I have the bubble wrap & everything else to wrap up the watch pretty good but what kind of boxes do you guys use to ship watches? I mean, I can buy one at the post office but they are expensive. I use to have smaller plain tan boxes but im out, can you get them at wal-mart?
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What Kind Of Box Do You Guys Use For Shipping Watches?
- Thread starter SecretAgentMan
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Yeah, thats what my cousin told me as well..........I guess I will wait until I go in there tomorrow.
This.......
Really a good deal in shipping (especially w/free delivery confirmation if you use usps.com).
Buy the padded/bubble wrap envelopes with sticky flaps - 12 for 7 bucks. Put the watch in that and then into the free usps small flat rate box. Easiest, no tape, no mess way to package and ship safely.
Call by your local shoe shop. Boxes for children's shoes. Ideal, about 7x5x4 inches and sturdy.
Most stores are happy to give them away.
Most stores are happy to give them away.
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Here´s a good thread on this from shanno..
http://forum.replica-watch.info/vb/...-ship-66575?t=66575&highlight=shipping+safely
http://forum.replica-watch.info/vb/...-ship-66575?t=66575&highlight=shipping+safely
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I also recycle the boxes from the dealers. Normally they have a polystyrene box within the cardboard box which gives even greater protection to the watch.
This is what I do; gotta get rid of them somehow. I swear they're bulletproof with all the tape on them, and I bet they'd dull my knife if I tried to cut through it all.
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I will take a sheet of bubble wrap and run in inside the bracelet to put a layer between the case-back and the bracelet or clasp, then wrap it a few times. I tape it closed and put it in a flat-rate box with some foam peanuts I have at the office. (Someone shipped me something in them so I am reusing, in case there are environmental types out there hating me for using peanuts.)
ShiroTenshi
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Yeah, ive used the foamy peanuts that I have gotten from other things to ship stuff sold on ebay & what not. Im not a pack rat, if I was, I would have a ton of small boxes which I wish I had now but I will use the priority boxes at the post office.
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I usually bubble wrap the watch until I have a "ball" the size of a fist. Then I put that in some kind of styrofoam box or, in rare cases, an envelope and more paper around it (with a good amount of tape on the outside).
All that stuff comes to the post office, where I buy a box roughly the size of a shoe box. The base and sides of the box get filled with bubble wrap and other soft paper stuff, then the styrofoam box goes in. After filling up the left space with bubble wrap I close the box and use thick tape on all possible holes.
Never had an issue with damaged stuff, only one package lost on it's way to Doha
All that stuff comes to the post office, where I buy a box roughly the size of a shoe box. The base and sides of the box get filled with bubble wrap and other soft paper stuff, then the styrofoam box goes in. After filling up the left space with bubble wrap I close the box and use thick tape on all possible holes.
Never had an issue with damaged stuff, only one package lost on it's way to Doha
ALL of the above; and as TB states: reuse, reuse, recycle, recycle. I use the free USPS small falt Priority Mail boxes & place the bubblewrapped watch inside; then I tape it down so it doesn't bounce around inside; from others, I've also use folded pieces of newsprint or small cardboard around the watch. If that fails: packing peanuts!! The more, the merrier... .
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