Eric Yen shares how we ship safely, from keeping the company name off the outside to labeling both the inner and outer boxes.
AGTA's guide to keeping jewelry shipments safe includes tips from Eric Yen. We shorten our name to “Yens” on packages so the label gives thieves no hints about what's inside. We also put shipping labels on both the inner and outer boxes. When one of our packages went missing, the inner label is how it was identified and recovered from a carrier hub's lost and found.
The article's other tips include shipping in boxes rather than envelopes, double-boxing and padding so nothing rattles, shipping early in the week, handing packages to staff for a receipt instead of using drop boxes, and verifying anyone who calls asking for tracking details.
Summary by Yen’s Jewelry. The full article is published by AGTA e-Prism.
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