Thread: How to ship a razor for honing

My apologizes. Keep thinking USA but I hope other country's have similar shipping methods. cardboard boxes small enough to ship economically but sturdy enough to protect. one would just have to go to there local post office and enquire.

Originally Posted by JosephHoffer

This razor is a family heirloom so I have to make 100% sure it makes it ok.

Well if you want 100% guarantee on it's safety & a great shave ready edge, then you have to go with "Option A".

Option A:
You purchase "2" round trip tickets from Miami to Ontario(always wanted to see Canada & my son will carry my hones).
We fly in, anytime day or night, hone on the spot,,,shave test it before we leave,,,, give you a little mini course on honing,,,and a certificate for 50% off on the next trip(certificate does not count toward airfare.)

With Option A, you never have to worry about your heirloom getting lost, damaged or returned with a less than perfect BBS producing edge.

Don't worry too much and pack it so you don't have to worry if it is going to get some damage by post office. I advice to pack razors sent to me in hard case like those what comes with new razor. Then it is good to send in bubblewrap stuffed envelope. If you want to be really sure then put it in hard post package.

I even once got razor from customer who had just put it in regular envelope and sent to me.

Someone once sent me a razor inside a little cardboard triangle, like a tube but it was just folded piece of cardboard, in my opinion this is an easy way to protect a razor.

Hints:

A Box is good

No tape or rubber bands directly around the razor, put something around the razor (bubble wrap, Paper) then put the tape or rubber band around the outside wrapping,

Basically just overdo it on the packing, you cant look back and say "dang, I overpacked that" but you can look back and say "dang, the post office crushed the snot out of my beautiful blade"

Using the advice here, I just packed up a razor for re-honing today. Using bubble wrap and packing it into a flat rate postal box, I'm confident that it will get there with no problem and zero damage.

Thanks to all who contribute to the forum to help others out.

Frank

Had a couple razors coming to me and they were tran-shipped at Chicago. Two were cut out of the end of the envelope and the hole remained at delivery...not insured.
I use a toothbrush travel tube and cotton on the ends and a few wraps of paper towel around the razor inside. Then it is taped inside the flat rate box and the box filled with peanuts or better yet used plastic shopping bags twisted up. The box is sealed with packaging tape and again wrapped with fiberglass filament tape to assure noting escapes. The label is glued no and that is held in place by two warps of 1.5 inch clear packaging tape around the whole box.

I use USPS because the flat rate also makes my mini business shipping of lots of small machined parts a cinch!
Over kill, maybe, it is cheap and effective!

~Richard

Thanks everyone, my razor is on it's way now and is protected nicely. It's inside a plastic tube filled with cotton. surrounded by bubble wrap and inside a small, stiff cardboard box.

I took delivery of a razor today shipped:

Razor in original box, in plastic baggie, wrapped in bubble wrap, stuffed tightly into a 3" round mailing tube--18 inches worth*, and capped with plastic plugs.

Overkill, but effective.

The tang was poking out of the box, but I expect that was a "pre-existing condition".


*no doubt I'll saw that in half and have two tubes that'll hold 1/2 dozen razors each easily.