Author Topic: Packaging fleece  (Read 1909 times)

SophieLeeds

  • Joined Aug 2014
  • Yorkshire
Packaging fleece
« on: June 29, 2015, 08:18:50 am »
What do I package fleece in for posting? Is a cardboard box alright?

They are 100% dry
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Packaging fleece
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2015, 08:34:00 am »
I discovered last year that transporting fleeces in hot weather may cause them to sweat and hence felt, so would avoid plastic bags or anything that doesn't breathe.  (And if you must use plastic, make some airholes.)

In other than very hot weather, I put them in a polyproplylene sack inside a cardboard box.  In hot weather I don't now send them at all if I can avoid it, but if I had to, I'd use a cotton pillowcase inside the cardboard.  I might make breathe holes in the cardboard, too.
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SophieLeeds

  • Joined Aug 2014
  • Yorkshire
Re: Packaging fleece
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2015, 08:36:31 am »
Thanks Sally, pillowcase in a holey box it is  :thumbsup:
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Packaging fleece
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2015, 11:16:13 am »
I send mine in woven polypropylene sacks, with the top carefully tied so it doesn't catch in the postal machinery.
You can write the address on the sack.
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