AKICILJ, Nth iteration

[mrissa]

(That's "All Knowledge Is Contained In LiveJournal," for those of you who weren't already familiar with AKICIF.)

For those of you who are familiar with the Ziploc "disposable" plastic containers: how comfortable would you be with wrapping them in brown paper and mailing them without another box around them? I really don't want to have to get a set of boxes and fill them with crumpled newspaper around the containers if I can help it. They seem at least as sturdy as a shoebox, but markgritter said he probably wouldn't mail a shoebox, and I totally would, so now I don't know. (I have a markgritter home!) Do you think the postal service will crush them into oblivion, more so than a cardboard box? It's not worth it to have the people who are getting boxes get crushed remnants of what I meant to send. That's not the goal at all.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Ooo, disappointed. I was hoping you mailed live butterflies and that just anyone could get some.

Like the ants for an ant farm.

K.

[cpolk.livejournal.com]

Alas. I was working for people who dealt in collector's specimens. though I did learn some things about mailing pupae, which is the only way to transport live butterflies, really.

The important thing is realizing that they're not all going to survive. out of ten pupa shipped, you've got a good shipment if six are viable when they get to you. it's actually more like three. and you have to protect them agianst temperature as well as shock damage, so the packaging for pupae are very outsize.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

This is half of why it was a really bad idea for some of our acquaintances to have tried to let butterflies loose instead of throwing rice. Invariably it was the 5-year-olds who would get dead butterflies or crippled butterflies or otherwise upsetting butterfleis.

The other half is that most of the butterflies ended up on the windshields of the wedding guests as they left. Oops. Not really the image they were going for, I should think.