Thursday, June 07, 2012

I provided my packaging horror story. Eleanor Cicerchi of Corning responds:

Oh my goodness. What a disappointment. I’ve had porcelain break in shipping, never Carder glass. Do peanuts work better?

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Charles Sweigart of Reinholds, Pennsylvania suggests opening a package with a razor blade; not a scissors.

Wrapping tape around the bubble wrap prevents the unwrapping of it. A real plus when filling the remaining box voids with other material. To open any taped bubbles one should just cut with light pressure and a single edge razor not a scissors. To use a scissors you must first pierce into the wrap and risk touching glass with metal. The razor can cut tape and barely invade the surface of the bubbles which are easily torn apart by hand.

Whenever possible glass should be wrapped in paper or even a plastic bag before putting bubble wrap around.

This was the method used when the Corning Glass Museum returned a piece to me after a failed attempt to sell to them. A 6” tall piece wrapped in tissue with tissue balled inside, wrapped in bubble, taped bubble surrounded by peanuts in a 10” cube box, inside a 2.5’ cubed box filled with peanuts. I am sure most internet purchasers never expect to get a piece of glass packaged in this manner as it surely was a surprise to me. That said, it would have survived a 10’ free-fall with no damage and they paid the shipping.

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2012 Carder Steuben Club annual Symposium will be held at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY from September 20-22, 2012.

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