Can bulbs be mailed in bubble mailers?

Can bulbs be mailed in bubble mailers?
Frank Cooper (Tue, 12 Nov 2019 22:57:39 PST)

The quarter inch differtiates a manually sorted letter from a small parcel that is sorted on a totally different type of machine. Think horizontal, less efficient conveyer, instead between two vertical pressure sensitive belts that process lower costing letters.

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On Nov 12, 2019, 10:13 PM, at 10:13 PM, Joe G <joseph.andrew.gorman@gmail.com> wrote:

For the seeds I've mailed out this year, multiple local post offices
have
given me a confusing set of rules - envelopes under 1/4" thick send
with a ~
$1.00 nonmachineable stamp, but any envelopes over 1/4" thick are
charged
package rates. I use two or three layers of the thin foam packaging
that
comes on flat-pack furniture and such. I haven't gotten any complaints
about crushed seeds (mostly milkweeds); hopefully I don't hear any bad
news
in the spring!

-joe in SW VA where nighttime temps tonight are forecast to be 35°F
below
average and all the pots of seedlings I had considered bringing inside
are
frozen to my nursery tables.

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 8:27 PM Frank Cooper <> wrote:

If it is not over 1/4" thick there is little to protect an envelope

from

going into the canceling machine if is letter sized. Always make

sure

packages that are envelope sized are over 1/4"
and preferably evenly flat. The trouble with bubble packs is if

the

seal is not flat or if it is stapled.
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On Nov 12, 2019, 6:14 PM, at 6:14 PM, Diane <voltaire@islandnet.com>
wrote:

Not just bulbs. I received squashed nerine seeds once.

Diane Whitehead
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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