How to Ship Candles

Amanda, I ship UPS and occasionally USPS. I do not add any hardners to the wax. In summer I refrigerate the candles and then pack them with one or more of those frozen reusable cooler packs. That's the best description I can come up with at this moment. LOL
In summer and winter, I try to ship on a day when the package will be delivered before the end of the week. If I have to ship to zone 8 I ship on Monday so it will arrive on the following Monday.
I always pack my candles in one box and then place that box inside another box with packing material between the 2 cartons. I do not buy special boxes. I merely save all boxes that vendors ship to me.
I worked for UPS for 16 years so I know what a package endures during its trek. In 4 years of shipping candles etc., I have never had a melted, frozen or broken candle. My packing a box within a box is the best way I know.
In winter the best insulator against the cold that I know of for cheap is newspaper. Those hobos you see in movies on park benches wrapped in nwespaper know what they are doing. Newspaper is a great insulator.
Bubble wrap is also good but more expensive than some other packing materials.
I save any and all packing materials that come out of shipments I receive from my vendors. Sometimes it's bubble wrap, sometimes it's styrofoam peanuts, sometimes crumpled paper. But I save it all and reuse it for my shipments.
Brian Bock
Candlelier Candle Creations, Inc