Why plastic bags to ship fragile items?

[OldTrucker]

Luckily nothing inside was damaged. Came from Japan. Was scanned in Cincinnati 8 times over 5 days!

Edited Saturday at 10:37 PM by OldTrucker

[stavanzer]

Lazy, Carelessness.

[slusher]

A box oft to be standard but Amazon does the same thing..

[stitchdup]

was it from a shop? if you select small packet for shipping that what you get. ordering 2 kits gets you a box but for 1 kit you need to ask

[espo]

It's cheaper than putting it in a box for protection. 

[Bugatti Fan]

Kit boxes are designed to be bought off a shelf in a shop, not to survive the rigours of shipping.

If we keep accepting i items in damaged  boxes it will keep on happening.  Maybe manufacturers should seriously look at the thickness of their own packaging in view of the way many sellers just either stick a label on the kit box for shipping or slip it info a flimsy bag.I

If manufacturers don't want to do that, maybe placing a fragile, this item needs to be boxed for individual shipping warning as part of the printed box design.

Edited Tuesday at 06:37 AM by Bugatti Fan

[iamsuperdan]

I oredered a kit off of Amazon and it was sent in a bag. When it arrived, it looked like the driver sat on it. Took it out of the bag, box totally crushed. Somehow, the contents were entirely undamaged. Perfect.

Either way, I sent the pics of the crushed box and bagged content to Amazon and told them it was badly damaged, so they issued a full refund. And I bought another that was shipped in a box.