How to ship vinyl

[twins]

I'm a member of a non profit mothers of twins club and we are thinking about doing a fundraiser at a convention using vinyl cuts (my "great" idea...we'll see...)

Anyway - since some things might need to be shipped - my question is - how do we ship things to people so they don't get ruined? My max size is 12x24 (cricut). Envelopes? Tubes?

Also - what do you recommend for charging for shipping? It is a non-profit organization so we can't really lose money on this - yet we need to make it appealing for people.

Thank you SOOO much for the feedback!

[this_old_barn]

Hello, I ship priority mail (2-3 days) -- The boxes are free from the US Post Office. I charge the actual price of shipping which is usually $4.95 to send 1 piece of wall art.

[balletcostumemom]

I use the USPS priority boxes as well. And I used to use a standard shipping fee for everything, it was $5.00 before the last rate increase. But I now send a few things snail mail in those brown office envelopes with cardboard inserts to sandwich the vinyl between. It saves the customer a little money and it saves me delivering so many locally when it's a single order. To figure out the costs, I just took what was my average shipped items dummy packaged to both UPS and USPS and got rates for them then created a chart.

[Sweetness4713]

If you are going to ship them international I would suggest using the tubes... We all know how they love to throw around other peoples mail..