Package Your Chips & Tokens for Mailing Well.

Today's tip is related to yesterdays as it also deals with mailing packages.

If you plan on building your Chip and Token collection you can be sure that you will be both sending and receiving a LOT of packages in the coming years.

There is nothing worse that anxiously awaiting that special item for your collection only to find it arrived damaged or even worse, you received a package without contents. Believe me, it has happened to me before and sometimes no matter what you do, there is no way to prevent to Postal monster from devouring your chips…….

So, what can we do to make sure this happens as little as possible ??? Take extra care in packing your mailings.

There are varying opinions on what is the best way to mail Chips & Tokens and if you have been collecting for a while you have probably seen your chips arrive in a variety of packaging.

The most common and well accepted form of packaging is the Kraft Bubble Envelope. These can usually be found relatively cheap at your local Sams club or even cheaper searching EBay or from a distributor.

One of the forms that I use is that I reuse bobble mailers that are sent to me by cutting them up and packing the chip inside the bubble portion before placing it inside a business envelope. I always take the edges of the envelope for added support.

Many people like to take the chip to the inside of the bubble envelopes and that prevents it from sliding around and possible breaking thru the edge.

There are also specialty packing materials like Safe-T-Mail which is a cardboard product that has an adhesive center and is cut to fit inside either a regular or business envelope. These seem to work great but are more expensive than bubble mailers.

With all these options to use there is just no excuse for sending a chip inside a plain white envelop without any protection. That is probably the worst thing you can do as many chips have been lost in the mail that way.

If you are purchasing something from someone that is not a chipper, it is OK to suggest that they use proper packaging. Many non chippers just don’t know how damaging sending a chip thru the mail can be without padding.

Whatever method you choose to use, the better you protect the item, the better chance it will reach its intended recipient in the same condition you sent it.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled for more Tips of the day coming tomorrow.

Happy chipping to all

Doug