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Thread: Packing - What to wrap in plastic?

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    Default Packing - What to wrap in plastic?

    I'm packing up everything to ship to NZ (via UPakWeShip).

    What items should I wrap in plastic? I read about plastic either being good or bad in terms of moisture.

    Should I wrap the following in plastic:

    1) electronics
    2) books
    3) clothes
    4) anything else?

    Thanks!

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    the advice from my shipping company-

    not to cover wood with plastic but to cover with paper first then bubble wrap

    Books - line box with bubble wrap, then pack in as best as can filling voids with paper or bubble wrap

    can't help with electronics

    clothes - I've put into vacuum bags (that shrink when air is sucked out)

    HTH

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    Hmm. I think we wrapped electronics in the sort of plastic that came with the original packaging (light, protective, not sealing), but other than that, we loose bagged some quilts in one of the boxes, but nothing else was plastic wrapped with UPAK (other than the huge amount of plastic wrap on the outside of our pallet of boxes ).

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    Thanks! So it sounds like it's okay to skip the airtight plastic and keep the bubble wrap relatively loose, so the stuff can breath...

    Has anyone had problems w/ moisture affecting electronics during shipment?

    Is it worth investing in those little anti-moisture packets?

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    Quote Originally Posted by denalipop View Post
    Is it worth investing in those little anti-moisture packets?
    Yes.

    I used a few of the bags that you use a vacum to suck out the air for some of our stuff. When the air was removed then I taped the bag so it could not draw in much air if the seal leacked.

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