I really can¡¯t see how they can be packed any better. I have not heard of anyone who has received their bitx damaged until yours. That it just real poor luck.?
As Carl said, this kit was packed incredibly well. I was surprised to see the plastic box inside the package, to be honest. I've ordered a LOT of stuff from overseas, including all too much stuff that arrived on a slow boat from China, and some of the most fragile stuff was packed in a wad of bubble-wrap in a plastic bag, not even a cardboard box! I got a charger for rechargeable lithium coin cells that took a month to arrive on a boat, and it was just the thin cardboard RETAIL box inside one of those black and white plastic overwrap bags Banggood uses. Frankly, I'm surprised it arrived in a single piece, much less functional.
The vast majority of shippers and delivery persons (including the U. S. Snail Postal Disservice) are good, honest people who do their work the best they can every day, even when it's difficult, even when the weather sucks, even when there's a hundred things they'd RATHER be doing with their day. As is inscribed on the James Farley Post Office in New York,?"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds". It's not an official motto, but it might as well be. Most of the postal carriers I've met -- and being disabled, I have met nearly all of the ones that come to my door, as I'm always home -- are conscientious and take excellent care of my mail.
BUT...
Once in a while, I get one of THOSE postal carriers for whom that motto is something to scoff at. They don't live by that. Their motto seems to be "So long as I can sit on my bulbous butt in a little van and walk as little as possible, I'll try to get your crap to you eventually. But don't hold your breath if I have to get out of my damn van because ain't nobody got time for that." Most of the mail carriers who bring stuff to my house, if it's letters, will put them in the mailbox at the curb, but if it's parcels, will get out of the van, walk up to the porch, and put them either in front of my door or on the porch where they won't get rained on.
But the OTHER sort will DRIVE their van into my backyard, turn around, and either leave my packages on the BACK porch, where they don't have to get out of the van, leaving them to get soaked by rain, or will then pull up to the front porch and leave them on the TWO STEPS up, again, where they're not under the overhang of the porch and will get rained on. And heaven forfend I get a package that needs to be SIGNED for, and I get THAT mail carrier. Suddenly, I'll find a slip in my mailbox saying "Delivery attempted, no one home." Why? Because that fat slob was too lazy to get out of the van and bring the thing to my door and ring the bell. They'd rather just keep it in their van and claim nobody was there to sign for it, so the guy who gets it TOMORROW will have to get out of the van.
This guy is similar to the Amazon delivery person who'll mark it "Delivered - placed directly into the recipient's hands", even when you not only were home, but WAITING for the package on your PORCH. These yahoos are who the latest Amazon features, attaching a photo of the delivery location to your tracking info, and sending you a message when they are 10 stops away from your home so you can track them on a map, were implemented to catch. IF they honestly delivered it to the wrong house, you have a chance of identifying where they really took it, and you can WATCH to see if they actually came anywhere near your house when they said "Oh, I delivered that!" and DIDN'T.
Somewhere out there is a box of expensive hydrocolloid band-aids that someone got for free because the Amazon driver took it SOMEWHERE and put it "in someone's hands". It wasn't my hands, that's all I know.
But once in a great while, you run into the EVIL delivery person. They're the one that hates their job, hates the packages, hates the weather, hates their boss, and most of all, hates YOU for making them do that job delivering the packages in the weather because their boss TOLD them to. THAT delivery person is likely, if your delivery makes them do ANYTHING more than the bare minimum, to put the boot to your parcels or THROW them on the porch from about 20 feet away...or, if they're feeling particularly feisty, smack them onto your porch with a baseball bat. And woe betide the person who calls them out for doing this to their expensive packages, for that person shall receive NO package unstomped, no parcel unkicked, and no gift box unpeed.?
So, if you have received ALL of your parcels from a given location in a destroyed condition, and NOBODY ELSE has this problem, the chances of you receiving kits that Ashhar just HAPPENED to feel like running through a hammer mill are slim and none, and Slim just left town. The chances are much higher that you got THAT delivery person and somehow ticked them off so they look for the parcels you want the most and beat them with their delivery van's fire extinguisher before they throw them overhand onto your porch, bouncing them off the wall before driving across your lawn on the way out.
Talk to your postmaster or the appropriate delivery service immediately if you receive damaged parcels. ESPECIALLY if parcels from a particular location arrive damaged OFTEN. For all we know, the guy who delivered your BitX kits has some beef with people from India and specifically mangles those parcels. Or you may have ticked them off somehow so they fold, spindle and mutilate anything sent to you just because you're SUCH a prince.
