[Leica] Tip: Kodak Mailers

[Doug Herr <71247.3542@compuserve.com>]

On Sun, 17 May 1998, Art Searle wrote:

>Tip:  When using Kodak Mailers put your 35mm film cassettes in the
>plastic containers before you put the film inside the mailer.  This
>will keep the film cassette cap from popping off during rough handling
>by the post office.

>I learned this lesson the hard way.  Having just switch to exclusively
>using slide film for  a while, I decided to use mailers to save some
>money.  I didn't put the film cassettes inside the plastic containers
>before putting them in the mailer because I didn't think they would
>fit, but they do.  I managed to get away without a problem for a while
>but I lost 7 shots on the beginning of my last roll of film and got a
>"PhotoGram" (form letter) from Kodak that read "To help prevent
>shipping damage to processing orders, be sure to use film containers
>when they are supplied".

>Anyone else ever have this problem?


I've always used the plastic "can" but recently that wasn't good =

enough.  The US Post Office mashed one mailer so badly that nearly =

every photograph was damaged or destroyed.  I had no idea there
were so many rampaging elephants between Sacramento and =

San Francisco.  Post Office customer service wasn't very =

helpful - obviously the damage was my fault for using their =

"service".

The closing of Kodak's Palo Alto lab was was not enough to make
me switch from Kodachrome yet but another incident like the last
one may push me over the edge.  The Palo Alto lab was 10 minutes
by bicycle from my (then) home.

- -Doug