Good day all, I received a pipe through ebay this morning, a lovely stanwell in need of some TLC. I never like to complain/criticise those who use a lot of packing material to ensure the pipe or the tobacco will arrive to its destination in a good health. However, the pipe had been wrapped tightly in bubble wrap with a lot of parcel tape wrapped all the way around. This was in a cardboard sleeve and that itself in a bubblewrap envelope.
I got the impression that this thing could survive anything any courier could throw at it, but aside from it being a pain to remove, unless you use a knife/scissors which I don't like doing for fear of scratching the briar,trying to pull it off bit by bit, I could feel the steam starting to turn in the shank, I left it be and had to use a small knife in the end for fear of snapping the tenon!
What are you experiences with good/bad packaging? What do you do yourselves when sending/trading bits? I always separate and individually wrap the stem and briar.
I got the impression that this thing could survive anything any courier could throw at it, but aside from it being a pain to remove, unless you use a knife/scissors which I don't like doing for fear of scratching the briar,trying to pull it off bit by bit, I could feel the steam starting to turn in the shank, I left it be and had to use a small knife in the end for fear of snapping the tenon!
What are you experiences with good/bad packaging? What do you do yourselves when sending/trading bits? I always separate and individually wrap the stem and briar.
