27 Oct
2011
27 Oct
'11
5:24 p.m.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, David Riley wrote:
My biggest problem with peanuts has been their
tendency to move about in
the box; perhaps I should wrap a bunch of peanuts around the item so
they don't move quite so much? How do you usually get around the fluid
dynamic problem?
And always cram a lot of peanuts INSIDE the item, particularly monitors,
disk drives, etc.
I've found wadded up newsprint to be a
surprisingly good packing
material (and a great use for old phone books and Digi-Key catalogs
during the summer when I'm not using them to start fires). It doesn't
shift as much as Styrofoam, though I imagine for extremely heavy objects
it would end up compressed too much.
But, always select carefully to make sure that you find newspapers whose
content will be offensive to the recipient. If shipping to Langley, go to
the international newsstand and get a few issues of Pravda. Hor Homeland
Security, get Al jazeara (sp?) materials. And pornography is always
welcom in certain states.