* Packaging
@ 1996-07-03 11:18 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-07-03 17:01 ` Packaging Jan Vroonhof
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1996-07-03 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
Well, now that the t-shirt is at the printer and the orders and money
have begin to trickle in (checking my snailmailbox is much more fun
than usual, these days), I need to find out how to package the
t-shirts. Two considerations: strength and weight.
I've gotten a couple of t-shirts through the mail before, and they
both arrived with their packaging totally torn to shreds. Wimpy paper
envelopes simply won't do very well -- the t-shirt is very soft, so
when other packages bump into the t-shirt envelope, it gets torn. I
could package the shirts in stainless steel boxes to avoid this
problem, but then we run into weight problems. (Norway has a ramped
price system for packages -- packages over 250g cost twice as much as
packages under 250g, and a t-shirt weighs something like 230-240g.)
One possible solution would be to use some sort of strong plastic and
roll the s-shirts up, but that feels kinda yucky. Hmn. How about if
I roll the s-shirts very tight, roll brown paper around them and apply
adhesive tape liberally? Or perhaps a plastic/paper combo? Yes, I
could roll the t-shirts up, stuff them in a light plastic bag and roll
the resulting thing in brown paper. Perhaps I should try playing
rugby with a test package first to find out how strong a package I
need...
Another problem of Earth-shattering proportions solved! Can the Nobel
peace price in physics be far off!? Huh? Huh?
--
"Yes. The journey through the human heart
would have to wait until some other time."
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* Re: Packaging
1996-07-03 11:18 Packaging Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 1996-07-03 17:01 ` Jan Vroonhof
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From: Jan Vroonhof @ 1996-07-03 17:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> One possible solution would be to use some sort of strong plastic and
> roll the s-shirts up, but that feels kinda yucky. Hmn. How about if
> I roll the s-shirts very tight, roll brown paper around them and apply
> adhesive tape liberally? Or perhaps a plastic/paper combo? Yes, I
> could roll the t-shirts up, stuff them in a light plastic bag and roll
> the resulting thing in brown paper. Perhaps I should try playing
I don't know about the Norway tarif system, but in most countries the
package gets more expensive if it diverts far from the "thick letter"
profile. Why use a rugged envellope with a cardboard sheet folded in
the T-shirt for strength? Thats the way most shirts are shipped I
believe.
Jan
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