Suppliers using inside-out USPS boxes...

[tunes]

Just like I called the police on the guy that hit another car with his door in the parking lot and drove off. He just looked as his car to make sure his car was okay, didn't even glance at the car he hit, and took off. :angry:

Actually, that was a waste of breath. Calling the police would accomplish nothing because public parking lots are fair game. As far as I know, it's the same in most states. I was hit in a parking lot when a guy was backing out, he looked at me, put it in gear and took off. I called the police and they basically said - too bad, so sad.

I must be oblivious to all this. I don't really care what the inside of my box looks like - I just pull the stuff out and throw the box away. If someone has ever sent me an inside out box, I've never seen it.

[The Animal Farm]

On the ligher side for a moment...I still wanna know how the devil they get the boxes turned inside out! I have enough trouble putting them together the way they are supposed to go. I mean it's as bad as putting together one of those banker boxes. Insert Tab P into slot Z, I end with a box that looks like it's been floating in the dead letter office for a century. If I do manage to get it folded correctly, then comes the nightmare of reinforcing the edges. TAF + shipping tape = one thumb secured above return address and one pinkie securely taped into slot X.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Kiki's Mom]

Let me ask this: how is receiving a stolen item, keeping it and not reporting it any different than what I did with the cat litter?

[HedgeMom]

Actually, that was a waste of breath. Calling the police would accomplish nothing because public parking lots are fair game. As far as I know, it's the same in most states. I was hit in a parking lot when a guy was backing out, he looked at me, put it in gear and took off. I called the police and they basically said - too bad, so sad.

I must be oblivious to all this. I don't really care what the inside of my box looks like - I just pull the stuff out and throw the box away. If someone has ever sent me an inside out box, I've never seen it.

Peggy, in MD leaving the scene of an accident is illegal. And if you get the tag number, we will actively pursuit identifying the driver. BUT you do need to be able to give a tag number and identify the driver. If you don't have either one, then there is nothing that the police can do.

But yes, property damage accidents will not take precedent over other, more important law enforcement and you will have to wait for an officer if they are busy.

[Riven]

Murder is wrong. Murder is worse than stealing. But stealing is still wrong. Stealing someone's car stereo is worse than stealing a box. But stealing a box is still wrong.

I just had to laugh at this.. if you don't think it's funny (but to the point!) read it out loud! :)

And I do have to say that I send my very large orders out in used free boxes... they're almost all brown but have "medical supplies" stamped on them. I'm sorry if recieving chin stuff instead of medical supplies offends anyone when they get the box... :rofl: I get them free from the vet....

[ChicagoKim]

Actually, that was a waste of breath. Calling the police would accomplish nothing because public parking lots are fair game. As far as I know, it's the same in most states. I was hit in a parking lot when a guy was backing out, he looked at me, put it in gear and took off. I called the police and they basically said - too bad, so sad.
I also thought this was the case. But a couple of days before Christmas, a lady in a Jeep Cherokee slammed into the side of my car in a Toys 'R Us parking lot. She told me the same thing -- that the police won't do anything in a parking lot. I called them anyway, just in case. The police said not to move and they would be right there to file a report. The only thing they said they can't do in a parking lot is issue a ticket. But thanks to the police report, my car is perfect again and all it cost me was the hassle to get it fixed.

[Kiki's Mom]

As for the cat litter, if I was in so much of a hurry that I couldn't go in and pay for it, I would at least pull off the UPC code and bring it with me next time. And I would lose sleep over it until it was paid for. Not because the store needed the money, because I have I live with myself and big or small, intentional or not, theft is theft.

Well to each their own. I lose sleep over the dog that got dumped at the shelter with bruises on her belly from being kicked. I lose sleep over the couple that brought their 10 year old lab diagnosed with cancer to the shelter and wanted to "trade it for a healthy dog". I lose sleep over the 8 year old girl I mentor who gets made fun of every day for wearing the same clothes and being dirty. These are the things I lose sleep over, not "stealing" a $7 box of cat litter. If an animal lover cuts some corners to provide reasonably priced and much needed supplies to another animal lover, it's not going to keep me up at night. I guess that's why I find this debate so ridiculous. There are WAY bigger issues to fret over. If stealing boxes is what keeps you up at night then I'm envious of your life.

[ChicagoKim]

I just had to laugh at this.. if you don't think it's funny (but to the point!) read it out loud! :)

And I do have to say that I send my very large orders out in used free boxes... they're almost all brown but have "medical supplies" stamped on them. I'm sorry if recieving chin stuff instead of medical supplies offends anyone when they get the box... :rofl: I get them free from the vet....
Yeah, it's funny that it has to even be said.

And I don't think anyone thinks twice about receiving used boxes from home-based businesses. Totally different :) Hmmmmm... unless you somehow ordered them from the vet under the false pretense of using them only for a particular service with said vet...... hmmmmm :rofl:

[lilchinchilla]

I guess I must be bad then. I re use any boxes I get here, and ship supplies out in them. I don't care if they say dog food on them or whatever. If it is something I bought and got sent to me, and is durable for shipping, I use it.
I don't mark the prices of supplies up like other companies do(shoot me for adding 20 cents onto an item rather than marking up 200% like the wholesaler wants :lol: .) and rather save any buyers who do get supplies from me, any cost I can save them.

I can go to Canada post here and pay $4.50 or $5.50 for a box from them, and charge it to the person as a shipping expense - but why bother when there are perfectly good boxes here for free, and that person saves $$$? Boxes I got supplies or food or whatever in and bought from some store? **** knows, maybe I am saving a few trees by re using boxes.

Who cares if the box happens to be a pampers diaper box or a shoe box or whatever, that you get your supplies in? I've probably used a UPS or USPS box at some point or other anyhow. I do get items from the US in them on occasion. I wouldn't know about it being illegal - I am in Canada afterall and those companies are not here.

Have you ever thought they could just be re using the box after someone had shipped them something in it, btw? As that is what I do, and I'd hate for some client to think I am "stealing" something, when I am reusing it to save them an added expense to shipping.

[Riven]

Uhm yup that's what I did, see I told the vet I needed them to ship medical supplies!

If an animal lover cuts some corners to provide reasonably priced and much needed supplies to another animal lover, it's not going to keep me up at night. I guess that's why I find this debate so ridiculous. So let me get this straight you're 35 years old and don't understand how these wonderful pet people cutting small corners raises everyone else postage? I mean come on, if they want to use the free boxes pay the Priority cost! Secondly there are LOTS of places to get free boxes, check with any local grocery store, these are FREE boxes, and using them is not increasing our postage. If abuse of the privelege continues maybe they'll stop offering free boxes and the people who use it properly will have to raise their prices to make up for it. I don't charge handling to make up for the high cost of shipping.
Now if you gave that poor little girl you mentor new clothes every week to wear to school and she took them and sold them to someone so she could have the money for candy or what not, would you be upset? If she was abusing the privlege you were giving her would you keep doing it? I doubt it. It's no different. Just because it's a semi-government agency it's no different.

Serena, it's different to reuse boxes and to order free boxes for that use. You can tell if a box has been reused, there's places were the tape and labels were probably ripped off or are still there. There is nothing that says you can't reuse them, it's that you can't order them and MISUSE them. My boxes usually come with paw prints all over them so you could tell if someone reused one I sent! :rofl: