From: Mike Dixon Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 06:36:01 -0500

Subject: Re: Packaging of entries

There is no standard for shipping a few bottles. I have found that using

the large diameter bubble wrap cushions the bottles better than the

small bubble wrap. If you can keep the bottles from clinking and from

moving around, that would be best. Also the bottles seem to travel best

upright rather than on their side. A friend sent me a few bottles in a

small styrofoam cooler with the bottles wrapped in bubble wrap and laid

at an angle. The cooler would hold three bottles in that manner very

securely. He simply taped the cooler shut and sent it. When I fill a

package for shipment I put each bottle into a ziplock, wrap that in

bubble wrap, and place into a box lined with a garbage bag. If something

breaks then at least it will not leak. If it leaks with UPS it is

trashed most of the time, FedEx will sometimes repackage and deliver,

and I have not broken anything with DHL which I have been using for the

last year and a half without incident.

Basically if you are not comfortable dropping the package onto the floor

from chest height, you have not packaged the bottles correctly.

Cheers,

Mike Dixon

BJCP National

Wake Forest, NC