We need a sticky!

It's amply covered in Sticky: How Should You Package Knives for Shipping? but I sometimes get the impression the best way to keep a secret is to put it in a sticky thread. Maybe somebody who hasn't read the sticky thread will read this -- just in case:

Hey Dummy! Putting styrofoam peanuts in the box with a knife doesn't do any good because after about five minutes in the truck the knife settles to the bottom and then when the post office trolls throw it off there's no padding under it!
 
Colorado's dry climate
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Styrofoam peanut static electricity
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Me looking like a polar bear in about 6 seconds! :D

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I hate those styrofoam things too, but mostly because I'm a lazy bastard. I tend to let junk pile up in my room, including packaging. Combine this with a ceiling fan, and it doesn't take long for all those damn peanuts to be all over the frigging place.

I find newspaper and bubblewrap work just fine.
 
I hear ya; but, if I have a package to mail and those peanuts are within easy reach(in other words, somebody just sent them to me) and I'm in a hurry, they're going in the box. :)
 
Knife inside bubblewrap = doesn't settle in peanuts.
 
I agree, but....

15 minutes to make it to the post office, all thats left is plastic peanuts, shall I wait and mail it on Monday?

Nope, I admit, sometimes I am guilty of...... Peanuts.
 
Even worse - Shredded paper.

Recycling is one thing, but shredded paper with the paper dust, it just loves to find the pivots and any spots of lubrication...

Got one like that in a 20x used box with holes punched in it, I'm lucky anything was still inside.

Bubblewrap, sometimes I'm tempted to mail it to the shipper in advance...

Frank H.
 
The BEST packing material are the plastic bags they bag your groceries in at the grocery store! Put your thing in one bag, wrap it and then loosly ball up a bunch of others to pad the interior of box.

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Spark said:
Knife inside bubblewrap = doesn't settle in peanuts.
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Ditto, knife wrapped in bubble wrap, first line of peanuts in the bottom of a USPS video tape box, drop bubble wrapped knife in, then add top layer of peanuts. Works like a charm and no one has complained yet. Yet. I use the peanuts mainly to keep the bubble wrapped knife in the center of the box. :cool:

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Yeah, I usually wrap the knife in bubble wrap, then pack the rest of the box with peanuts so the knife doesn't move around and is well cushioned.

The BEST packing material are the plastic bags they bag your groceries in at the grocery store! Put your thing in one bag, wrap it and then loosly ball up a bunch of others to pad the interior of box.
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That sounds like a great idea! I'll try that the next time I ship something.

The reason I don't like receiving styrofoam peanuts is that my cats love to play with them. If there's an open box of them somewhere, within a few minutes a cat will dive into it and the peanuts will end up strewn all over the house.
 
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