posted on October 13, 2000 03:47:20 AM new
I need to ship a 24 volume set of heavy encyclopedias from California to Connecticut. Any advice? Type of boxes? How many per box? Go USPS or UPS? Thanks in advance!
[ edited by belalug3 on Oct 13, 2000 03:48 AM ]
posted on October 13, 2000 03:53:35 AM new
Heavy corrugated boxes, wrap in plastic, pad well with peanuts or bubble, insure and send bookrate with USPS. I'd send this in two boxes. Delivery confirmation is worthwhile as well.
posted on October 13, 2000 04:18:59 AM new
Put EACH one in a plastic bag (kitchen trash bags work well) and tape it shut.
With heavy books you HAVE to immobilize the pages and covers or the covers break free in shipping. I use a roll of corrugated single-face (bubblewrap also works) taped to the bag between the free ends of the covers, with a full wrap of tape at the top and bottom. It keeps the pages from sliding if the book is hit from the spine side.
Then overwrap each with single-face corrugated or bubblewrap ... yuo have to protect them from each other.
Find STURDY boxes, seal the seams with packing tape, and pack the books in SOLIDLY. If there is space left over, fill it with a small sturdy box, a big wad of bubblewrapn or a chunk of foam. Loose peanuts do not stand a change of holding an encyclopedia in place, but you can put them in a bag and use the whole bag.
Book-rate goes up to 70 lbs, but it's better to have smaller boxes in the 25-30 lb range, it's easier to handle, and not much more expensive. Nothing larger than those cardboard temporary file boxes or you'll herniate while schlepping them to the USPS.
Use an INSIDE Address in each box and ONE of X, TWO of X ... on the outside so the recipient can tell if they got all the boxes.
posted on October 13, 2000 07:57:42 AM new
...or try wrapping with tissue, a pretty seal holding the tissue closed, AND a satin ribbon tied around the book with a thank-you card slipped under it....
posted on October 13, 2000 08:53:02 AM new
You'll probably have to do 2 shipments---
but you should 'double box' them if they are heavy. Pack them securely into one box using any of the methods above except for the satin ribbon one---and then put that box inside a sightly bigger box and then pad the sides, top and bottom between the two boxes with whatever material you use.
[ edited by Zazzie on Oct 13, 2000 08:58 AM ]
posted on October 13, 2000 09:10:36 AM new
Bill---you have to be a Diva to do an effective 'Harumph'---otherwise it just sounds like you have a frog in your throat.
