What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Ack]

Jinx, you are among friends. As long as you take care of your family, be all you want to be.

Not to get on my psychological soapbox, but I'm going to anyway. Your daughter is probably too young to understand what is going on with ya right now. It's your life, but I would strongly advise against using your daughter as a sounding board. I'd let her ask the questions when they come and not explain anything without question.

Again, that's all up to you, but kids are smart cookies that can usually pick up on things without having everything being explained to them. Hope that makes some sense.

I don't like talking about my parenting to anybody, because honestly it's none of their business (not to be rude). However, to be clear, my house normally takes a pretty gender neutral stance. Girls can be ninjas and boys can be princesses if they want to be. She's a kid, so at this point it doesn't really matter. That said, if she asks me a question about anything, she will get the truth in one form or another depending on her age/maturity. I will never lie to my child or cover something up just because I don't feel comfortable explaining it. If she asks me where babies come from I may not give her the details, but I'm definitely not telling her a stork drops them off at your doorstep.

MAJOR F**KING FROWN
Anybody have any experience with this:
So I won the PERFECT gift for my daughter's birthday on ebay. An extremely hard to find and expensive Godzilla picture book for children (She loves Godzilla and she loves bedtime stories). The dude ships it between a folded up piece of cardboard with tape around it, and then the mail lady folds it in half to cram it into my mailbox.

Who the hell should I be pissed at!? Is this even disputable? This is a collector's item on top of it being a gift...

Pictures:

A couple of things:

1. It isn't the sender's fault, so I don't think you should dispute the deal with him, though you may contact him about it.

2. Find out if there was any insurance on the package.

[Luke]

If the kid is happy, let it slide.

Stinks, but again, if the kid doesn't care you shouldn't.

[jinx]

A couple of things:

1. It isn't the sender's fault, so I don't think you should dispute the deal with him, though you may contact him about it.

2. Find out if there was any insurance on the package.

1. Of course, I'm just pissed off.

2. I'm guessing not, because I don't see it anywhere. All I can find is "Shipping service USPS First Class Package", but I'm not sure if I'm looking in the right area. Guess I'm screwed?

[MrPopo]

I'd be pissed at both. That's pretty piss-poor packaging and he didn't even think to write "do not fold" on it, which might have saved you some grief. At the same time, your mail carrier obviously didn't give two shits and folded the damn thing. It's not like rolling up a magazine to get it in there (and if it had been shipped like a magazine I bet she could have rolled the book a bit to get it to fit in). In terms of dispute, you could probably bring it up with the pictures and show how the terrible packaging job led to it getting damaged.

[jinx]

I don't want to seem like a total dick over a children's book, but this is a really hard to find collector's item on top of that.

I admit I got it for really cheap, but still...

[Ack]

I'd be pissed at both. That's pretty piss-poor packaging and he didn't even think to write "do not fold" on it, which might have saved you some grief. At the same time, your mail carrier obviously didn't give two shits and folded the damn thing. It's not like rolling up a magazine to get it in there (and if it had been shipped like a magazine I bet she could have rolled the book a bit to get it to fit in). In terms of dispute, you could probably bring it up with the pictures and show how the terrible packaging job led to it getting damaged.

I don't think it would have mattered. I've had mail carriers do some pretty dumb things.

The worst thing I've ever had a mail carrier do was while living in an apartment where they pull open the face plate of all mailboxes at the same time to put in the mail. The carrier put a package in my mailbox that was bigger than the door for me to pull it out. I had to get a knife and carve the package open to extract the item inside and then cut up the box to pull it all out.

[jp1]

I disagree that it isn't the fault of the sender. If you know that an item is rare/collectible and it is expensive it should be packed and shipped with some manner of respect. Sent in a shitty piece of cardboard and tape wrapped around it probably had the mail carrier thinking it was just some garbage. I would definitely take issue with the seller.

I would never send anything like that, much less something of substantial value.

[CFFJR]

I don't think it would have mattered. I've had mail carriers do some pretty dumb things.

The worst thing I've ever had a mail carrier do was while living in an apartment where they pull open the face plate of all mailboxes at the same time to put in the mail. The carrier put a package in my mailbox that was bigger than the door for me to pull it out. I had to get a knife and carve the package open to extract the item inside and then cut up the box to pull it all out.

I've had this happen twice.

Makes no sense. There are large parcel boxes right next to the regular boxes.

[aaron]

if you got it for really cheap just ask for a partial refund. they'll likely oblige.

[jinx]

if you got it for really cheap just ask for a partial refund. they'll likely oblige.

That's what I ended up doing. Still kind of sour about it, but whatever. Just waiting for the seller's response.