Best way to ship Christmas ornaments

[faithandbutterflies]

Hey, I have a whole lot of Christmas ornaments that I'd love to put up for sale but I'm not exactly sure how I would go about shipping them. I usually ship things media mail in poly envelopes since I mainly sell books, tapes and other media things. I always use free shipping since I know buyers like that. I don't have boxes or bubble wrap on hand at the moment. 

I was thinking of getting free small priority mail boxes from USPS & doing it that way. I'd have the buyers pay for shipping of course. I'd carefully wrap the item up in bubble wrap which I can buy today. Would this be the best way to go about it? I also see they have small shoe box size boxes too. That may be good for ornaments. Thanks in advance. 

[missjen831]

You can ship ornaments first class mail for less than the cost of priority mail. The "shoe box" priority box is way too big unless its a large order, that box is big enough to hold an actual shoe box inside, its not a small box at 14" long. A small flate rate box would only work for flatter ornaments, its only 1 5/8". Box 4 would probably be best but unless its a heavy ornament, priority mail would be more than FCM.

[faithandbutterflies]

thank you. Any place where I can get shipping boxes at an affordable price for ornaments? 

[the_fancy_fox]

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@faithandbutterflies wrote:

thank you. Any place where I can get shipping boxes at an affordable price for ornaments? 

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Here on ebay but I suggest before you go ahead, look up the prices they haver sold for. Most are not worth much unless you have rare old glass. For those, double boxing.

[faithandbutterflies]

Thanks. For sure I plan to look possible value before listing and buying shipping supplies. I've sold on here for many years. If I can make even a little one these ornaments that would be great. Every bit helps. Thanks for your time.