I ordered two Periodic Table of The Elements charts from a scientific supply company. The long cardboard mailing tubes arrived via UPS with a lot of slapdash taping on each end. I opened up one tube and examined the chart and wondered where on earth I was gonna display it because it was bigger than I expected--like classroom sized.
It was printed on glossy paper. I had asked the saleswoman if they were laminated and she said yes, but it wasn't. It was printed on glossy paper, and that ain't lamination.

Anyway, I opened up the second tube that looked chewed up on one end, and the tube was empty. So I called the company and said it seems somewhere along the way someone had opened the tube and stolen my Periodic Table and retaped the end of the tube. So she sent another chart via UPS.

A week later the replacement arrived. The end of this cardboard mailing tube looked as if someone had ripped off about six inches or more from one end and tape was hodge podged over the end, with the chart sticking out. The chart was rolled tight with a rubber band around it. Someone had torn open the tube, taken out the chart, decided they didn't want it, rolled it up, rubber banded it and stuck it back in and taped it up.
The company said they don't put rubber bands around charts etc. so it happened in UPS land.

I called UPS and told them someone had tampered with my mail.
It irritates me for someone to do that and I'm sure it's against the law, but when I called the UPS terminal in Hattiesburg, an employee took a "report" and didn't ask for a tracking number or any details and I haven't heard from them since. In other words they don't give a toot about what happens to your mail while it's in their hands. That's the impression UPS has left me with and I'm sorry about that.

susil