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Packaging for mail parcel
I'm sending a paperback book overseas by sea/surface mail, so I know it'll possibly get wet or be subjected to rough handling during its travels. What household materials could I use for packaging to make it a secure and safe parcel?
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If you buy a padded envelope from the post office and put the book inside it should be fine. It won't get wet using a padded envelope or damaged. Their padded envelopes have bubble wrap in them that surrounds the book.
What I like to do is use their padded envelope with the bubble wrap and put an additional layer of buddble wrap around the book with elastics or taped around it. That always works well. What you ought to do is use the express rates 2-4 days for your package that gives you a tracking number.
The tracking number not only tells you were your parcel is at all times during shipping but ensures that if it gets damaged (which it won't) or lost that they owe you money.
Your best option is a costly one but well worth considering doing. You can send it by FedEx or UPS to the recipient in a special box or envelope designed so your package is secure. That can cost tons though unless the recipient is in the same U.S. state or if another state that borders you.
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zip-lock baggie(possibly two) with a towel or something around it then in a box with a kind of plastic ish outside....like a shoebox from converse...but not from nike because they dont put the covering on it then put a bunch of packing peanuts in it and your book should be safe
good luck
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