[NJARC] Mailing LPs

[Aaron Hunter]

Rob

 I had luck shipping several 78s at a time by putting newspaper between 
each one, cardboard on the outside and tape the mess together.  Then put 
in a box with 2 inches of clearance on all sides with solid styrofoam on 
the ends and peanuts packed tight on the sides.  What you label the box 
does not matter.  If you can safely throw this out the 2nd floor window 
onto the asphalt driveway, then it will probably survive shipping, 
unless it is run over.  Shipping one 78 by its self will probably not 
survive unless you have lots of cardboard around it.  Better yet is to 
add a trashed record on each side.  Do not ship in the album some record 
sets came in or were stored in.

I had a LP shipped to me that someone decided to bend in half.  You can 
imagine how it looked when I received it.  You have to box these to keep 
someone from bending it.  Since they are more flexible,  they don't have 
to be packed as rigidly as the 78s. 

Where I used to work, we had to ship delicate instruments on pallets so 
some fool wouldn't throw or drop it.  That still didn't stop a forklift 
fork from going through the box!

Aaron


VICTOR BELLINI wrote:
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> Based on my many years of experience as an eBay seller or just about 
> everything under the sun (including records), I would say that the 
> newer LPs should do fine sandwiched between cardboard especially if 
> they are in the jacket. If not place them in a sleeve or between two 
> pieces of paper to prevent scratching and of course write fragile on 
> it (and see if the post office reads it....ha)....forget about the 
> older records...78s etc...they are more brittle and my experience is a 
> 98% loss regardless of packing.....you could try extreme packing with 
> these but don't be surprise if they end up in a hundred pieces.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Flory" 
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> Subject: [NJARC] Mailing LPs
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>> Does anyone have experience mailing LPs and/or 78s?  Is a sandwich
>> between heavy cardboard good enough?
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>> Rob
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