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I needed some unique ideas for how to pack delicate items, specifically a fossil skull, to be mailed.?

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1. you should do first cover it with a lot of newspaper and bubble plastic before putting inside the box..then put a sign fragile outside the box..
2. I would pack it in a box in a bigger box. Put in bubble wrap, peanuts whatever you can use with a fossil skull in to the first box. Then put that box in a bigger box all filled in with peanuts (Styrofoam) and make sure that the smaller box is placed in the middle of the peanuts so it is suspended ...so to speak. Seal up real secure and there you go....
3. Use tissue or newspaper and peanuts you gotta mark fragile too.
4. Zairia is correct, but I'd put the first box inside a second box with more bubble plastic. I used that technique to ship a fossil sponge to a sponge expert, and it worked really well. If you want a really unique idea, create a system that would suspend the skull (suitably sealed) in water. Any dropping of the box would result in only a minor change in pressure inside the water vessel.
5. The very first thing I would do is contact a museum and ask them how they transport delicate materials. They're experts on this sort of thing, and can tell you what kinds of boxes they use, how they wrap, pad, and fill objects, and what materials they use. The second thing I would do is purchase insurance on the object. The third thing I would do is transport it by a courier service rather than use the regular postal mail. The museum could probably also suggest a courier service that handles delicate materials carefully. Most postal systems have regulations about what can and cannot be mailed. You should contact your local post office to find out. In the United States, for example, it is prohibited to mail human remains (so if your fossilized skull is a human skull, no matter how old it is, you can't send it through the mail).