How does Amazon send books in terms of packaging?

[Alexandra M]

You would think a worldwide company works with the same policies everywhere, but apparently it varies from country to country. Perhaps even from department to department.
Overall here it's really bad. They're almost completely careless about it. To the point that it's just not fun for me to order online. You can decide to not order anything anymore online, but sooner or later you see something you truly like. Plus there are much fewer actual stores anymore (a lot of branches disappeared here in recent years) and not all real stores can get the items you can get online.
The decision for me always comes down to: do I want it damaged or not at all? It's that bad. It wasn't always like that, some 15 years ago I received more often well-packaged items, but it's become real bad since then. I still get something well-packaged once in a while, but it's the minority.
Of course, as a ruie, I never order real expensive things online.

I find it quite sickening to be honest. It's a matter of purely money-thinking. They don't do what's best for the customer or for the product. They're doing something that's bad, but they don't change it, because they still make enough money.

Thanks for letting me know about Amazon. I have ordered from thm only twice so don't yet have a clear picture of what thy are like. I have a one month free trial of Amazon Prime right now but won't be subscribing to it. I have used eBay.UK for the past few years for postcards but it is getting very expensive plus the postage has almost doubled since I first started ordering. But what has caused me to stop ordering is delivery time. Up until a few months ago delivery time was 2 - 2 1/2 weeks which is great but suddenly it changed and is 8 to 10 weeks. Between the high postage and delivery time I stopped ordering cards. To have a Lot of 50 regular cards sent it was a cost of 11.70pounds which equals about $20.00. That's ridiculous.