shipping for monitors

OK, I have had terminals shipped to me in the past and they were fine, but I experienced a bit of damage when having a Heath Z-19 terminal shipped to me recently. Fortunately it can be repaired, but I think its just that I came out somewhat lucky (even more lucky would for it to not have been damaged at all). If you were to ship a terminal/monitor, what would be your approach? In the case of the Z-19, I think the root cause is that only 1 of the 4 mounting screws for the tube in the case had a support bracket. This is the only mounting post that didn't shear from the rest of the enclosure. The other 3 posts sheared off at their base to the enclosure. Some superglue should be able to reattach the posts to the enclosure so that the whole thing will be "like new". So this might be something specific to this enclosure design. However, I'm currently looking at a Tektronix 4115 that's in Illinois and I'm in Utah. This is an item that would be "key" for my graphics collection (and I've not seen one offered with any great frequency; a local supplier has them but he charges $1200 minimum for these units as costly replacements for mission critical systems). However, I'm really leary of shipping it that far after my experience with the Z-19. Comments? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline"-- code samples, sample chapter, FAQ: <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/> Pilgrimage: Utah's annual demoparty <http://pilgrimage.scene.org>