Shipping a quilt
#1
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Was wondering if any of you have shipped a quilt? Am sending a gift of a full size bed quilt to a friend down in Tennessee. Was thinking I would buy one of those "vacumn" bags at the store, then use the vac and suck all the extra air out once I put the quilt in it, and then boxing it up, and taking it to the post office. Would this work? I realize the quilt will be wrinkled but it will straighten out after she unpacks it. Any suggestions? Thanks.
#2
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Long Island, New York
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I shipped two quilts last year, MA and VA. I put each quilt inside a large plastic bag and took them to UPS. They boxed them, I filled out the labels and off they went. Both arrived in perfect condition. I did insure them.
#3
I have mailed quilts in the States and to Australia. I sometimes used the vacuum bags. I think they worked really well. You can squish a double size quilt into a large flat rate box. They fluffed up real nice, when taken out.
#4
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Illinois
Posts: 9,312
I send my quilts out for Long Arming , and use a sturdy Box , I have used the XXXL zip lock bags they have in the grocery store.. or just line the box with a nice heavy plastic bag and twist tie it. I save my liitle bags of mosture control stuff you find in shoe boxes and in summer weather put those in the bag wrapped in acid free tissue. ( my friends collect those moisture things for me)
#5
I shipped one this past winter. I used a space bag (the bag you suck the air out of) to make it more condensed then packed it and shipped it UPS. I didn't say it was a quilt, I said it was blankets. Someone told me you should never say it's a quilt. Yes, I did insure it.
#7
rach at the post office helps me pack my quilts I put them in a tall kitchen bag that smells nice and add fabric softner sheets into the quilt folds, oh how they smell so fresh lol, I would think that size would go into the meidum or large boxes flat rate quite easily, add insurance and tracking they say insurance you can track but i have not had much luck with it so I add tracking, and there off I have never had any issues with my quilts showing up. and never a complaint about any box buldge. but each po is different I think the ups in the malls and such are higher than going directly to a ups distribution shop.
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