[TheForge] long distance freight

Andrew Vida osan at netlabs.net
Wed Mar 23 18:50:19 EST 2005



Bruce Freeman wrote:
> I can't advise you on most of this, but I DO suggest you think about it
> from the standpoint of the shipper as to what could happen to it.  For
> example, if you put it in a nice, flat, forkliftable crate, they're sure
> to lie it flat and pile tons of other stuff on top of it.  Hence, rig it
> somehow so it "has to" stand vertically.

	This is precisely so.  I meant to say the same but forgot.  As Bruce 
says, if they lay it down, it will almost certainly be used as a 
platform for other items.

	Another thing you could do, sneaky as it may be, is to mark it as 
"Fragile, GLASS" or some such.


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