posted on February 10, 2002 06:47:16 PM
I need to mail some old comics sheets from 1922 newspapers. How would you package these so they don't get damaged in transit? Would you attempt to roll them in a mailing tube? Or would you send them flat (they're already folded in half and are the old, large size of funnies before newspapers started cutting back on paper size).
If flat, exactly, how would you cushion/protect them?
posted on February 10, 2002 06:50:44 PM
I would absolutely not roll them. I would pack them flat between pieces of cardboard with a lot of "air" around the edges. And then some more cardboard to prevent dents. Of course, that depends also on total won and how item was described.
posted on February 10, 2002 06:52:49 PM
I'd wrap them in tissue, them put them on a cardboard sheet an inch or so larger, then bubblewrap, then pack them between even bigger sheets of cardboard. Then I'd double-tape all the edges and send them on their way. That would be for media mail.
For priority, I'd do the first cardboard wrap/bubblewrap business then slip them into one of the large shirt-box shape priority mailers. Don't pop open the mailer - just use it flat.
