Shipping entire perfume collection to new house, help!

Thank you Belle de Sud! They all fit pretty well in one box. maybe I should unpack and repack into two, just to make sure that if one box gets knocked around, at least half of my collection will survive.

I was going to mark it as china, but it SOUNDS like there are liquids inside, when I shake it. How do I explain that? Do you think I can get away with saying a lot of it is unguents, like shampoo??

The U.S. Post Office have boxes "When it Fits, it Ships". I used them when I relocated from Florida to New York, and carefully shipped my perfumes ahead of time.

Use masking tape and seal the top of the bottle tightly. Use a bubble wrap and wrap the bottle with it, and seal this tightly with masking tape. Now you have the bottles sealed.

I got suitable size cartons and used my sweaters, towels and soft clothing to cushion the whole thing inside the carton, the tighter the better, never mind that the clothes get creases, you can iron that.

That way the bottles do not shake.

I never told the post office, no contents were declared, just an address label to my new location, I mean sender = me and recipient = me.

WHEN IT FITS - IT SHIPS. Bulk rate. You can get the cartons for free, and play with them, folding up different sizes, then pack them up, and line them up at the wall, and drive all them to the post office at once.

Last edited by Udaria (2012-05-23 15:23:22)

My bottles aren't shaking, they fit pretty snug, but many of them are half-full. So when you lift the box, you can hear the fluid contents shifting inside the bottles. SIGH. It's so distinctly fluid, if anyone moves it at all, they'll hear.

It's a great idea to use those ship it fits boxes though! I didn't even think of that.

If/when I move I know I'll be driving my car to the new place with my pets even though my belongings will be shipped via moving company so I would plan on packing all of my fragrances in boxes that will no doubt fill my car.  I wouldn't consider shipping them via any shipping company.

Weegee, I thought you would rent a moving truck!?

I would so split up your collection into more than one box! just imagine if it got lost or met with an accident.

good luck with your move!

Silly as it sounds.. I remember once in a swap I got some half full bottles... and the person sending them to me put broken spagetti and rice to make noise, in between the bubble wraps and the bottles.... Now remember it was coming from Europe, and I am in Canada... where they are very yucky with these things. It worked!

Happyme is right - I have had good luck adding breakfast cereal to sloshy sounding packages more than once.

P.S.  Best wishes in your new home, latelittlesleeper!