[Hallicrafters] Re Foam Peanuts

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

If you use foam peanuts to ship any object with any amount of weight, you invite
a disaster. Use your heads here. The foam peanuts shift very easily and anything
with weight, (A SX-28 is HEAVY!), will easily shift among the foam peanuts and
move to one of the six sides of the box. As displacement takes place, the motion
of the object increases as well. Damage is almost certain to result from the
inner box slamming against solid objects contacting the exterior of the outside
box.  

Foam peanuts are alright for something weighing five to ten pounds, if the
object is properly wrapped and those foam peanuts compressed to remove all
possible travel area. 	
	
Mailboxes Etc. pack like idiots most of the time. But when you do not properly
train employees you are paying minimum wage to, what else should one expect? I
received a 55 pound object they packed, guess what they used? Foam peanuts!
Fortunately for me, the shipper did a terrific job of packing the unit inside
the interior box. It survived, but did sustain some internal concussion damage
from simple shock. All because MBE packed the box with foam peanuts and the
object weighed 55 pounds. It shifted. 	
	
So if you are going to ship a candle or a bar of soap, use foam peanuts. If you
are going to ship underwear or plastic silverware, use foam peanuts. If you are
going to ship a radio, or anything else with weight toit, do NOT use foam
peanuts.	
	
Duane W8DBF