sudsnwicks Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 For those of you who mail your jar candles by post, do you answer yes when they ask if there's anything fragile inside the box? The reason I ask is because I've never answered yes, and never had any problems with breakage in the past, but just recently I had one box containing 3 jars where one of them arrived broken. So I'm wondering if it might help if I declared the package as fragile? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celicagtca Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 For those of you who mail your jar candles by post, do you answer yes when they ask if there's anything fragile inside the box? The reason I ask is because I've never answered yes, and never had any problems with breakage in the past, but just recently I had one box containing 3 jars where one of them arrived broken. So I'm wondering if it might help if I declared the package as fragile?Based on experience and having friends in UPS, Canpar and Canada Post, they told me never to label the pkgs. "Fragile". When the warehouse staff (only a few) spots that word, 9 times out of 10, your pkgs. are going to be kicked around like a football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crafty1_AJ Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Yes, I generally try to remember to have the jar candle boxes stamped "Fragile." I do wrap the jar candles in a sheet of bubble wrap and package them so that there are peanuts all around them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sudsnwicks Posted July 1, 2007 Author Share Posted July 1, 2007 Thanks for your opinions, celicagtca and AJ! Oh, decisions... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenOH Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 I have always marked my boxes fragile. I also double box, always ship priority and only ship on Monday or Tuesdays. For 3 yrs I shipped to Germany every 3 months and have customers in Georgia and Florida who I ship to on a regular basis. So far no broken jars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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