Suggestions on Shipping 11x17 prints 0

[ExNihilo]

On ‎8‎/‎3‎/‎2018 at 7:09 AM, www.alexgross.com said:

selling and shipping prints is a significant part of how i make a living. my advice is DO NOT SHIP FLAT. any time i have done it i have regretted it. usps or ups will bend the #(%$* out of your packages. i use heavy duty mailing tubes and even then, about three per cent get smashed. insure your packages, whichever service you use. 

I received prints lately and was expecting them to arrive in a tube.  They instead arrived rolled in a long rectangular box (think 3" x 3" x ~24").  While I imagine tubes are usually good enough, if OP is seriously concerned about safety, they could always get a tube and then place it in whatever long rectangular box I was given.  Effectively adding an additional layer of protection.  How much sturdier that makes it, I'm not entirely sure, but just a suggestion.

[fastballspecial]

Just reviving this topic to see if anyone has come across any new ideas. I have a stack of prints I plan to sell this summer.

 

[kav]

If you dont want to roll, use chip board.  all the stuff I've purchased from splash page art came in chipboard.

[GeneticNinja]

I stick to my post from the first page. Unless it is drawn artwork or a print on really heavy paper. Use the Yazoo Mills thick tube. Don't roll too tight or be heavy handed and you'll be ok.

[slym2none]

Anytime I've ever shipped something like that, I always ship flat, using unfolded USPS boxes, and I write on both sides in large letters "DO NOT BEND, FOLD, SPINDLE, OR MUTILATE".

So far, no problems.

 



-slym