I have never shipped a monitor before...help!!!

[MaximRecoil]

Packing peanuts work fine for smaller, lighter fragile items but your laws of physics aren't gonna work with monitors. Peanuts don't fill the voids enough to keep it from shifting around

Packing peanut fill voids when compressed, and if there is a thick enough layer of them ... well, I'll just repeat what I already typed:

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.

Keeping the monitor from any shifting at all is not necessarily the ideal goal. Anything rigid enough to prevent any shifting is also rigid enough to transmit shock directly through the box (such as if the box is dropped or set down forcefully). Packing peanuts won't hold a monitor in complete stasis, but what little movement they do allow is highly cushioned, and shock to the box will not be transmitted to the monitor (up to a certain point). If the box is being handled roughly enough that it will "bottom out" through a thick layer of packing peanuts, then it is in trouble regardless of what packing method you used.

and on top of that, they're a pain in in the ass to pick out of monitor chassis.

Put the monitor in a plastic bag first.

You are asking for a broken neck with peanuts.

Not particularly applicable to a Sanyo; it has a steel neck guard.

 

[gamefixer]

I've shipped lots of monitors. Building a crate is a good method so long as you pay attention to what your doing. Double boxing is a quick and easy way to ship them but you end up paying more because the outside box ends up being pretty big.

FWIW I've never lost a monitor to double boxing. Had one roll down a concrete flight of stairs when the UPS driver dropped the box at the top of the stairs. The outside bow was destroyed but the monitor was fine.

I've got to ship a couple of 24.8" monitors in a few weeks and plan on building crates for them.

 

[chris25810]

Packing peanut fill voids when compressed, and if there is a thick enough layer of them ... well, I'll just repeat what I already typed:

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.

Keeping the monitor from any shifting at all is not necessarily the ideal goal. Anything rigid enough to prevent any shifting is also rigid enough to transmit shock directly through the box (such as if the box is dropped or set down forcefully). Packing peanuts won't hold a monitor in complete stasis, but what little movement they do allow is highly cushioned, and shock to the box will not be transmitted to the monitor (up to a certain point). If the box is being handled roughly enough that it will "bottom out" through a thick layer of packing peanuts, then it is in trouble regardless of what packing method you used.


Put the monitor in a plastic bag first.



Not particularly applicable to a Sanyo; it has a steel neck guard.

The key to a monitor arriving safely ultimately depends on who's handling it through the shipping process. If it's kicked and tossed around, there's not much you really can do other than cross your fingers. This is how i pack all my monitors in a double wall box and so far it's served me well, i finish it off with one more piece of styrofoam on top then cut the corners(cuz the box is too tall) and fold it all in. Luck plays a part in here somewhere i'm sure.

 

[MaximRecoil]

The key to a monitor arriving safely ultimately depends on who's handling it through the shipping process. If it's kicked and tossed around, there's not much you really can do other than cross your fingers.

Luck plays a part in here somewhere i'm sure.

Definitely.

 

[gamefixer]

The bottom line is that no matter how well we package these things the shipper can and will tear them up. When I worked for Betson we used to get 8-12 monitors per pallet. I cant even being to tell you how many boxes I've seen with forklift tines ran through them. The shipping company blames the shipper and back and forth it goes.

 

[NERDtendo]

The boxes I got turned out to be crap so I won't be shipping the monitor after all...Thanks for all the tips. I know now what I need to get in order to ship my last one out in the future.

 

[HFK]

I have purchased a monitor from Chris and he definitely knows how to pack them. The box could have taken quite a bit of abuse and been fine.