need help packaging a machine
#41
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If you have a UPS store near you it will PAY you to have them pack it. They will do a fine job and you will not have any responsibility for anything that happens in shipping. I once got one that had been put in a too large box with about a gallon of Styrofoam peanuts and the machine was broken in several places. Not a good plan.
#43
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Ups store charges 30-40 to package a machine and it would cost 90 to ship ups ground from the east to west coast. They do allow you to take the packaged item to another carrier though. I still think I will just do this myself. The cost is way too high for me.
#44
If you sell a machine on eBay, they have decent discounts on shipping, though I only use FedEx or USPS, as I can't stand UPS.
Last edited by mlmack; 03-21-2014 at 05:29 AM.
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One thing to remember, although you can take it to someone to pack, and they may do a great job and insure it for the value or more, but in our particular case the issue is concern for a machine being damaged "on our watch".
I ship machines cross the US all the time, but like my Civil War era Grover & Baker, I chose to do a 36 hour round trip rather than risk any damage.
I ship machines cross the US all the time, but like my Civil War era Grover & Baker, I chose to do a 36 hour round trip rather than risk any damage.
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