Not how you hope they arrive - Mishandled mail pic

[lightsoutcalls]

Look into buying some white mailing boxes . They are built stronger than the priority mail boxes and stand up to more abuse . The best part is that they will cost you very little per box , probably around 25 cents apiece. My postal clerk always says " Marking the box fragile is ok , but that 40 lb box that drops on it ...can't read ! "  With the mailing boxes you don't pay the priority rates that go with their boxes from the P.O.  It will drop your shipping rates by half .

you can get them for nothing and delivered too.  From the postal web site.

The cube shaped priority mail boxes (7x7x6) are sturdier than the ones pictured.  The ones shaped/sized to ship a video tape are the ones getting thinner.  I have had them delivered to the house in shipments of up to 200 at a time.  I know they are available, but I will not be shipping another call in this style box.  I ordered some boxes off of ebay and hope to have them anyday.  I have calls ready to go out, but won't be shipping them in the "free" video mailer sized boxes again.  I'll likely take the rest of those to my local post office and drop them off to give to other folks.  The cube shaped boxes give lots of room for packing materials.  I can't picture a call getting damaged in them, but the striker has to pack diagonally in them... still a chance of getting the striker damaged.  Given the right circumstances, ANY box could get crushed enough to break the contents.

[BigGobbler]

I used to work at the airport in Orlando for the big brown company unloading  the planes and loading the trucks up for daily delivery and have seen everything that could happen to a package,the little 1 pound packages do not have a chance against the 50+ pound packages. It will happen and there is not much that can be done about it, but when you realize how many packages go through all the mail services the few packages that do get damaged is very low,you just hate it when it's one of yours.

[stone road turkey calls]

Look into buying some white mailing boxes . They are built stronger than the priority mail boxes and stand up to more abuse . The best part is that they will cost you very little per box , probably around 25 cents apiece. My postal clerk always says " Marking the box fragile is ok , but that 40 lb box that drops on it ...can't read ! "  With the mailing boxes you don't pay the priority rates that go with their boxes from the P.O.  It will drop your shipping rates by half .

you can get them for nothing and delivered too.  From the postal web site.

The cube shaped priority mail boxes (7x7x6) are sturdier than the ones pictured.  The ones shaped/sized to ship a video tape are the ones getting thinner.  I have had them delivered to the house in shipments of up to 200 at a time.  I know they are available, but I will not be shipping another call in this style box.  I ordered some boxes off of ebay and hope to have them anyday.  I have calls ready to go out, but won't be shipping them in the "free" video mailer sized boxes again.  I'll likely take the rest of those to my local post office and drop them off to give to other folks.  The cube shaped boxes give lots of room for packing materials.  I can't picture a call getting damaged in them, but the striker has to pack diagonally in them... still a chance of getting the striker damaged.  Given the right circumstances, ANY box could get crushed enough to break the contents.

what size box did you order?

[lightsoutcalls]

8x4x2

[shadetree callers]

 I wasn't referring to the post office supplied boxes . I suggested that you don't use those . Find a corrugated box supplier and ask for their white mailing boxes . You can get them in a wide variety of sizes and you will be able to get the right size for your needs . I buy the 4x4x13 inch boxes mostly because I use them to mail my fencepost callers. I pay less than 50 cents a box and you will probably get them cheaper than that in the size that you need . These boxes are much sturdier and you can get a size that allows you to pack them really good with bubble wrap , etc.  Another good point is that you can write the address on the box , they don't need wrapped and the shipping costs are half of what you pay if you use the post office priority boxes . Just google corrugated boxes and your city .