How do I mail SCOBYs??

[Brandy Lance]

I have someone that I need to send a SCOBY to but have no clue how I should package it.  How do you all do it so that it doesn't leak, how much tea do I need to send w/ it, do I just mail it with standard shipping or will that take too long?  Help asap please!!  Thanks much!  :)

 

Brandy

[Pam Genant]

Hi Brandy,

I asked someone else because I wasn't sure, and got some advice before I sent my first scoby.  What I did was....put one scoby plus 1-2 cups of kombucha in a baggie, got out as much air as I could, then zip locked it and taped the end so it wouldn't leak.  I then put that into another zip lock and zipped up the end and taped that.  I did it one more time so I had three bags.  Maybe overkill, but I was afraid the bag would get broken in shipping.  I put the baggie in a padded envelope.  And it worked, got there safe and sound.  I sent it USPS, priority mail.

 

[Brandy Lance]

Great!  Thx Pam.  :)  Pat also told me on FB that you can use the $5 flat rate box from the post office.  So I think I'll do your bagging method and put it in a box.  Surely that should do it? 

 

Thanks again for the help!

Pam Genant said:

Hi Brandy,

I asked someone else because I wasn't sure, and got some advice before I sent my first scoby.  What I did was....put one scoby plus 1-2 cups of kombucha in a baggie, got out as much air as I could, then zip locked it and taped the end so it wouldn't leak.  I then put that into another zip lock and zipped up the end and taped that.  I did it one more time so I had three bags.  Maybe overkill, but I was afraid the bag would get broken in shipping.  I put the baggie in a padded envelope.  And it worked, got there safe and sound.  I sent it USPS, priority mail.