[Boatanchors] Shipping: Gotta Vent

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

I recently bought a R-390A.
This was shipped via UPS for $73.27 (about $1.00/pound), this is the 
total I paid for shipping.
Shipping materials probably cost next to nothing, except the complete 
roll of packing tape that was used.
The shipper wrapped the radio in one layer of bubble wrap.
He place cardboard ion the front and rear.
Then he added at least two more layers of bubble wrap.
He built a skin tight box with 1/2" Styrofoam insulation board.
This was placed in a single wall box with Styrofoam popcorn  between the two.
This arrived with the radio in the same condition it was in when shipped.

73
Glenn
WB4UIV

>A few years ago I shipped a 75A-3.  I probably spent $60 on packing
>materials.  It was double boxed and each box lined with styrofoam
>slabs.  I forget what it cost for FedEx Ground but the whole cost was
>probably way over $100.  I didn't like it but what would I have spent
>to put it in my car and drive it 1000 miles.  Still cheaper to box and
>ship.
>
>Rob
>K5UJ
>
>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Trying to ship a lousy 14 pound package from Texas
> > to Virginia via USPS.  14 lbs.... 18x14x4.
> > Not an ART-13 or an AR-88.
> > They want almost $50!!
> > Weeping, creeping, jumping Jehoshaphat!
> >
> > No way UPS.  They recently put a fork-lift tine through
> > a Harvey Wells transmitter for me.
> > They made good but I'd rather have had the transmitter.
> >
> > Better go check Fed-Ex.  Thanks for the "vent time."
> >
> > Dave AB5S
> >
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Glenn Little                ARRL Technical Specialist   QCWA  LM 28417
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