Cheap Way To Ship Marquees

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I have a good amount of marquees I am considering putting up for sale. My biggest concern is how to package them for shipping as the USPS doesn't have a priority box that they will fit in. Anyone have any nifty tips/tricks on how to box up standard sized marquees that is (A) cheap, (B) relatively quick, and (C) safe for the marquee to ship in.

As it stands, I am thinking about just selling them all as a lot.
 
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Friz,

I know this might sound strange, but when I sold marquees back when I had my arcade business I found the best way to send them was I would wrap them in a light bubble wrap then I would cut the folding flaps off the top of a box and tape them together against the marquee on both sides. Basically creating my own marquee size "box" that was flat and easy and cheap to ship.

Hope that makes sense...

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Thick Plastic can be simply wrapped in paper+cardboard. Maybe with a layer of Bubble Wrap.

Thin plastic should be packaged with a hard peice of cardboard. Or some paper pressboard if you have some on hand.

Glass should be shipped in a box inside of a box.

Also, Do you have any galaga(any number) or galaxian.

I need something for my midway multicade. US players golf (was in there when I bought it) just plain doesn't do it.
 
Frizzle,
This is the right time of year to do it. Ask your post office for a "priority mail wreath box" They should have/be able to get 2 different sizes.
Depending on how many you ship together, this could be an option. Especially if it is a "lot" of them.
 
Hopefully none of them are glass. If you're going to sell do it quick for the X-mas packages start flowing .... just increases the chance for loss and breakage.
 
For plastic, a couple layers of bubble wrap and two layers of cardboard. For glass, the best I've had came in a mirror box from a framing store. It had bubble wrap and styro corner pieces and was in a 3" deep box.

Always mark the outside as "Fragile Glass", even if it is plexi.

ken
 
I have a good amount of marquees I am considering putting up for sale. My biggest concern is how to package them for shipping as the USPS doesn't have a priority box that they will fit in. Anyone have any nifty tips/tricks on how to box up standard sized marquees that is (A) cheap, (B) relatively quick, and (C) safe for the marquee to ship in.

Well the cheapest way to ship them is USPS Media Mail. See this post:
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=97478&highlight=chart

If they are plexi or flimsy (e.g., Marble Madness), i.e., anything but glass, I do it this way for 1-3 marquees and have never had a damage problem (I've sold well over a hundred):

cut 2 pieces of box quality/thickness cardboard each about 1-2" on all sides bigger than the marquee.
wrap the marquee in plain white "butcher" paper
tape the marquee in paper to one of the pieces of cardboard.
tape the other piece of cardboard to the other piece that the marquees were just taped to (obviously covering the other side of the marquees).

I originally got a stack of cardboard and a roll of plain white paper from Uline (cheap and fast delivery). One roll of white paper has lasted me many years and will still last me many years to come. I went though the pack of cardboard (shipping side art really ate up the supply). The cardboard I get free now from my local grocery store. I pick up one or two sheets every time I go shopping. They put a big flat sheet in between the stacks of items on pallets. It's a big grocery store and they are always unloading something.

If they are glass marquees, that's a whole other story. I'd pack them just as above but then put them in another box with bubble wrap.

Giving credit where it's due: I learned this method of packing artwork and marquees from Philepe (sp?) at Arcade Renovations.
 
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