A Shipping tube

anon38216271 · June 29, 2006, 4:15pm

I need to ship something a poster sized tube. The post office doesn’t care it. The 9X9 store doesn’t. So in what part of Taipei has 15 stores that will provide me with a tube.

Thanks

Dragonbones · June 30, 2006, 7:37am

I’ve seen them in ordinary 文具店 wen2ju4dian4 (stationery stores).

anon38216271 · June 30, 2006, 8:06am

Thanks dragonbones. What’s the chinese for shipping tube?

Dragonbones · June 30, 2006, 8:16am

hai3bao4tong3 ‘poster tube’ should do the trick; or ji4 hao3bao4 de gun3tong2 ‘a tube for mailing posters’

nivek · June 30, 2006, 8:39am

Ha… whilst roaming around China last week was looking for the same item, couldn’t find anything so stopped in one of the hundreds of stores/plumbers and got a piece of PVC tubing, weight was not a lot more than a cardboard tube and much sturdier.

Maybe another solution