I bought some monitor boxes. That's it. I need to ship a 19" Sanyo and I don't want it to arrive broke. What's the best procedure for shipping a monitor???
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Send an e-mail to Scott at Hawkeye Picture Tube, I believe he sells packaging materials to ship tubes and may have something for a complete monitor.
www.hawkeyepicturetube.com
This subject has been beat to death countless times in the past though.
marking a box FRAGILE or THIS SIDE UP is probably more like asking for it than adding any protection.
Never pack ANYTHING such that it's safety depends on it maintaining a particular orientation.
The trick is to pack a box within a box. The inner box should be only slightly larger than the monitor. Wedge it in there good with styrofoam sheets, blocking, appliance edge/corner protectors, or just plain cardboard.
The outer box should be an inch or two larger in each dimension. Styrofoam peanuts and/or sheets should fill the gap between the two.
I always appreciated the idea of a box frame made of cheap wood that you could 'mount' the monitor to, but you'd still need padding and possibly a 2nd box.
DO NOT USE PACKING PEANUTS! You need to make sure the monitor is sufficiently wedged in the box and useless peanuts do not qualify, you don't want the monitor to shift around at all in the box. Whoever is using packing peanuts to ship these things is an absolute moron. I've shipped over 1000 monitors and have lost 3 due to deliberate mishandling. If i would have been stupid enough to use peanuts, many more would have been lost. Use a rigid styrofam on all sides.
I like how you "backed up" your speculation with a crystal ball reading of a hypothetical alternate timeline (i.e. "If i would have been stupid enough to use peanuts, many more would have been lost."), and I question your understanding of the physics of packing peanuts.
Packing peanuts have far more shock absorption capability than rigid styrofoam has, by the way. Set a fragile vase in a box where it is surrounded by 3" of rigid styrofoam, and also set one in a box where it is surrounded by a 3" layer of packing peanuts. Which do you think is more likely to survive a fall from 6' onto a concrete floor?
No packing method that is practical is going to protect a monitor if it is handled roughly, and most methods will protect it if it is handled carefully. I'd be willing to bet that a monitor with a sufficient thickness of packing peanuts surrounding it could survive rougher handling than one with the same thickness of rigid styrofoam surrounding it however. Packing peanuts can't move out of the way or compress enough for protection to be lost if there is enough of them, in a thick enough layer.
My only question is directed at Chris: How do you get such a great deal at $38 shipped a monitor?!?I've seen your Ebay auctions. Nice price!
Because i've shipped more than 1000 monitors so UPS loves me.
DO NOT USE PACKING PEANUTS! You need to make sure the monitor is sufficiently wedged in the box and useless peanuts do not qualify, you don't want the monitor to shift around at all in the box. Whoever is using packing peanuts to ship these things is an absolute moron. I've shipped over 1000 monitors and have lost 3 due to deliberate mishandling. If i would have been stupid enough to use peanuts, many more would have been lost. Use a rigid styrofam on all sides.
You are asking for a broken neck with peanuts.
Because i've shipped more than 1000 monitors so UPS loves me.