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The office is the welcome point for international tour-goers and represents H&I Adventures' focus on hospitality and design excellence. As such, the clients briefed Loader Monteith to deliver architecture that foregrounds and sets a high standard of Scottish design experienced throughout tours. The two-story H&I Adventures office sits to the northeast of the plot boundary, wrapped in slim burnt larch cladding punctuated by a rich corten corner detail and recessed glazing designed to capture the far-reaching views across Beauly Firth.
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The office features a workshop, two showers and changing rooms, and a kitchen and breakout space at ground level. The kitchen faces south, overlooking the landscaped car park and mature treeline through a frameless glazed corner. It is lit by floor-to-ceiling sliding glazing, allowing staff and visitors to enjoy level access to the outdoors year-round. A warm material palette of ochre, graphite, and timber cabinetry defines the kitchen, offset by modern white tiling with black detailing. Clean white walls, polished concrete flooring, and timber ceiling paneling maintain a contemporary feeling inside, ensuring the verdant surroundings take focus to create close connections to the landscape.
I've been in an ongoing battle with the local USPS as despite the ebay standard envelope allowing up to two top loaders, the local post office refuses to ship them if they have toploaders. I can pay extra at the post office for non-sortable, which I've done, but each time I do, tracking info is never updated and I get dinged in the metrics. Some people have also reported they never got them. The local PO has also sent back standard envelopes with toploaders if I've been the buyer. Our local USPS is very shortstaffed and I don't trust them with anything they can't just scan and throw into the pile. I've switched to either using lots, or single cards with first class shipping that eats into profits, but I have a host of lower-priced cards I can't compete with the standard shipping prices this way. I've been thinking of maybe using semi-rigid holders like Card Saver I instead of top loaders. I'm concerned about cards getting bent this way or damaged. I'm looking for thoughts and advice as I'm staring at a lot of cards without a great way to ship them in a way I'm confident they won't get damaged.
I've sent hundreds in card savers within standard envelopes and not had one complaint about damage. I often alternate between that and normal top loaders when shipping 1-2 cards depending on my supply situation. I think you'll be fine. With that said, I've been able to send 2 top loaders in a standard envelope when I put them side by side and not stack them. Usually that will push you into the 2-ounce category for standard envelope, so be sure to pay for at least 2 ounces if you're going with more than one top loader.
I'll add that when I ship standard envelope, I use the #10 business envelopes and tri-fold a piece of printer paper. I put the card saver/top loader in a team bag and painters tape it to the folded paper for a bit more rigidity. Shipping 1 card that way will weigh no more than 0.8 ounces so you can go with the least expensive standard envelope option with a single card.
Thank you - that is helpful. I'm considering buying card savers and using those instead of top loaders. The issue USPS has with toploaders is they said they are not flexible enough, despite being OK per the agreement between USPS and eBay on these. I don't think USPS trains their people very well on this. I've only ever had to send a single card so I'm sure they'd complain even more about two toploaders.
I'm going by ebay's article on the subject -labels-services/ebay-domestic-shipping-services/ebay... which states "Ship no more than 2 cards in top loaders". Call me crazy, but this implies a top loader is OK as long as it's no more than two cards. But you ship the card in just a penny sleeve? Is that typical for ESEs? Even if you're using cereal box cardboard for help, I'd be concerned about damage or negative feedback because it was not "protected enough".
As I previously stated -- I do not believe that the eBay individuals who wrote the descriptions regarding the ESE, had ANY knowledge about top loaders -- how stiffly they were constructed, or even the actual definition of a "top loader." But any card collector must realize how inflexible top loaders are constructed, and that it would be quite a miracle for even ONE top loader to bend into a curving set of rollers, making nearly 90 degree turns at high speed. (Check out the USPS films on YouTube, to watch how actual USPS First Class letters are expected to race at high speeds through the machine rollers -- and then try to imagine a non-flexible top loader making that trip!)
