[Histonet] shipping slides, elementary question

[Percival Karen]

Hi Nicole,
 
I've shipped slides many times in the hinged, cardboard slide boxes.  If you wrap bubble wrap around them and use extra bubble wrap or "peanuts" in the shipping container so that the boxes don't move around, you should be fine.
Good luck,
karen
 
Karen Percival, BS, HT
Research Scientist II
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>>> Nicole Collette <collette2 <@t> mail.llnl.gov> 1/8/2010 1:28 PM >>>

Happy Friday everyone,

I have a very basic question about shipping slides (mouse tissue, 
non-biohaz). I am planning to ship a bunch to a collaborator, on the 
order of a few hundred. I have black hinged cardboard/wood 100-slide 
boxes, similar to

  https://www.vwrsp.com/catalog/product/index.cgi?catalog_number=48452-001&inE=1&highlight=48452-001 

will these be sufficient for shipping (provided I ensure they stay 
closed during transit) to avoid breakage? I have slide mailers, but 
they only hold a few slides. I will do that if I need to (it would be 
a whole lot of packaging and labeling though...), but don't want to 
just send a giant box and have them all broken on the other end. 
Maybe there's another alternative? I'm sure someone on histonet has 
done this before :)

Thanks in advance for the advice.

Sincerely,
Nicole Collette
Lawrence Livermore National Lab/ UC Berkeley
collette2 <@t> llnl.gov 



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