[Clayart] Soft pots and mailing... Rox

[Paul Gerhold]

Go to a UPS customer center and they will tell you the packaging requirements for insured shipping. Back when I shipped a lot it was pot, three inches of protection bubble wrap or other, cardboard box, another three inches and then an outside cardboard box. Never had a single piece broken and after having had multiple packages opened and checked by UPS they stopped checking my packaging. 

And if you ship a lot I strongly recommend medium bubble size bought in big rolls. And charge the customer for packaging material and shipping cost. I never got brave enough to charge for my packing time though.

Paul  


Paul

> On May 9, 2018, at 8:43 PM, Roxanne Hunnicutt <roxhun at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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