HOW TO PACK SPECIALTY ITEMS
Dishware
- Select a medium-sized carton and line bottom of the carton with crumpled packing paper
- Place stack of packing paper worktable and place one plate on the center of the top paper
- Grasp a corner on several sheets of packing paper and pull the paper over the plate until sheets completely cover the plate. Stack a second plate on and, moving clockwise, grasp a second corner and pull sheets over the second plate.
- Stack a third plate. Grasp remaining two corners, folding two sheets of each corner (one at a time) over the plate
- Turn your wrapped stack of plates upside down onto your packing paper
- Re-wrap the entire bundle: start with one corner of packing paper and pull two sheets over the bundle; cover bundle with next corner, then the third corner; and finally, the fourth
- Seal the bundle with packing tape
- Place the bundle of dishware in a medium-size box with the plates are standing on edge, not flat
- Use this process on all saucers, bread and butter dishes, and other dishware. When packing smaller dishes, you may choose to stack in greater quantity.