I've packaged some delicate things myself. But I much prefer to take things to The UPS Store. They supply boxes and packaging materials and (so far) they've done a nice job for me at reasonable cost.
UPS will not accept electronic products unless they are in original packaging. They always give me a hard time... up to but not including waterboarding... and often want to rip my nicely packaged boxes open to see what's inside. They've even done with with boxes of course notes... paper and 3-ring binders. The UPS Stores are not owned by UPS. They seem to be franchised. I just hand them the hardware "naked" (the hardware, not in a box... not me!!) and they take it from there. OMU On Mar 29, 1:14 pm, Marcio Teixeira <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to my recent post regarding my old vintage computers, I've had a > couple of them spoken for. Of course, the since this list is global in > scope, none of those requests happen to local, as I had naively hoped they > would be. So, this puts me in the situation of having to ship bulky, heavy > and fragile equipment without the original foam packaging, something I've > never had to do before. So, do any of the group members here have any good > advise on how to do this easily and at a reasonable cost? I do not have any > of my own packing materials, so these would probably need be purchased new. > > Are there any obvious things I should avoid? Packing peanuts are probably > the most widely available, but I would how they would fare with something as > heavy as a computer? Would they shift, causing the computer to sink to the > bottom were it would be vunerable? My research indicates that something like > InstaFoam (http://www.intellipack.com) would be packing nirvana for > something like this, but I have no idea where to get this stuff or how much > it costs. It doesn't appear as if it's something I can obtain for a one-time > home use, anyway. > > My first inclination is to take the equipment to some store like "UPS Store" > or "Mail-boxes Etc" and see what they can do for me. Alhough I'm not sure > they would be much useful beyond giving me strange looks for wanting to ship > such ancient looking computers. > > Any thoughts? > > -- Marcio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
