This year, it might be wise to have the sellers hold onto such records
until Spring; the insides of delivery trucks are propably going to freeze
no matter is written on the packages. February is going to be the coldest
month in Buffalo's recorded history.
----- Original Message -----
From: Antique Phonograph List
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 4:58 PM
Subject: [Phono-L] Shipping Blue Amberols from cold locations...
This is a new one on me. I have seen many Blue Amberol Records with
longitudinal splits and thought it was just age shrinking the celluloid over
the plaster core. I won an eBay auction with 10 Blue Amberols in good
shape. When they arrived, two were cleanly split over the perfectly intact
plaster core. Sitting out here in California with people driving their
convertibles with tops down and me in short sleeves I had given no thought
to getting records from Wisconsin in February. If I win more from the same
seller I have requested that he print "DO NOT FREEZE" on the package.
Am I the only one this has happened to? Will the printing of 'do not
freeze' help the USPS from repeating the problem. As a phonograph collector
I must admit to my ignorance on temperatures affecting records.
May all your finds be rare ones,
Al Sefl
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