Thread: The reason I’ve been selling razors lately.

I am saddened by the loss.
When I ship i actually use four bands of filament tape around the box, flats, ends and sides. and then use transparent packaging tape to cover the edges and shipping label.

I also put a duplicate address inside the box. Inside the box for content protection, I use "Sill Seal," about a i/4th inch thick high density flexible foam wrapped around each item with the ends of that tube taped shut. It recovers... unlike bubble wrap which gives one save per bubble that is bumped and destroyed.
I did have more than one battered box and letter come into my place. One of which appears to have had the blade winkled out by a carrier.

Flat Rate is cheap and there is no extra charge for the weight of the safety padding and heavily taped protection. Routing info is also a real plus.
Never use an envelope or cheap padding! JMO

sill seal foam gasket Its cheap too!
Better safe than frustrated!
YMMV
~Richard
PS, if you ship liquids, wrap the cap where it joins\s the bottle with #33 electrical tape. It holds the cap and prevents leaks when the bottle is air shipped along the way.

Originally Posted by Geezer

I am saddened by the loss.
When I ship i actually use four bands of filament tape around the box, flats, ends and sides. and then use transparent packaging tape to cover the edges and shipping label.

I also put a duplicate address inside the box. Inside the box for content protection, I use "Sill Seal," about a i/4th inch thick high density flexible foam wrapped around each item with the ends of that tube taped shut. It recovers... unlike bubble wrap which gives one save per bubble that is bumped and destroyed.
I did have more than one battered box and letter come into my place. One of which appears to have had the blade winkled out by a carrier.

Flat Rate is cheap and there is no extra charge for the weight of the safety padding and heavily taped protection. Routing info is also a real plus.
Never use an envelope or cheap padding! JMO

sill seal foam gasket Its cheap too!
Better safe than frustrated!
YMMV
~Richard
PS, if you ship liquids, wrap the cap where it joins\s the bottle with #33 electrical tape. It holds the cap and prevents leaks when the bottle is air shipped along the way.

When I ship razors I always seal them inside an airtight bag with a vacuum sealer (with something to prevent the pressure from pushing the blade into the scales, since it can crack them), and I tape that into the inside of the box. I hadn't thought of using the address inside the box too, that's a good idea!

I also always tape the box ends. This was shipped from an auction house and they... did not do a great job packing it.

Still doesn't beat the time I got a razor shipped to me in a manila envelope. No padding, not even spare paper. If memory serves, it had ivory scales and it survived just fine!

Sorry to hear about this loss. It is a beauty.

It's a shame.
I always use well sealed boxes after the time I sent an expensive razor in a jiffy bag.
Some one just tore it open and helped themselves.
I blame me

That's a shame alright. Reminds me when I purchased a couple of razors from Europe described as damaged goods. Sent in a courier bag with no bubble wrap. By the time they got here, they certainly were damaged goods...

Dude, that is crazy cool! Man, they must have seriously liked that man to get him such a wonderful gift - though I’m sure it was but a small token. Gift giving in those communities is very commonplace. Especially in the day.

Either way, you need to do even more homework - find further connections. Take the story deeper. And then report back of course.

And yeah, after you started selling your prized stuff, I think we all expected to hear about your new DE collection. This is a very cool twist!

Originally Posted by earcutter

Dude, that is crazy cool! Man, they must have seriously liked that man to get him such a wonderful gift - though I’m sure it was but a small token. Gift giving in those communities is very commonplace. Especially in the day.

Either way, you need to do even more homework - find further connections. Take the story deeper. And then report back of course.

And yeah, after you started selling your prized stuff, I think we all expected to hear about your new DE collection. This is a very cool twist!

These weren’t (as far as I know) razors for Wagner, but to be sold by him. No doubt intended for folks with a pile of scratch. This represents a tier of fancy razor I haven’t seen much of. Not quite ‘bespoke for royalty’ (those solid silver, gold-gilt scales and gold plated blades) or even ‘working tool of the landed gentry’(much fancier blade patterns), but definitely above ‘top shelf in the stationer’s shop’ (cased set in tortoise or ivory scales).

Originally Posted by Geezer

I am saddened by the loss.
When I ship i actually use four bands of filament tape around the box, flats, ends and sides. and then use transparent packaging tape to cover the edges and shipping label.

I also put a duplicate address inside the box. Inside the box for content protection, I use "Sill Seal," about a i/4th inch thick high density flexible foam wrapped around each item with the ends of that tube taped shut. It recovers... unlike bubble wrap which gives one save per bubble that is bumped and destroyed.
I did have more than one battered box and letter come into my place. One of which appears to have had the blade winkled out by a carrier.

Flat Rate is cheap and there is no extra charge for the weight of the safety padding and heavily taped protection. Routing info is also a real plus.
Never use an envelope or cheap padding! JMO

sill seal foam gasket Its cheap too!
Better safe than frustrated!
YMMV
~Richard
PS, if you ship liquids, wrap the cap where it joins\s the bottle with #33 electrical tape. It holds the cap and prevents leaks when the bottle is air shipped along the way.

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Actually, there are better tapes than "electrical". Electrical tape, with it's elasticity, can actually begin to peel and "loosen" in transit, especially with the temperature fluctuations that result from air travel. You can purchase tape that has the same gripping qualities of electrical tape, but with less elasticity, thus no risk once applied.


Something like this . . . https://www.uline.ca/BL_3102/Bag-Tapes We use the 5/8" for our Dangerous Goods samples at work.

Also, the best way to seal a sample bottle is to put a strip of tape over top of the bottle (from front to back, over the cap). Then you wrap the tape around the closure in a clockwise direction starting below the cap and finishing on the cap.



I prep samples of Dangerous Goods for transport to our US labs.

Gorilla tape. You can get it in the same width as electrical tape, but once that stuff sets it’s murder to get off.