When I do flies, I like to make a paper or cardstock about 4 x 2 that has the recipe for the fly on it. Then I stick the point of the fly in that cardboard. Next, using big plastic bags, I use a kitchen Oster food sealer to seal the fly and cardboard in a plastic envelope. They arrive in perfect shape just stuck in any foam padded or Priority mail box and are easy to sort and send on to each of the flytiers without the hassle of twisted toe tags and stuck together hooks. You don't need anything more..not even a box. I ship all over the world and they get through customs nicely as you can see what they are without the risk of someone opening up the box and spilling the flies..and, when you ship through customs, be sure to put how many flies you are sending. That seems to prevent the customs workers from helping themselves to a sample. Just my two cents worth on what works really well for me. Joyce
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:34 AM, J Balmer <jbal...@a5.com> wrote: > I attach my flies directly to a toe tag, place that in a manila coin > envelope & then put them in a mailing envelope that has a bubble wrap liner. > > > > *From:* vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-m...@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *scott bearden > *Sent:* Monday, January 25, 2010 11:13 PM > > *To:* vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [VFB] Shipping flies > > > > I have never mailed flies out before and I am about to send out a few to a > family member in Oklahoma who wants to make a shadow box of some of my > flies. It occurred to me that I needed to protect them in transit and so I > found an old cheap fly box that I can live without. If this gets to be a > habit I don't want to buy cheap fly boxes. For those of you that mail out > dry flies routinely, what do you use that is cheap and disposable to protect > them in transit? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Scott Bearden > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
