Plastic vs Paper: Pick The Right Packing Tape
1Why does WCC use plastic tape to seal there boxes ?? I’ve had four out of six boxes that were barely held together on the bottom with ONE piece of ripped plastic tape. Amazon will ship a bag of feathers and use reinforced paper tape. WD you can and should do better.
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The tape was fine when the boxes were sturdier. The current boxes (which, sadly, a number of companies other than just WCC have started using) are so squishy and inadequately reinforced that the tape is also compromised during the shipping process as the boxes get manhandled along the way. At least FedEx re-tapes the boxes. UPS doesn’t bother. Better tape couldn’t hurt but the bottom line is that the shipping boxes are crap. They fall squarely into the “barely good enough” category, which pairs perfectly with less than adequate service offered by UPS.
Thankfully, there are still some wineries and retail outlets that use sturdy shipping boxes. I got a case from Empire Wine a couple weeks ago that I probably could have driven my truck over without damaging it!
@chipgreen
although to crush them down to get in the trash can you have to soak them in water before they collapse!
Oh man I love Empires boxes
@chipgreen @ScottW58 don’t you breakdown and recycle? Lol, seems easier.
@chipgreen @kitkat34
Of course but if you want more that 1 or 2 box’s going out at a time you need to break them down.
@kitkat34 @ScottW58
We have a pretty big recycle can (and they will take boxes stacked next to the can) so don’t necessarily have to break down boxes but I have always tried to consolidate. You can do that with the older style boxes by stacking the trays from 2 boxes into one, then jamming that box into the one that the other trays came from. Can’t do that with the newer, flimsier boxes used by WCC.
@chipgreen @kitkat34
Yeah I live in California so they won’t pickup anything unless it’s in the can anymore ugh. Cause too much to ask you know or it might offend someone lol
A recent UC shipment
It would help if those molded pulp packers fit snugly into the box, instead of the box being too large leaving room for the contents to rattle around. And tape on the bottom would be a plus as well.
FYI, WCC does ~NOT~ do the packing on these, the fulfillment center does; so don’t rag on WD or his crew.
@rjquillin
I am impressed that UPS actually did do some retaping for you, not that they had much choice with that one. I thought maybe mine looked like that because of how far they had to travel but you are in-state and getting that kind of damage. Yikes! Totally agree that its the poor interior design leaving big air gaps that lead to damage but the cardboard itself seems… soft? Especially in the summer months when the humidity is high. “Least acceptable” seems to be the normal threshold for many service companies these days.
Finally, the packing is fine. The boxes are crap and Casemates orders don’t arrive in any better shape just because WD’s crew dropped the bottles into the pre-formed slots. Same boxes.
@chipgreen
The re-taping was done at the store when I made the pick-up.
They got two bottles.
@chipgreen @rjquillin
Are those case boxes? They look bigger.
@chipgreen @ScottW58
They are larger than the vertical molded pulp bottle carriers inside, but only by an inch or so in all three axes; hence the destruction.
@chipgreen @rjquillin @ScottW58 I’ve had that happen from multiple shippers, too.