It was wrong of eBay to suggest that sellers use "top loaders" with the ESE. I can only imagine that the eBay individuals who wrote the ESE mailing instructions misunderstood the difference between "card sleeves" and "top loaders." Not surprising, considering the mess that eBay has made in the past with "item specifics" in the fields of trading cards, postcards, dolls, pottery, action figures, books, records and so on.
Check out the video "How USPS Sorts Mail" on the internet to see the roller systems through which a standard USPS First Class letter must travel swiftly and without interruption -- and then try to figure out how an ESE containing a top loader would make the trip.
The post office takes a lot of heat for being the problem here but you don't have to look too hard to find sellers abusing this service. I see thick jersey cards being sold all the time using this service. You can even find people selling 180 pt. thick cards like the 2022 Topps Update batting helmet cards from blasters using this service which is insane. Any piece of mail going through sorting equipment needs flex and should be under 1/4".
The only real solution to this problem is to go to a different branch and see if they they're okay, then drop your ESEs off exclusively at their branch. I love the post office, but some branches are better than others (and some are just plain bad--I overheard once a post office worker tell a customer that they could use the free USPS Priority Mail boxes to ship First Class... lol).
I am having the same issue. Going back to USPS 1st class. eBay standard envelope should be classified on eBay as buyers risk if item shows up damaged or doesn't show up seller is not responsible. Post office in my area just sat on a bunch of mine dating back to last October. I just got them all back today. There is absolutely no reason when I paid the higher rate etc. On these. Almost 300 shipments wanting more postage. Most have already been refunded weeks and months ago. eBay you need to fix this.
I work at a Postal Service processing facility in a major city. I have seen millions of letters get dumped on the conveyor belt and get processed. I only use cardsavers to ship my cards when shipping in PWE. Im too scared the toploaders will get ripped out of the envelope going through the rollers.
I have sent many toploaded cards with only one being returned to me. No explanation was given why it was returned. I simply re-sent the card and it went through. I personally never ship a card that is thicker than a standard size card using this service. I use a folded piece of card stock paper (same thickness as a greeting card) and fold it and tape the sides with the toploaded and team bagged card inside. A regular invoice folded properly works as well but it is important the the card slide through the roller system without getting hung up. Always use a good quality regular envelope and NOT the semi-rigid ones they are promoting. These are way too rigid with a toploader inside even if under a 1/4". You should be able to run your thumb and forefinger across the the envelope without feeling a big bump that can get caught in the system. These have to be flexible enough to get through the sorting machines if you want any success with this service.
Scottish architectural studio Loader Monteith has completed phase one of a mixed-use brownfield development in the Scottish Highlands. The headquarters of an international mountain bike tour operator, the development comprises a two-story office building and bike store alongside the first of two private residences. Sited on a slim, sloping 5,600-square-meter (60,278-square-feet) plot of land, the dark timber-framed buildings provide a pleasing contrast with the verdant landscape.
Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof, along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland.
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The office stands as the welcoming gateway for cyclists. The two-story H&I Adventures office is strategically positioned to the northeast of the site, enveloped in sleek burnt larch cladding, featuring a rich corten corner detail and recessed glazing, all built to capture the distant views across Beauly Firth. Inside, the office includes a workshop, two shower and changing rooms, a kitchen, and a breakout space on the ground level. The kitchen, illuminated by floor-to-ceiling sliding glazing, fosters a connection with the outdoors year-round.
The two-storey H&I Adventures office sits to the north-east of the plot boundary, wrapped in slim burnt larch cladding punctuated by a rich corten corner detail and recessed glazing designed to capture the far-reaching views across Beauly Firth.
The office features a workshop, two shower and changing rooms, and a kitchen and breakout space at ground level. The kitchen faces south, overlooking the landscaped car park and mature treeline through a frameless glazed corner. It is lit by floor-to-ceiling sliding glazing, allowing staff and visitors to enjoy level access to the outdoors year-round.
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