[ARC5] How delivery services treat our radio packages

[Gordon White]

      It is often a bit of trouble, but I have found it possible to pack 
stuff so it will survive. I had to ship an antique quick-change race car 
rear axle and built a box for it out of plywood with a frame supporting 
the center section and the axle ends (without hubs) and a lot of 
compressible Styrofoam in strategic places. It survived UPS shipping 
halfway across the U.S.

     I have shipped a number of ARC-5 and associated items as far as 
Australia, always double boxing with styrofoam in between and so far 
have had, at least, no complaints from recipients.

     Worst problem was one overseas shipment that was returned to me 
because some idiot inspector at JFK airport thought a power supply that 
was fairly heavy was a bomb. It took me a year to get the Post Office to 
refund the steep shipping cost. I re-packed it and taped a photograph of 
the contents to the outside and it went through.

  - Gordon Eliot White