[Clayart] Soft pots and mailing... Rox

[M Gordon]

I agree with Terry, I have used UPS a lot & even when I got the address  
wrong it still got there just fine! Mike Gordon
On May 9, 2018, at 7:08 PM, Terry Lazaroff wrote:

> Hello Rox;
>
> If you do not have practice mailing ceramic, and you have a large  
> expensive order, take it to UPS, and have them package the items, and  
> deliver them.  It is more expensive than the post, but you will have a  
> guarantee that they will get there in one piece.
>
> Terry
>
> Getting my garden ready to plant.
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> From: Roxanne Hunnicutt
> Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 9:35 PM
> To: clayart at lists.clayartworld.com
> Subject: [Clayart] Soft pots and mailing... Rox
>
> Ok, I need help and if I am missing some help in the archives, just  
> let me
> know.
>
> Willing to get help anywhere.
>
> I never mail pots.  When I did a few times, I did very poorly. Broken  
> pots.
>
>
> I make smoke fired platters about 15”.  A customer at a sale couldn’t  
> take
> any because she was traveling. So I agree to send three.  And could you
> help with me know how to package the first?
>
> What packing materials?  Spray foam?
>
> Even double boxed I can’t imagine that as soft as my platters are  
> (cone ten
> clays fired at cone 05, who or soldate 60) they’d arrive intact.
>
> Anyone like one service more than another? Does any of our clay
> organizations, potters council or another, have a discount that makes  
> sense
> for this?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
> I’m open to any suggestions.  I might even give up and take them to  
> her! I
> love where she lives, Seattle.
>
> Rox
> -- Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world  
> unbearable. -G.
> B.Shaw
>
> My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your
> disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things  
> it
> interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically. S.
> Hawking
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