Jewelry Mailing Tips

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Published by
Jimmy at
August 30, 2017

We’re lucky – mailing jewelry is far easier and cheaper than mailing most other types of artwork! Most jewelry is small and lightweight enough to fit in the smallest size shipping box or bubble-padded envelope, and sent with a relatively small amount of postage.
Packaging Your Jewelry for Shipping
When shipping jewelry, I package the piece carefully in a ziplock jewelry bag and place it (along with its hang tag or earring card) in a cotton-padded cardboard or metal jewelry gift box.

Then I slip an elastic bow onto the box and slide a blank gift card under the elastic, to make the jewelry easy to give as a gift. Or if the customer ordered the jewelry for herself, then my packaging can make her feel that she’s just received a gift from herself!
Then I put the gift box, my packing slip, a few business cards, and any promotional flyers inside a medium-sized ziplock jewelry bag so none of these elements can be missed or thrown away accidentally when my customer opens the shipping box.

Finally, this package goes into a small bubble mailer or cardboard shipping box.

Add Protective Padding

When filling in the empty spaces between the boxed jewelry and the outer shipping box or mailer, I try to recycle or use some sort of “green” approach.
Most of the time I re-use some brown paper, clean packaging “peanuts” or bubble wrap that came as padding in boxes that were sent to me.
Alternatively, many jewelry artists use shredded paper, colorful tissue, plastic Easter grass, or other pretty packaging materials for their cushioning.
The jewelry gift box combined with the bubble mailer or shipping box together provide nice protection for the jewelry inside.
If you’re using a cardboard shipping box instead of a soft bubble mailer, you may want to put your jewelry in gift pouches instead of gift boxes.

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IMPORTANT:

Security Tip for Mailing Jewelry
The outside of your jewelry packages or mail should never have any jewelry-related words on them!
Putting anything like “Elegant Jewelry by Jane” or “Mike’s Gemstones” on the mailing label will make your package a prime target for theft somewhere along the mailing process.
Instead, I highly recommend using just your first and last name (and your customer’s first and last name) on the mailing label. The important thing is to make sure no one would think that your package contains valuable precious metals, jewelry, or gems!
The same thing goes for packages you have shipped to you. If your business name has any jewelry-related words in it, have packages shipped to your personal name instead.