26 Oct
2011
26 Oct
'11
10:40 p.m.
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Richard wrote:
In article <alpine.DEB.2.00.1110260837270.11983 at
duo>,
Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> writes:
I've shipped a few IMSAIs and Altairs. These things weigh around 45
pounds. My usual thing is to wrap it in enough large pink bubblewrap to
turn it into a marshmellow: about six inches of wrap all around. Put it
in a box with four or so inches of clearance and put blocks of styrofoam
in that clearance. Never had a machine arrive broken from packing. There
was a time though that a monitor was damaged because what looked like
two foot long spikey thing slammed into the top of the box. A friend of
mine lost an Atari Abaq when some doofus drove a forklift through the box.
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will arrive in one piece. It doesn't look
like anyone in the area is
setup for injected foam packing anymore, and I just don't trust the usual
foam + peanuts anymore - too many broken units over the past few years. I
think UPS and FedEx hired the chimps from the old luggage commercials to
throw packages around during loading.
I keep seeing this assertion made, that somehow its all the fault of the
rough handling that shipping companies give to the packages and not the
fault of the way the unit was packed.
I've had many, many heavy terminals and workstations shipped through these
packaging companies to my house. In each and every single case, the ones
that were damaged during shipping were the ones that were poorly packed.
NEVER has an item that had proper packing, even when the box clearly
showed signs of rough treatment, been damaged.
My data says its all in how you pack it, NOT whether or not UPS/FedEx
hires "chimps" to do the transfer of package from distribution center
to truck to delivery location.