unknown pleasures

I’d never seen this before this month, but I’ve noticed it a few times all of a sudden.
 
From what I could gather, it means the parcel needed to be pulled from the regular delivery process and processed by hand by an employee for whatever reason - there are many things that could cause this.
 
I don’t think it means there’s a serious problem or it won’t be delivered, even though the wording is a little alarming. 

I stand corrected!
 
Those do look like some pretty heavy stock inners from what I can tell in the photos. I think labels have at least gotten better than that, I know records from the 80s/90s/00s had some really thin inners, sometimes no thicker than a regular sheet of printer paper.

Merry Christmas @unknown pleasures!
*Two*180 gm with printed inners - no seam splits - nor the outer jacket either. Caspian, On Circles and Ringo Deathstarr: ST  (see below)
The 2 other 180 gm had generic inner sleeves.  Previous years, I checked about a dozen including some 200 gm represses from Steven Wilson, and no generic inners were split, but the regular stock and thin glossy paper inner sleeves,  most had some splits (some more than others) -- no matter the weight of record.  I remember trying to find copies of ITTCT: Red Forest on Science of Silence in 2012 without inner sleeve splits, and I went through a lot of copies to cull out the 10%. They were not 180 gm, were shipped sealed to SoS, who then openend them and shipped outside the jacket. There were a significant number of outer jacket seam splits, too. That was the turning point for me about either imploding or accepting this is part of vinyl collecting. That being said, I'll do everything possible to ship a record without issues to remain that way upon reaching its destination.
I remember one label was so paranoid from frequent returns, they shipped the vinyl bare naked to slip and slide all around, so the jacket and inners remained as they received them from the plant. Can't remember which album or label it was but I almost $hit my pants opening up that mailer.

 

I refuse to believe a 180 gram record without a split inner sleeve exists.
 
Never seen one. Never will.

It’s a pretty sad indication of character when the only time you’re ever mentioned anywhere is in a negative light...

I’m hoping for a huge twist where the trash cans are full of Victory test pressings and trunk is full of jars of cat piss.

I’m hoping for a huge twist where the trash cans are full of Victory test pressings and trunk is full of jars of cat piss.

Looks like it’s available online again...

Love this song and really want this 7" but it's $15 with $7 shipping... Pass for now.

It’s incredible what a “1 per household” policy does to keep these up a little longer and give more people a chance without resorting to flippers.

I only come here for the ads.

I dunno, maybe this is an original "90s" Sub Pop sticker... but even if it is, $188 is a lot of bones for something that's basically identical to something they still throw in for free with pretty much any online order to this day:
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/90s-SUB-POP-sticker/383700365255

I dunno, maybe this is an original "90s" Sub Pop sticker... but even if it is, $188 is a lot of bones for something that's basically identical to something they still throw in for free with pretty much any online order to this day:
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/90s-SUB-POP-sticker/383700365255

I dunno, maybe this is an original "90s" Sub Pop sticker... but even if it is, $188 is a lot of bones for something that's basically identical to something they still throw in for free with pretty much any online order to this day:
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/90s-SUB-POP-sticker/383700365255

I only come here for the ads.

I only come here for the ads.

He’d be lucky if he got any Journey vinyl in this lot...

He’d be lucky if he got any Journey vinyl in this lot...