24 May
2006
24 May
'06
9:01 p.m.
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 16:12, Richard wrote:
Uhh, if what you're shipping gets wet enough during shipping to turn
cornstarch peanuts into goo, your shipper has other problems... and I'd
say you have just cause for an insurance claim.
[[ I guess it's time for the annual "how to ship things and how to not
ship things" thread... ]]
Pat
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In article <200605241130410812.52012EFF at
10.0.0.252>,
Peanuts work great for things that weigh less than about 10-20lbs. Once
you get much heavier than that, the peanuts end up migrating towards
the "top" of the box, than the item you've packed settles towards the
bottom.
Also, picking up the mess from someone shipping something in packing
peanuts is a pain in the ass.
In my experince, damage most often occurs to an
item
being shipped when the item can move even a small amount in the
container.
While this is true for many things, like most general rules of thumbs
there are exceptions. I was shipped a Heathkit Z89 terminal and it
was securely fastened and didn't move a bit during packing. However,
this just meant that the g-forces were transmitted straight through
to the three plastic mounting posts on the CRT in the enclosure
resulting in them being sheared off due to the g-force shocks. Had
the thing been wrapped in bubble wrap and enclosed in peanuts I doubt
this would have happened because the force wouldn't be spiking
through the enclosure to the heavy CRT tube. Another
disaster are those cornstarch-based peanuts. Fine when
dry, but if they get wet, they turn to a sloppy mess and offer no
protection at all.
I hadn't thought about that, good point.