[Mccoypottery-talk] shipping charges

[acp]

Thanks for the tip about the egg cartons.  I've been throwing them
away, because they are not "recyclable".  Now, I have something
I can do with them!!  :-)

 I send a lot of things to relatives and friends and it usually costs me
less than most people.  I have usually have a lot of small boxes saved,
in my garage.  ;-)     I'm always getting packing material from people
and I always use the cheapest method to mail things.

Now, if I had a business where I shipped glassware, regularly,
I think it might be a good idea to take a few pieces down to
the Mailboxes, Etc. and see how much they charge to pack
AND ship it and use that amount.  Then, I'd just let them do
it for me.   Maybe that is what those sellers who have exorbitant
shipping costs do???
acp
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Betty Nelson wrote:

>The shipping charges are outrageous!!  However how long has it been since you packed and shipped anything.  I about dropped my teeth when a present I sent my sis came to $15.00 just to make sure it was packed well enough to go on a 600 mile trip.  By the way, I seldom get any thing I ship broken, and when I am listing on Ebay I have shipped a bunch. I found out several years ago that one of the BEST, totally free if you get your friends to save them for you, packing aid is an egg carton.  The side where the eggs are packed especially withstands more psi than any of your little balloons of air or most of your 'peanuts' will squash flat before an egg carton will budge an inch.  I have shipped many items packed in a light weight box like a cereal
>box and packed in a larger box with the cereal box sitting on an egg carton and one on each end and one on top.  Weighs almost nothing and I have never had a thing get broken if I used my egg cartons.  Not even in shipping to my son in Europe.
>Betty in Iowa
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