PakMail215

Even if it is a lawn decoration. 

Just some pictures of items we are working to ship out this week.

Is It Full? By Chris Fredrickson (edit by Mark Eades) Don’t they drive you crazy? – The clients who seldom pick up their mail? – I’m sure we all have them. The letters and flyers fill up the box. Almost daily we have to rearrange the pieces to get the new envelopes in. Eventually the mail is slipping out onto the floor, so we bundle it, put it above the boxes, fill out an overflow slip, and it starts all over. Our worst offender is a physician who is currently on “mommy” leave and uses this as her business address. When she finally shows up, she is always surprised at how much there is. I’ll bet you have heard the comments, too. “It’s probably all junk mail,” they will say. But, surprise – there is always at least one gem there – an invitation for a date now past, a birthday card with a check, a certified letter from the IRS, or a bill that should have gone to their home. “Oh, I wish I had known,” they say. “Maybe next time you should let me know.” ---WE should let THEM know? The...

Off and on someone in the store will discover an interesting/silly idea with Bubble Wrap. We will share these under Bubble Wrap Interesting/Silly ideas. Bubble Wrap burglar alarm – Make a burglar alarm for your home. Lay Bubble Wrap on the floor inside your doors and windows. When a thief breaks in and walks across the floor, the “pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop” will alert you to the intruder.

Another day at PakMail another item going out.  Today was a 80+ lb broken serve.  Team work made it another successful project done.

Do you have “Poly” bags? That was a question a customer called and asked about.   When I first heard what he said I was not sure what he was talking about. Did he say Pauly Bag like a name, did he mean he was looking for a bag size, or maybe something completely different. I was confused, and so I asked him to repeat himself.  Then he said, “well if you are in the packing business, you should know what a poly bag is…” and went on to be quite rude. What made me not get rude back to him was the thought that he was having a bad day or that this was not the first interaction he had that sounded “clueless” to him that day. I just said thank you and that I would go look up what he was talking about. I even went as far to ask him to spell what he was asking for.   But sadly, by that time he was confident I didn’t know what I was doing and hung up. I know what a "poly" bag is and if I had understood him when he first asked the situation would have been different.  But ...