Shipping 78 RPM records with their hard cardboard jacket

I know that there is a standard method of packaging 78 discs using cardboard squares to act as a sandwich, followed by wrapping the sandwich together with tape and placing it in a box with styrofoam peanuts.

But if the discs came with a hard cardboard "book" jacket, would leaving the discs inside the jacket and within their attached sleeves with cardboard squares placed on both sides of the sleeves work just as well (followed by the usual box and peanuts), or should I remove the discs from the jacket and sandwich them as above?

 

no way anyone in human history has ever successfully shipped a 78 in the mail dawg. u gotta fly out there, rent a car, and drive it back

 

If you try to ship an album (which is where the term originally came from) of 78 discs in that album they will arrive in shards. Pack the discs one by one and throw the empty album in the box.

 

Wawawawawait... so glad I read this. I am about to ship 78s for the first time. I have some that are sold in lots of 2-3 and some single, all without covers. Would they be OK sandwiched in cardboard and then placed in a cardboard record mailer? Or I need boxes?

 

Follow these directions:

Shipping 78 rpm Records »

 

Yup. This is the correct method. Follow these instructions and you should have no problems.

 

Ah! News to me. That will likely save me some problems. I will write "fragile" on the box but I sometimes wonder if they choose those boxes to play games with.

C