Summer Heat / Mail Shipping Problems

[megatrends]

Okay got a record Friday in the mail and it was warped with a middle of the record warp like a sag from heat exposure.

It was left in my front hallway which gets very hot. We are in a heat wave type thing with temps in the mid 90s Fahrenheit. Should I just not order records until it cools down? My front hall gets to be (guessing) 110F (Fahrenheit for you metric folks so you don;t think it is 110c lol) maybe when it is that hot.

I can't leave a note for the mailman since the place he left it is actually the safest place to leave other than giving him permission to enter my house while I am not home which obviously I am not going to do or leave the house unlocked.

The rear porch is in direct sun all day so no good there.

What do you guys do when it is hot? Just don't order anything?

I have about 6 purchases coming over this week as it wasn't hot when I ordered them. I am afraid I will be rebuying all of them later because they melted.

This lost record was a $3 purchase so no big whoop but I have an $80 record coming as well as a couple of $20 ones along with the normal (for me) $5 to $8 range.

I have tracking numbers and can get in the general day they will come but I can't just take off from work to go put it in the house after delivery.

Not sure why i am even making this post, like any of you can make the sun stop being hot. Maybe I am venting lol out of fear of some losses this week.

[jc_the_trucker]

Here's an idea, get a foam cooler and put a small piece of dry ice in it. Put letter to your mailman on the door "please put my mail in here, my letters and packages are complaining about the heat."

This is why I've been having mail order records shipped to my dad's office. The Texas sun is brutal. Maybe get a box at your local post office during the summer? Realistically speaking, where you ship it to is only going to keep it out of direct sun. The trailers they put the mail in are not temperature controlled and if the driver likes to sleep in the day, it will get to well over 130 in there. (I hate pulling the mail, it makes the term "going postal" make perfect sense)

[danieldust]

Can you have records shipped to your work address?

[megatrends]

Here's an idea, get a foam cooler and put a small piece of dry ice in it. Put letter to your mailman on the door "please put my mail in here, my letters and packages are complaining about the heat."

This is why I've been having mail order records shipped to my dad's office. The Texas sun is brutal. Maybe get a box at your local post office during the summer? Realistically speaking, where you ship it to is only going to keep it out of direct sun. The trailers they put the mail in are not temperature controlled and if the driver likes to sleep in the day, it will get to well over 130 in there. (I hate pulling the mail, it makes the term "going postal" make perfect sense)

That may not sound as ridiculous as you may think. I wonder if an Igloo ice chest with NO ice in it would keep cool air from the AC in the house until the next day when I get home. I could ask the mailman to put any records that are "media mail" in it for me. The front hallway is separate from the AC cooled house so THAT door is always unlocked.

Interesting ... thanks for the silly suggestion, it may just be crazy enough to work. If it keeps the air even at 80 degrees instead of the 110+ it gets in there it may be enough.

I will try it out tonight with nothing in it just to see how much heat does get in there.

I have a cold front going through later this week so I need this for the next 3 days at least as records are coming this week. I got one today but was here and caught the mailman as he delivered it.

Can you have records shipped to your work address?

I wish but no, I don't want anything "personal" done there for reasons I won't go into here. But good suggestion for sure.