Boxes And Packaging by John Pawlett
As a board member in an international shipping company, I can tell you that boxes and packaging are more complicated than you might at first think. When many people think about boxes and packaging, they think first about the type of containers that are most common.
I do not know off hand how high a percentage of the goods sent by mail are sent in plain cardboard boxes, but I know it is in the 80s or 90s. Things like books, clothing, and even comparatively fragile items like dishes are often sent with standard packaging and boxes. They are simply wrapped in bubble wrap and put into a box filled with Styrofoam peanuts. Then whoever has sent them sits back and simply hopes for the best.
There are, however, much more expensive and high-tech choices for boxes and packaging that are sometimes used for special orders. From my experience, I would say that something like 95 percent of the stuff that is put into sturdy cardboard boxes, wrapped up in the correct way makes it there safe and sound, but for some rare and precious items, 95 percent is simply not enough. For example, if you are sending an antique vase by freight, you will probably want to be completely, 100 percent sure that nothing at all bad can happen to it, no matter what. If that is the case, you will ask for more than cardboard and air bubbles.
Advanced boxes and packaging are often actually not much more complicated than the simple ones. Hard plastic cases, with the proper padding built in, decrease the danger to most shipments to almost nothing. Unless the case is forcibly beaten repeatedly against the wall or run over by a truck several times, it is quite unlikely that anything at all could even possibly happen to what is inside. Usually, when we are asked to box and package an antique, or something else equally valuable, we build a custom case for it out of plastic before we send it out. In 23 years, we have only had one failure with this approach.
Then again, there are certain items that need even more sophisticated boxes and packaging. For example, if something is extremely temperature sensitive, the boxes and packaging must include a means to regulate the temperature, which is extremely costly and difficult to make. Only a few companies handle orders of this kind, but we have stayed away from them.
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Smallville: Chloe Sullivan Not Appearing in Comic Books by Groshan Fabiola
Smallville fans were more than just excited when it was announced last month that Chloe Sullivan will become part of the Superman comic books in issue number 674. Unfortunately, DC Comics Executive Editor Dan DiDio recently announced that the move from television to comic books isn’t going to happen. Apparently fans were misled and are now out of luck.
“Chloe is an exciting character on the television show, and we had hoped to work her into DC continuity,” DiDio said in a recent conversation with Newsarama.com. “Unfortunately, the stars did not align properly, and even though we had announced it, she will not be appearing in any of the issues of Superman or Action Comics.”
That was all DiDio had to say about Chloe’s sudden disappearing act. It was probably some sort of rights issue, or that Superman writer Kurt Busiek just found no way of incorporating the teenage character into the adult world of Clark Kent. Initially, some fans were disappointed to hear that DC Comics wanted to repurpose the character, as they believed that Chloe’s original traits was what made her memorable and special.
BuddyTV readers also reacted intensely to this issue, as they aired their thoughts through their comments. Gen717 said, “”Whoever this character is they chose to call Chloe in the comics is NOT our Chloe. They are basically going to strip her of everything I love about her, make her a different character and call her Chloe? No, I’m not buying a comic that grossly distorts a character I love. Sorry DC, but what on earth are you thinking?”
cecil44 shared the same sentiments, saying, “I’m actually really really disappointed at the DC version of ‘Chloe’! They want to strip her off everything that makes Chloe Sullivan on Smallville such a special character! There is no way I would buy a comic book that distorts her character like this. The whole reason that Chloe is soo great and soo special is the fact that she’s a reporter first and Clark ‘s best friend! But like someone else said, I guess we can’t really know until we see how they will introduce her.”
Well, we won’t be seeing how Kurt Busiek and the DC Comics team will be introducing Chloe, as they already postponed the adaptation. Having seen their plans, Chloe might as well stay inside our television screens.
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