Hi Joyce, with respect, shipping out of the US may be easy, shipping into the US is another kettle of fish!
cheers Paul On Jan 26, 5:25 pm, Joyce Westphal <westpha...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 athttp://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 athttp://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
