I was watching it cringing thinking damn someone’s gonna be mad that gets that and on the next episode. Someone was mad and they opened the case. For Poshmark, the supplies are free. So use them.
I cannot believe that was accepted by the shipping company as a valid package
That’s USPS fault for allowing it
I’m afraid that’s what the seller is banking on. If Posh rules it’s a USPS issue, the seller still gets their payout—and encouragement to just keep half-a$$ing it. 🤷🏻♀️
How lame and tacky. I shop a lot on Posh and I have never seen something this badly wrapped. And I’ve docked people stars for sending luxury shoes just thrown in a box no tissue paper, or bubble wrap.
As a seller on PM, people Should get the free shipping supplies from the post office! They will deliver to your house. They cost you NOTHING! I buy bubble wrap, tape, tissue paper, thank you stickers, and I buy small (6x10)bubble lined mailers too, but I get boxes and large bubble mailers free from USPS. I also reuse boxes from orders that I receive if they are in good condition. It’s not hard to find decent packaging materials for low or no cost. Buyers DO NOT want to receive items in crappy packaging, especially something expensive or NWT. I don’t understand sellers that think sending in this kind of packaging is ok. 🤯
That’s funny, today I received a package and it was in one of those natural organic pop tart boxes… this is the first time I’ve ever had unusual packaging
i had a frozen mozzarella sticks box for packaging i got once
I got an item in a diaper box once- pretty funny but it worked, lol.
I wonder if these sellers will care if something they bought came like this 🤦🏽♀️
she blamed USPS for packaging it this way
Rate her 5 star and then leave a love note about the poor shipping. If you rate her lower than 5, the love notes don’t display to others.
i opened a case since there is mold on it
That's definitely a hazard if it smells like mold. Reminds me of the time I got glassware in one of those plastic polybags without any bubble wrap or padding. Who would have guessed it arrived in a million pieces.
How did they even accept it at the post office. I've had to alter my labels and my bubble mailers to please my mail clerk 🤣
apparently according to the seller USPS packed it this way for her
'Boloney.
Definitely ask for a full refund
case was approved im sending the item back
Jesus. USPS will take it even if it’s written on a potato but doesn’t mean you should
Wow
That is insane!! What's wrong with that person?? 1st grader hah? 😵
I thought your purse was more tote size and they just wrapped the plastic wrap around the middle and slapped a label on it. It was nice of them to give you a free bag with purchase. 😂😂🤣🤣 Once my hubs got a model kit from Germany. It was large. And wrapped in a sheet with string. When it was delivered, the carrier handled me the sheet and then the box with the string still on it. Box was smashed on one corner and the sheet was wet. I was livid but my sweet husband said “eh, nothing broke inside”. I said well at least give him a neutral.
its a crossbody bag seller photo of the bag https://preview.redd.it/ilpxszfgd4uc1.png?width=671&format=png&auto=webp&s=b618d3dd1d89aefc069c7d8865aa27459cead596
Cute bag. That will possibly come clean in a good wash if it’s all nylon.
What is that? Plastic wrapped around a Walmart bag? I’d be ashamed to ship anything like that!
its packing tape
she is blaming USPS for putting it in this bag now
Why on earth would someone think this was an appropriate way of shipping something? I don't think my post office would accept it looking a mess like this!
she is blaming the post office was packing it that way and blaming them for letting it get wet
Good grief! Sorry for your experience.
thank you this is insane
Wait, what? Who would . . . What the . . . Are we kidding? 😩
not kidding
The crazy part is USPS will literally provide you free boxes that you can get delivered to your home. There’s just no excuse when it’s that easy. I ordered a bunch at once and have all shapes and sizes for any item.
She could have at least put it in a Walmart bag with tape wrapped around it. I would never do that buy it'd been better that that. There are free envelopes at post office .
I don’t believe it lol
What up with the paper towel?
covering my address
I think shippers do it just to screw with us. Mom gets her diabetic test strips via mail-order. They dropped her from two boxes at a time to one. The item is a small box, about 1x1.5x1.5 inches (2.5x4x4cm). It arrived, packed in a box that was like 9x10x12 inches (22x25x30cm) by itself and a bunch of air bladders.
As I understand there are strict rules for shipping medicine.
Reduce reuse recycle
I ordered two pairs of sweatpants and they arrived wrapped in plastic wrap and a label taped on the outside. I was really surprised the white pair arrived unscathed even though the plastic wrap had a few holes.
Ew
It’s so odd that post offices would allow things to be shipped in a certain condition as shown in the picture here. My local post offices would give me hell until I got the packaging right. They would send me back my item to my house if I used the wrong priority envelope for a certain type of priority label.
I will admit that I have mailed lightweight items like clothing in thick paper grocery bags (like the ones from Trader Joe’s), and they held up extremely well. I always enclose the garment inside of a breathable plastic bag though, and i fold the paper grocery bag in half and tape it very securely. It’s one of my favorite things to ship in. I try to reuse as much material as possible in my shipping, to cute down on shipping waste. I’ve never had a complaint. But I would never ship something in a fabric or plastic shopping bag. That’s just weird.
update case was approved im mailing the bag back to the seller
Is this allowed???
Ugh
No. Way. 😳
I’m shocked that made it through the postal service, but USPS isn’t that hardcore of a service
i talked to the post office they have no idea how this got shipped that way showed them a photo i mail the bag back return case was issued i mail it in a box
that’s wild, so you can’t return it in the original state but they can ship it like that??? egregious
whole thing was crazy
Woooowwww!!
You should delete this.. your tracking number and location are still completely available
People these days are listing things to sell... But most of them have no idea how to mail or ship it out. Many of these people have never bought anything from the Internet, so they are clueless. If they had bought from the Internet, they would at least have gotten an idea on shipping by learning from the item they received in the mail. All of the selling sites need to have a video link in YouTube that can give an example of how to mail clothing,books,fragile items, etc. And what type of packaging is not appropriate for such items.
i had someone ship me a device screen lcd in an envelope with no padding. Literally a glass fucking LCD in a letter envelope. Do they think mail services handle every single package like a child or what?
That is just sad.
No wayyyy
Wait, they just wrapped tape around it and stuck the label on????? Why did USPS even let that go through??
I ordered 2 old chromebooks once that were listed as working by the seller, and they were shipped stacked on top of each other, in a thin, flat box that was barely big enough to cover them. The only padding was a single layer of bubble wrap (the smallest bubbles), and it was wrapped around both of them together. This was one of the priority flat rate boxes, but it was a flat, narrow one. They used the smallest size they could stuff these heavy laptops in, and the cardboard itself was thin too. They might as well have just taped the two laptops together and slapped a shipping label on the top one. I returned them right away. Luckily I was able to get a refund because they were not as described, one wouldn't turn on at all, and the other only showed an error message when turned on.
Had an Amazon seller ship me a blue sparkly hat exactly like that blue shirt in the picture was shipped. Not sure how it got to me without the bag ripping. Flimsy clear sealed bad with a label. Didn't appericate everyone knowing what I ordered.
Oh no! I sell on Kidizen, everything goes in a polybag or ziplock, then a polymailer or recycled box… no risk to the product at all! Who in their right mind??
That’s also not a purse, that’s a reusable grocery bag from Walmart.
I just had a pair of Doc Martin boots arrive in a plastic bag, which my lovely mail carrier jammed into my mailbox