@CALNNC posted:You haven't lived until you get a plastic bag from the USPS full of a mangled, gear tooth embossed, greasy package inside with a 'Sorry, Technical difficulty' note attached.
I guess I've lived, then. Back in the day when I was shooting 8mm home movies, I'd sent a roll (they were 50' rolls) to a Kodak plant in California for development. About a week and a half later, I got a #10 white envelope in the mail. Inside was what appeared to be a small plastic sandwich bag with the bare roll of film inside, and a small note with a single line saying something like "difficulties enroute." What happened to the yellow Kodak box it would have shipped in, who knows? When I removed the roll of film, it was soaked in what appeared to be motor oil. It was more than weird.
Luckily, after I cleaned the film, foot by foot, with gentle dish detergent and water, the developed film was fine.
