Artwork & Antique Shipping

Specialized Shipping for Valuable Art & Antiques Vero Beach

Art shipping? Pak Mail Beachside has been offering our services to artists, galleries, museums and auction houses since 1989. We provide personal service to our clients including:

• custom packaging
• crating
• shipping these items with special care.

We know that family heirlooms and works of art are precious and deserve the most attention for the safest delivery. We spare no packing material or technique because we understand what packages endure during the shipping process.
Our techinques for shipping are as follows:

• Items containing glass, such as framed art and pictures, receives a layer of glass mask to protect the print, photograph or artwork that lay underneath and layer of scratch preventative, called furniture wrap, is applied.(Furniture wrap is a combination of thick tissue paper and wrap designed to prevent abrasion and scratching.)
• Next is a layer of styro-board that is sized and applied using stretch-wrap around the piece to withstand any mishandling event that might occur.
• The piece is surrounded with a double-walled corrugated container or a crate.  Fine are crating is one of our many specialties. We have in-stock picture boxes for the most common artwork sizes but we are prepared to build any size double-walled corrugated container or crate necessary.
• Lastly, the space left between the carefully wrapped artwork and container is filled using packing peanuts. Nothing should be loose when finally packed for shipment.

Our packaging is exceptional for protecting against damage; however, in the unlikely event of damage or loss, Pak Mail has value coverage available to its customers to cover the value of the artwork. We have the support of our Pak Mail corporate value coverage in addition to any coverage the shipping service may offer. A few things we ask our customers to do before shipping highly valuable pieces:

• Keep purchase receipts or appraisals as evidence of value.
• If there is no evidence indicating value, seek to have it documented in some fashion such as a quotation for similar item, publication or appraisal.
• Take several pictures of the item to document its condition.