What is the best way to ship a set? In a binder?

ndleo

I have a few 1970's baseball sets that I plan to sell. What is the best way to ship them? In the binders and pages? Or in a box? The last time I shipped a set I used penny sleeves and double boxed it. However some of the sets are close to 700 cards and I would like to use a less labor intensive method.

Sean1125

Either way works I've done it both ways, just have some sort of "sleeved" protection and pack it well.

digicat

As someone who's received sets in binders in the mail, I'd recommend against it. It's very easy for the cards to jiggle loose from the pages and bounce around. I still remember opening up a flat rate box with a binder and some paper shoved in for padding, and finding that a bunch of cards had gotten out of their pages. I suppose if you were able to add something to the binder to hold it firmly closed, the friction would prevent the cards from moving. Maybe hold it closed and wrap some kitchen plastic wrap around the binder a few times?


When selling a full set in something like an 800 count box, and you don't want to sleeve every card, try cutting strips of cardboard to fill the open spaces in the box. That'll keep the cards from bouncing around. After that, put the 800 ct box in a larger box and pad it well enough so that the inner box won't make contact with any edge or corner of the outer box. A generous application of wadded up newspaper, or foam packing peanuts works wonders.

If packaged correctly, a hit to the corner or edge of the outer box will not transfer into the inner box.

arex

<< <i>I have a few 1970's baseball sets that I plan to sell. What is the best way to ship them? In the binders and pages? Or in a box? The last time I shipped a set I used penny sleeves and double boxed it. However some of the sets are close to 700 cards and I would like to use a less labor intensive method. >>


What about getting 2 400 count boxes and then splitting the set into two parts. That would, in a penny sleeve be a nice tight fit. Then, the two boxes could easily fit into a Medium Priority Mail FRB (and still leave lots of room for other stuff and padding) for reasonable shipping.

Statman

Like digicat said above, I've used the plastic wrap method. If you have the set in pages, just wrap the pages in plastic wrap and then wrap that in padding and slip it into a medium flat rate priority box. That has always worked well for me.

mike22y2k

I have sent tons and tons of sets over the years. If you are shipping to Canada in a binder the cost will be huge. At least double the costs. The more expensive sets I would take the pages out of the binder and wedge them between two pieces of cardboard and tape the edges so no cards move. You can bubble wrap the cardboard and pages and wrap with rubberbands so the new owner can open it fairly easy. I don't care how careful you are when you pack stuff in 2,4,7 hundred count boxes there will always be some damage. If you really care about the sets you are selling then keep them in the pages.

Just my opinion

Mike

jeffcbay

Never ship the pages inside a binder. It allows way too much movement in-transit. I wrap the pages the same way I wrap cards that I send to PSA. I place a piece of cardboard that matches the size of a sheet on both ends of the bundle, then wrap the whole thing with a few rubber bands, then wrap the whole thing in bubble wrap. This pressure of the rubber bands prevents the cards from slipping out the top of the pockets. Pack the entire box with foam peanuts. Works great every time.

ndleo

Guys - Thank you so much for the advice.