1 gallon Mylar bags for shipping Honey

[Royall]

Hi everyone... been a while but have a question about shipping honey. Has anybody used the Mylar to ship via USPS? Results if you have?? I have a man on the mainland wanting a gallon shipped to him. I don't really want to try and ship in glass containers. I see 1 gallon Mylar bags available but have never used them before. Any thoughts?

[Diogenes]

My thought is, 2 half-gallon plastic containers, each heat-sealed inside a 1 gallon mylar bag as a safety barrier against leakage. (you could do 4 plastic quart container, each sealed in mylar if you prefer)

Of course, you may have other thoughts and my mind wanders at times.

[splitrock]

It's a real pain for whoever gets the honey in a bag. They are usually not used to dealing with honey.  I ship a gallon in 2 half gallon fruit juice containers in the medium flat-rate box, and have yet to have a problem. Shipping that much honey in glass, is asking for trouble.

[Colobee]

My thought is, 2 half-gallon plastic containers, each heat-sealed inside a 1 gallon mylar bag as a safety barrier against leakage. (you could do 4 plastic quart container, each sealed in mylar if you prefer)

Of course, you may have other thoughts and my mind wanders at times.

This is more or less what we do. We also try to have some crystalized bears & jugs - less chance of a mess. No problems, ever.

[Hops Brewster]

Plastic bottle inside a plastic bag to catch any leakage, well packed in 2 or 3 inches of bubble wrap. 
Remember, unless you are shipping boxed bottles by the pallet, your single 1 gallon package is going to be subjected to the abuses inflicted by freight workers under pressure to pitch freight as quickly as possible.  I literally mean 'pitch'.   They will throw packages even when labeled Fragile etc. and they don't give a tinker's daxx which end is up.

[jredburn]

The Postal service has rules and regulations regarding the shipment of liquids.  You might read them.

[Royall]

Thanks for all the advise.... I did ship one gallon in a Foodsaver bag, double sealed. Has a little seepage on that one. I sent several that were in smaller packages and they all got through. I did get the mylar bags and will try those next time.