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Packing and posting sports cards
Sleeve, holder, tape, bag, board, rigid mailer. Six steps and a card arrives as it left.
Packing and posting bags and accessories
Stuff it, wrap the hardware, and never post a bag flat in a soft envelope.
Packing and posting jewellery and watches
Small, valuable, and the one category where a lost parcel is a serious loss. Pack for that.
Packing and posting cricket memorabilia
Bats are long, frames are glass, and ink fades. Three different problems in one category.
Packing and posting comics
Board it, bag it, and make the parcel rigid enough that the comic is not the stiffest thing in it.
Packing and posting posters and cinema memorabilia
A tube for what was rolled, boards for what was folded, and never the other way round.
Packing and posting sarees and ethnic wear
Fold along existing folds, never a new one, and bag against damp.
Packing and posting video games
Cases crack, hubs let go, and a cartridge loose in a big box arrives scuffed. All avoidable.
Packing and posting coins and currency
Small, valuable, and the one category where a lost parcel is a serious claim.
Packing and posting records
Records split seams, warp in heat and get punched through at the corners. Three failures, three fixes.
Packing and posting trading cards
Sleeve, toploader, tape it so it cannot slide, rigid outer. And keep it out of the heat.
Packing and posting books and films
Books are damaged at the spine and the corners, and ruined by damp. All three are packing problems.
Packing and posting sneakers
The shoe box is not the shipping box. That one mistake accounts for most sneaker damage in transit.
Selling from outside a metro
Two real disadvantages, and one advantage that beats both.
Selling and shipping around festivals
Demand goes up, courier capacity goes down, and the gap between them is where promises break.
Shipping across India, realistically
Metro to metro is easy. Everything else varies more than any courier's website admits.
Packing so it arrives in one piece
The specific failures, by material — and the rule that nothing should be able to move.
Charging for delivery
Free, flat, by weight, by order value, or free above a threshold. What each one actually costs you.
Delivery zones, explained
Five ways to say where you deliver — radius, PIN codes, districts, states, or all of India.
Setting up delivery before your first show
Do this before you list anything. It is the ordering mistake almost every new seller makes.
My item has not arrived
What to do, in order, and what happens to your money at each step.
How to track an order
Where tracking appears, what each status means, and the gap between "posted" and the courier admitting it exists.
What does pickup-only mean?
The item cannot be posted, you agree to collect it before you bid, and there is a charge if you never do. All of it is shown up front.
How delivery is worked out
Each item carries its own delivery rules, the price is shown before you bid, and you pay for one parcel per show rather than one per item.
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