Finding wine shipping packing materials in Paris
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Andrew Zachary
Andrew Zachary
From the title, I was hoping you were the one in Paris!
The solution for next time is to check an empty styro shipper as luggage on your way over. pack a little tape in your regular luggage.
For the advanced class, 30' of 1/2" rope can be tied into a very fancy handle.
It is curious which technologies cross which way across the Atlantic when.
For the advanced class, 30' of 1/2" rope can be tied into a very fancy handle.
It is curious which technologies cross which way across the Atlantic when.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
The solution for this time is to put things in a suitcase wrapped in one's clothing.
I never knew what a "styrofoam shipper" was until coming to NYC. I asked around in Paris once I'd heard of it. No one seemed to know therefrom.
La Poste will have bottle shippers (1 or 3 or 6 bottles), but they are prepaid for sending by the post. So, expensive if you just want the packaging.
I never knew what a "styrofoam shipper" was until coming to NYC. I asked around in Paris once I'd heard of it. No one seemed to know therefrom.
La Poste will have bottle shippers (1 or 3 or 6 bottles), but they are prepaid for sending by the post. So, expensive if you just want the packaging.
Bill Lundstrom
Bill Lundstrom
What Sharon said. I've packed a case of wine in a suit case many times. Just wrap the bottles in clothing. Socks are good for sliding bottles in too.
robert ames
robert ames
i still remember pulling out of my luggage a heavy sock full of broken glass and a label that said fonseca 1970. it must have happened at loading at heathrow--by the time i got a anchorage my luggage was dry--but aromatic.
Tom Glasgow
Thomas W Glasgow
I've packed 2 to 4 bottles in my suitcase but not a full case. The wine shop associated with Fish may have shippers they are willing to sell.
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
I would add to SF Joe's recommendation buying the Wine Check to put the shipper in. It has wheels and handles, making it easier to carry. Because when one goes over, it doesn't look like an empty box (unsurprisingly) it has less chance of being lost--which has happened to me and one can't really claim it had any value, so there airline has no real incentive to recover it. And finally, you get fewer questions at customs.
vaughn tan
vaughn tan
one of the guys at auge offered to sell me a corrugated 12-bottle shipping case when i was there a few weeks ago but i didn't take them up on it—they might sell them even if you don't buy wine?
have also begun to pack a smallish lightweight duffel bag (from MEC, for the canadians) to put shipping cases into so that the thing that gets checked qualifies as a soft-sided bag (apparently treated with more care than boxes).
have also begun to pack a smallish lightweight duffel bag (from MEC, for the canadians) to put shipping cases into so that the thing that gets checked qualifies as a soft-sided bag (apparently treated with more care than boxes).