Paul, what happens when you try to ship into the US? Inquiring minds wish to know. Thanks. Joyce
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Paul <pm...@tallships.ca> wrote: > Hi Joyce, with respect, shipping out of the US may be easy, shipping > into the US is another kettle of fish! > > cheers > Paul > > On Jan 26, 5:25 pm, Joyce Westphal <westpha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I do flies, I like to make a paper or cardstock about 4 x 2 that has > > the recipe for the fly on it. Then I stick the point of the fly in that > > cardboard. Next, using big plastic bags, I use a kitchen Oster food > sealer > > to seal the fly and cardboard in a plastic envelope. They arrive in > perfect > > shape just stuck in any foam padded or Priority mail box and are easy to > > sort and send on to each of the flytiers without the hassle of twisted > toe > > tags and stuck together hooks. You don't need anything more..not even a > box. > > I ship all over the world and they get through customs nicely as you can > see > > what they are without the risk of someone opening up the box and spilling > > the flies..and, when you ship through customs, be sure to put how many > flies > > you are sending. That seems to prevent the customs workers from helping > > themselves to a sample. Just my two cents worth on what works really well > > for me. Joyce > > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:34 AM, J Balmer <jbal...@a5.com> wrote: > > > I attach my flies directly to a toe tag, place that in a manila coin > > > envelope & then put them in a mailing envelope that has a bubble wrap > liner. > > > > > *From:* vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-m...@googlegroups.com] > *On > > > Behalf Of *scott bearden > > > *Sent:* Monday, January 25, 2010 11:13 PM > > > > > *To:* vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > > > *Subject:* [VFB] Shipping flies > > > > > I have never mailed flies out before and I am about to send out a few > to a > > > family member in Oklahoma who wants to make a shadow box of some of my > > > flies. It occurred to me that I needed to protect them in transit and > so I > > > found an old cheap fly box that I can live without. If this gets to be > a > > > habit I don't want to buy cheap fly boxes. For those of you that mail > out > > > dry flies routinely, what do you use that is cheap and disposable to > protect > > > them in transit? > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Scott Bearden > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > > > group. > > > > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > > > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc athttp://www.linesend.com > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > > > group. > > > > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > > > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc athttp://www.linesend.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
