Expert: Bill Finck Jr. - 2/10/2010

Question
I am in the military and will be moving soon. I have 4 large humidors, with a total of about 700 cigars. I was wondering what the safest way to transport these across country was as I have to ship them from New York to San Antonio. Thank you in advance for your response.

Answer
Justin,

Assuming you don't have the cigars in the original boxes, I would wrap them in bubble wrap and pack them in small boxes - something like 100 cigars per box. If you were to pack much more than that in a single box, you'd be taking a chance of the weight being enough to damage some of them. Maybe pack these smaller boxes inside a larger shipping box so that you are not shipping so many smaller packages. If the move is only going to take a few days, I would not even worry about trying to control humidity, although if the cigars were placed in super-large ZipLock type bags, you wouldn't have to worry about them losing much humidity or even worse getting wet in the case of rain/some sort of spill... The only other advice is to make sure you insure them!

Hope this helps.
Bill