Advice On Post and packing Vinyl please

[sparkdeco]

I have oodles of 70s and 80s vinyl albums that I am finally getting around to clearing out. I am thinking of listing some of them on here, but how do you get around the packaging side of things with the vinyl being so fragile

thanks Dawn

[BAGHAG999]

Vinyl needs to packed by cardbord to keep it stiff, cheap way is to cut up some cardboard boxes to size and send in a waterproof plastic mailer.
Or buy some record mailers but these may need a stiffner card in them and they are not cheap.

[Huddylion]

I use carboard boxes You can get from Supermarkets a template made about 7.5 x 7.5 then away you go normally cardboard either side of record,in a mailing sack if its an extra special record I would use more card either side of it, dont bother with card board mailers and backing board just eats in to your profit , make sure you cut your card up as neatly as possible to make it look better.

Not had a breakage as of yet

[booksntings]

I'm with Huddy on this one. Lots of perfectly good strong cardboard from supermarkets. I have sent hundreds of singles and LPs this way. Never bought a mailer for over 5 years. And like Huddy not had any problems.

Cheers Mel

[sparkdeco]

ok, everyone, appreciate the tips. It appears using cardboard cut outs works fine, so i will give it a go.

[CrazyJay]

I cut down boxes for LPs, but have quite a few proper mailing boxes for various quantities of 45 rpm singles - (due to my addiction of the last couple of years .)