Hats off to Army Painter for a recent order that was delivered today.
I'll let the pictures speak for themselves, but the point of my post is to say that this is not overkill packaging. You are buying NEW paint brushes in NEW condition.
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A lot of companies and Ebay sellers I'm sure are tempted and do indeed throw paint brushes into a padded envelope, because "most times there's no problem".
Bzzzzzzzzzzzt. Wrong answer. Tiny paint brushes are essentially little more than expensive,fragile, thin sticks with bristles attached. The bristles have to be impervious to being crushed and the handles have to be impervious to being snapped in half.
A padded envelope by itself does NOT properly prevent either of those elements!
At the very least paint brushes need to be packed for shipment with a corrugated cardboard wrap that completely surrounds the brushes. However, an inner padded envelope inside an outer corrugated box is really the correct and best way to do it.
Sellers/vendors – Remember, I as the customer am MUCH more likely to order from you again if I see that you genuinely care about coming as close to possible to guaranteeing that new products get to me in new condition, which is the condition that I paid for. I'm not paying for "well it got there and it was only slightly scuffed or bent."
Please pack paint brushes in a true protective outer container, not merely a padded piece of manila folder!