Fold or roll quilt with tissue paper. Place a copy of adress label inside package. Wrap box or container with several heavy plastic trash bags and seal securely with package tape. Then wrap with heavy brown paper. Be alsolutely certain to insure your package. Have mailed nearly 100 quilts and never had a quilt lost or damaged. What a joy for the new mother! :)

I want to thank all of you for your advice about how to send a quilt. I followed it with great success. I labelled it inside too, water protected it, decorated the box outside with hearts and of course insured it. I sent it from my local UPS Store and my friend had to sign for it. I never did check the tracking because it got there when it was supposed to. The only thing that would've been better was to have brought it in a box instead of buying theirs.... but I didn't have one that worked.

I printed out all your suggestions for future needs. And I didn't give away my grown-up now kid's pool foam noodles since Klue said she rolls quilts on them.

You can see the wallhanging quilt I made and sent to my far-away friend on the Pictures section. It arrived a week before her daughter gave birth to twins... just in time to put up before things got crazy!

Thanks again!