DitmasPork
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One of the more indestructible knife shipments I received was in a PVC tube.
Shipping knife from Los Angeles to New York - USPS Priority, Fedex or UPS Ground?
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josemartinlopez
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Yes, but is using these (and the added volume / larger box) better than a layer of bubble wrap or styrofoam padding, which is thinner?
juice
Doesn't even buy knives
Yes, an excellently-engineered setup, and well-proven after this many stops on the passaround.
The more padding and crush room, the better. The peanuts are nice because they have some empty space for crushing, while still providing protective padding.
If you want to go overboard, expanding foam would be ideal.
For simplicity and not using the peanuts, styrofoam wrapped knife box and then wrap that in bubble wrap. And that inside the shipping box.
josemartinlopez
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Yes, but as you said, the more crush room, the better if the bigger box and peanuts is feasible.
Idk, I’ve only gotten a couple of knives that were packaged badly. One of them was fine, the saya of the other was dented. But these were awful packing jobs, like the saya and knife box just placed in the big box with no padding or packing at all. Kinda think you should just pack it with some reasonably squishy stuff so nothing moved around in the package, and be done with it. I guess if you have super high value items it’s good to be extra careful though, and the price for extra big box will be negligible in comparison.
battlecry501
Active Member
This is like the "dropping an egg from the roof in a padded container" project from school. All we're missing here is a parachute 
josemartinlopez
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I was the kid who obsessed over the egg.
I was the kid that wanted to cook and eat the egg
FYI. Bernal shipped a small knife to me on Tuesday and it has arrived today. 2 days from California to Connecticut. Just USPS First Class. Not even Priority.
USPS - Cheapest, but as people have said, possibly a crapshoot in current climate. One good way to mitigate is to do your transaction over PayPal Goods & Services, make sure that the knife is shipped to the address linked to the buyer's verified PayPal account, and then enter the tracking information in PayPal after. This is supposed to make you eligible for PayPal seller protection. Or at least that was the protocol last time I checked. I think in theory this means that PayPal will cover the cost if something goes wrong with the shipment.
FedEx - Fast, reliable, responsive. And, of course, more expensive. If I ship a knife through FedEx I usually add a declared value to get shipping insurance. If it's a $300 knife and you're shipping across the US, then shipping usually comes to about $25 - $30-ish. Maybe a little more, depending. If you don't add declared value to the shipment, and chose to rely solely on PayPal seller protection instead, then it is a bit cheaper. Me, I like to load up protection both through PayPal and through FedEx just to cover my bases. Yes, it costs a bit more. But it's worth it to me not to have a BST transaction go awry. In the long run, nothing is more important on BST than your credibility as a seller. If you lose that, you might as well give up. So it's worth an extra $5 - $10 for me in a transaction.
UPS - No experience, sorry. But I imagine it's very similar to FedEx in a lot of ways.
FedEx - Fast, reliable, responsive. And, of course, more expensive. If I ship a knife through FedEx I usually add a declared value to get shipping insurance. If it's a $300 knife and you're shipping across the US, then shipping usually comes to about $25 - $30-ish. Maybe a little more, depending. If you don't add declared value to the shipment, and chose to rely solely on PayPal seller protection instead, then it is a bit cheaper. Me, I like to load up protection both through PayPal and through FedEx just to cover my bases. Yes, it costs a bit more. But it's worth it to me not to have a BST transaction go awry. In the long run, nothing is more important on BST than your credibility as a seller. If you lose that, you might as well give up. So it's worth an extra $5 - $10 for me in a transaction.
UPS - No experience, sorry. But I imagine it's very similar to FedEx in a lot of ways.
blunt_cutter
Active Member
Nobody asked about tape, do you prefer clear packing tape, opaque packing tape, duct tape, scotch tape, the tape with the strings in it? All the peanuts and foam in the world won't matter if the outside box doesn't stay closed.
