How To Ship Ceramics

Identify fragile areas such as handles spouts lips or handbuilt additions that require extra padding.

How to ship ceramics.

Ceramic artists are often required to pack and ship delicate work that reflects hours of hard work. Use tape to secure the wrap in place. This short video demonstrates one easy and reliable way to package ceramics. Prepare the inner and outer boxes.

Do wrap each piece separately. For instance if you are packing a hollow ceramic item such as a vase or mug fill it with packing peanuts to keep the inside layered and cushioned. Do s and don ts of packing. But first wrap your pottery ware plate cup bowl vase etc with tissue paper and then with bubble wrap.

You ll want to choose the shipping carrier that will offer you the best mix of affordable rates and reliable delivery for your pottery shipments. Packaging ceramics bubble wrapping the work begin by preparing a clean workspace and gathering packing supplies figure 1. Here are some practical packing tips when shipping ceramics. Ship your pottery with the us postal service first thing s first.

Here is the complete shipment ready to go. This is done by using a lot of packing materials such as solid foam upholsterer s foam shredded paper or crumpled newspaper and packing peanuts. Do snugly fill each box. If it was being mailed each box would be shipped separately.

First of all provide extra protection for the most easily damaged areas of the item. Do use new materials. To choose the right shipping boxes is crucial if you want the object to be. In this case that would be the united states postal service or usps for short.

The best way to avoid damages when shipping ceramics is to wrap the fragile pieces with layers of different packing materials. This shipment is going by bus so it will travel on one waybill. 151 pounds of pottery in five containers.