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Mailing Perfume
Jan. 18th, 2015 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee34I know that when you mail perfume domestically in the US, you are supposed to ship it ground. From what I gather, alcohol based perfumes do something wonky in the air that can shatter the glass bottles they're stored in.
When I mail actual bottles of alcohol based perfume, I always do what I'm supposed to and mail the package ground. When mailing imps of BPAL (and the occasional tiny vial of Chanel), I just mail the package and don't declare it as perfume, and I've not had a problem (either with the postal service or with the vials breaking).
I've got a friend in Alaska and one in Canada who I'd like to mail some BPAL to, and it suddenly occurred to me that might be a problem giving the shipping rules. I'm not concerned about the perfume making it to them intact. I'm concerned that because a package would have to cross the border to make it to them that an inspector would see perfume inside and confiscate/destroy the package.
Anybody have any experience with this kind of thing or suggestions for me?
When I mail actual bottles of alcohol based perfume, I always do what I'm supposed to and mail the package ground. When mailing imps of BPAL (and the occasional tiny vial of Chanel), I just mail the package and don't declare it as perfume, and I've not had a problem (either with the postal service or with the vials breaking).
I've got a friend in Alaska and one in Canada who I'd like to mail some BPAL to, and it suddenly occurred to me that might be a problem giving the shipping rules. I'm not concerned about the perfume making it to them intact. I'm concerned that because a package would have to cross the border to make it to them that an inspector would see perfume inside and confiscate/destroy the package.
Anybody have any experience with this kind of thing or suggestions for me?