Maintaining collection organisation when exporting images.

I've read many times on this forum and elsewhere that photos should be organised into collections and by metadata rather than by putting them into folders and I've started doing this to some extent.
At some point however I have to export photos from Lightroom to deliver them to clients. How do I maintain the organisation afforded by the collections on export?
With folders it's relatively easy, I export photos as jpegs into a copy of the folders they're organised into, usually using LR2/TreeExporter.
That plugin doesn;t work with collections howoever, so what do I do?

johnbeardy wrote:
Folders for storage, keywords and collections for organisation - that's the hard line position
John
But you have to have organised storage, otherwise it's a messy heap of folders/images and it will look like Apple did the organising!
Not to mention I also use Bridge for times where it is better than LR and as collections are not interchangeable between the two apps.....
Besides I will not rely on collections for organising long term until that info is able to be stored independent of catalogues in the XMP file.
I've had to restart catalogues over too many times to solve LR issues or because of corrupted catalogues to trust any info trapped in there.
But organised storage and organised keywords and organised collections is only a good thing. Belts, braces and masking tape!
The big and rarely mentioned problem with keywords and collections is the huge amount of time and effort that is needed to do a thorough job of it.
Organising folders is dead easy in comparison, so is in reality far more likely to be done and therefore be of actual use.
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