I ordered two sets of these dishes in red and blue. Oddly enough when I unpacked the red pkg I found a badly cracked dinner plate around the edge--following the circular edge all the way to the edge of the raised area around the plate. I have no idea if this was a quality control problem or shipping (the box was undamaged). It was odd because it was the most inner dinner plate, not on the outside as I would have expected.  The textured layer of the dish was very thin, although I have read other reviews saying it doesn't show utensil marks. The dishes in general were thinner than I expected. The dish sizes and colors were great. I chose to return both boxes though not wanting to risk any other breaks from being dropped, etc. Hopefully this was fluke and not a general pattern for these melanmine dishes.