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SEPTEMBER 2013
By Jillian Daley |
Photographs by
Vern Uyetake
Properly packaging parental bundles of love
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N
othing doesn’t say “I love you”
like a soggy box containing a
shattered jar of grandma’s fa-
mous pickles.
So parents and grandparents who want
to wrap things up right for a college care
package may want to heed some advice
from Gabe Salinas, manager of the FedEx
store at West Linn Central Village, 22000
Willamette Drive.
Salinas said before he even gets into
customized packing such as pickle jar-pro-
tecting, there are a few key rules to getting
goods safely fromA to B:
■
Use a good box, or the bottom
could drop out.
“A box tends to lose its structural
integrity every time it’s shipped,
so even if a box looks good, it could
have lost its strength,” Salinas said.
■
Fill the void. Make sure all space
in a box is well-insulated with filler.
■
Seal a package well, and it will
keep the elements out.
As for the pickles, Salinas recommends
popping any glass container full of liquid
into a Ziploc bag, so in case the glass shat-
ters, the liquid will be contained. The jar
also should be encased in layers of bubble
tape that are about 2- to 3-inches thick.
Homemade cookies ought to be snug in a
container and cushioned with wrinkled up
wax paper, he said.
When it comes to electronics, such as a
DVDplayer, a commonmistake is using pa-
per as a filler material, which “doesn’t pro-
tect against vibration and shock,” Salinas
said. He called bubble tape the preferred
product for that kind of shipment.
He recommends getting small, frag-
ile glass figurines professionally packed
for shipping. His team knows how to roll
bubble wrap so the surfaces are squared
rather than taking the shape of the figu-
rine, which can leave a longer, thinner part
vulnerable. After being bubble-wrapped,
the item goes into a small box then into a
bigger box.
Clothes are tempting to just pop in a box
and send away, but Salinas said tucking
garments into a plastic bag before boxing
themwill protect themagainst rain or dust.
For protective parents who want to send
their kids pepper spray, Salinas said any
sort of aerosol container is considered a
dangerous good, and a retail FedEx store
won’t pack it up for you, but a FedEx station
probably can help, depending on the item.
There’s a FedEx station on Lower Boones
Ferry near Interstate 5 in Lake Oswego.
“Theywould have expertswhowould let
you know because if (a dangerous good is)
going on a plane, there are certain safety
preparations you’re going to need to take,”
he said.
When in doubt about how to ship, he
said he’s here to ask, too.
“We would love people to bring in their
items, have them packed and shipped pro-
fessionally, because we are trained to do
it,” he said.
Also, get that money wired when a col-
lege kid’s in need.
“We don’t recommend shipping cash,”
Salinas said.
A box tends to lose its struc-
tural integrity every time it’s
shipped, so even if a box looks
good, it could have lost its
strength.
— Gabe Salinas
Gabe Salinas, store manager at FedEx,
demonstrates ways to package dif-
ferent items for college care packag-
es. Salinas wraps each item in bubble
wrap, places it in a box, adds paper
so the item cannot shift inside the
box and tapes up all the edges of the
box. He puts less fragile items, such as
books, in plastic bags to protect them
against moisture.
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