Proper way to ship a lens when you don't have original package?

9 years 8 months ago #396925 by Jim Steyvoort
I just bought a lens from someone and I just got an email: "Thank you for your interest and purchase, I would like to ship this off to you tomorrow, however as my ad mentioned I don't have the original box for this lens and not sure how to properly ship a lens.  Can you give me some ideas?"

My first thought is to get one of those $5.95 ship anything boxes from the post office and bubble wrap the heck out of the lens, and then insure it.  Does that sit well with most of you? 


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9 years 8 months ago #396953 by cod
I've done that several times in the past.  Bubble wrap the lens, in a post office shipping box with styrofoam or crumpled newspaper padding to fill the spaces.  Works well.

Chris O'Donoghue
Winnipeg, Canada
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9 years 8 months ago #396993 by Joves

cod wrote: I've done that several times in the past.  Bubble wrap the lens, in a post office shipping box with styrofoam or crumpled newspaper padding to fill the spaces.  Works well.

:agree:
I agree it is pretty straight forward. You can use any box for that fact.


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9 years 8 months ago #397036 by Ben Vanderbilt
Don't forget to take some snap shots of how you have it packed up


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9 years 8 months ago #397062 by garyrhook
The trick with anything fragile is to prevent it from moving within the container, coupled with reasonable padding all the way around. That's why bubble wrap rocks. Peanuts are okay if they're packed in solidly.


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9 years 8 months ago #397069 by Alex

Joves wrote:

cod wrote: I've done that several times in the past.  Bubble wrap the lens, in a post office shipping box with styrofoam or crumpled newspaper padding to fill the spaces.  Works well.

:agree:
I agree it is pretty straight forward. You can use any box for that fact.


+1  and don't forget to insure with signature required

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9 years 8 months ago #397100 by Chris Curran
I always take photos of what I'm shipping, you just never know


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