Packaging

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Well, now that the t-shirt is at the printer and the orders and money
have begin to trickle in (checking my snailmailbox is much more fun
than usual, these days), I need to find out how to package the
t-shirts.  Two considerations:  strength and weight.

I've gotten a couple of t-shirts through the mail before, and they
both arrived with their packaging totally torn to shreds.  Wimpy paper
envelopes simply won't do very well -- the t-shirt is very soft, so
when other packages bump into the t-shirt envelope, it gets torn.  I
could package the shirts in stainless steel boxes to avoid this
problem, but then we run into weight problems.  (Norway has a ramped
price system for packages -- packages over 250g cost twice as much as
packages under 250g, and a t-shirt weighs something like 230-240g.)

One possible solution would be to use some sort of strong plastic and
roll the s-shirts up, but that feels kinda yucky.  Hmn.  How about if
I roll the s-shirts very tight, roll brown paper around them and apply
adhesive tape liberally?  Or perhaps a plastic/paper combo?  Yes, I
could roll the t-shirts up, stuff them in a light plastic bag and roll
the resulting thing in brown paper.  Perhaps I should try playing
rugby with a test package first to find out how strong a package I
need... 

Another problem of Earth-shattering proportions solved!  Can the Nobel
peace price in physics be far off!?  Huh?  Huh?

-- 
  "Yes.  The journey through the human heart 
     would have to wait until some other time."