I'm primarily leisure travel, so I rarely take ties unless I'm going somewhere where I'll be eating a dinner or something that will require a tie - but when I do go, I just use a tiebox from Hechts - when you buy ties, if it's a "gift tie" (i.e. father's day or something) they have free tie-boxes to package them in that are flat cardboard boxes - if it gets pressured, it's not a big deal b/c the cardboard kepts it straight...and then when i get to the hotel or whereever i'm staying, i unpack & hang up the ties first...