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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: Tonnystark on January 03, 2019, 11:36:08 AM

Title: What is the best way to ship a large amount of comics?
Post by: Tonnystark on January 03, 2019, 11:36:08 AM

As the title says, I am about to ship (from Oregon to Iowa). I'm sending these as a gift to my dad. I obviously want them to arrive safe but don't want to spend an arm and a leg. They're mostly just comic books from this past year, no real collector's items.

Is there are preferred approach to preparing these boxes/books? (eg. stuffing their extra space)

I'm guessing I should put the boxes in another box for shipping. Should I place these boxes in separate boxes, or is it better to try and ship them together in a single box?

Any companies/services you could recommend for the journey?

Title: Re: What is the best way to ship a large amount of comics?
Post by: Yoc on January 03, 2019, 01:08:25 PM

Hi TS,
While the JVJ Project was running they were using USPS flat rate boxes.  You can see them in the second picture of this topic:
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,7120.0.html

I was not part of the scanning side of the project so I can't tell you what kind of packing they used but we did manage to send and scan several thousand comics for DCM this way.

Good luck,
-Yoc