Stave mailing

[Allyn T]

Um, so how does one go about sending a stave to someone?

[Deerhunter21]

put it in a box, put the adress and name on the box, go to your local post office where they will take the box and hope it gets there without a hitch!

[Kidder]

So what tends to be the cheapest shipping in the US for this sort of parcel? UPS, USPS, FedEx, or something else?

[Eric Krewson]

Go to a carpet store and get one of those cardboard tubes they roll carpet on, they will usually give you one for free. Trim the stave down to be the least weight possible. Put the stave in the tube with plenty of newspaper on the ends and duct tape the ends closed very well.

The key to a reasonable shipping cost (USPS) is not have the total dimensions of the tube be over 84". That is the circumference and the length added together, They hit you with a balloon payment if your tube is over the maximum.

You could also just wrap the stave in shrink wrap, put an address label on it and ship it.

[Pat B]

If it is a raw stave I would cut to near the ultimate length the recipient wants it(maybe a little longer) wrap it with paper and shipping tape(or just shipping tape or shrink wrap), label it and take it to your local Post Office. I've done this for year with good results and never lost a stave or anything else shipping with USPS.

[Allyn T]

Thank you Eric and Pat

[bradsmith2010]

wrapping in paper and tape is good,,

[Selfbowman]

Same as Pat. Wrap with paper. Arvin

[gifford]

Another method I have used is to put the address on an index card and taped it to the split (about 1/4 th of the original section). My local post office took it, measured it and pronounced it okay to ship and away it went.

Also had a nice visit about osage, or hedge as he referred to it, and bow making.

Check with your post office to obtain the maximum dimensions, I don't recall what it was.

[osage outlaw]

Don't waste time making a box for it.   You don't need that.  I wrap them in plastic and tape a label to it.  Never had one get lost and I shipped a bunch of them. 

[Allyn T]

Sounds like paper and plastic are the two winners. Thanks guys

[bradsmith2010]

yes just keep it simple,,

[Eric Krewson]

I sent a 4" wide osage stave to a guy in Arkansas, I put it in a carpet tube. The USPS broke it in half, now, that took some doing. I didn't insure it because I thought "no one can break this massive stave".

[Allyn T]

I will Brad for sure. Eric that sounds insane

[Deerhunter21]

I sent a 4" wide osage stave to a guy in Arkansas, I put it in a carpet tube. The USPS broke it in half, now, that took some doing. I didn't insure it because I thought "no one can break this massive stave".

What the crap!! how in the world does that happen!!! that takes some sort of special to break a osage stave... must have put it under a fridge... braced between two cinderblocks...