@pburn wrote:
@jewelbiz wrote:
Since there are new chats on pets, I don’t see any reason why I can’t ask where or what to buy to send out my records after I sell them here on eBay.
Of course you can ask those questions, whether "there are new chats on pets" or not. Where did you get the idea you couldn't ask about shipping materials? I don't get the correlation.
Well, technically, I'd say there's a strong possibility that this entire thread will get shoveled off to the Shipping and Returns group, but whatever. 😊
There are cardboard LP mailers available from various sellers here on eBay. Back when the spouse and I had a whole bunch of jazz records to sell, we bought 50 cardboard mailers here and they worked out very well: just drop the album in the center, fold over all four flaps and you're done. Two of the flaps end up with their corrugations at right-angles to the rest of the package, so you get very good rigidity and resistance to bending. We also ran a bead of white Elmer's Glue under the last flap before taping all seams.
One other detail: we used a 12" square of small-cell bubble wrap for padding inside. Rotate the square of bubble wrap 45° so that its corners are at 12:00, 3:00, 6:00 and 9:00. Lay the album right-side-up in the middle, then fold the projecting corners of the bubble wrap up and over each side of the album towards the middle. Place that into the mailer and seal it up. This way, the bubble wrap cushions each edge to keep the album floating, centered within the mailer, and the corners are kept free, not mashed into padding.
We had a number of albums go all the way to Japan (turns out that there's a huge jazz market over there) and all shipments arrived in good shape.
