Shipping a monitor via UPS Pack and ship

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Has anybody ever shipped a monitor with UPS and their pack and ship service offered at their stores . I have a 19" to ship and am torn between building a wooden crate or trying this service . I am curious what the average cost is for the packing portion of it . I like the service as if anything goes wrong they will honor the insurance claim as they can't argue poor packaging .
 
Has anybody ever shipped a monitor with UPS and their pack and ship service offered at their stores . I have a 19" to ship and am torn between building a wooden crate or trying this service . I am curious what the average cost is for the packing portion of it . I like the service as if anything goes wrong they will honor the insurance claim as they can't argue poor packaging .

so you are clear. THEY STILL WONT PAY IF THEY PACK IT and it gets broken......been there have the shirt.


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Just so it's clear: the stores are franchise operations. They are separate companies and I'd be willing to bet that if there's a problem that UPS and the store will spend lots of time pointing the finger at each other.

Also, the ethics vary among the stores. I had one local store make me use 2nd day to send something via the receiver's account. At another store I later found out that was completely unnecessary and that I'd been scammed.
 
It sure sounds like i will be building a crate soon . I figured if it was 50 bucks and they would honor the insurance claim if damaged , hey it is a great thing . But it sounds as if i was mistaken .
 
Has anybody ever shipped a monitor with UPS and their pack and ship service offered at their stores . I have a 19" to ship and am torn between building a wooden crate or trying this service . I am curious what the average cost is for the packing portion of it . I like the service as if anything goes wrong they will honor the insurance claim as they can't argue poor packaging .

From what I have seen, they would probably charge you more than the monitor is worth to pack it. Their prices are batshit crazy. Only time I ever use them is when I print the packing label online and just drop it off at a UPS Store.
 
I've also heard continuous horror stories of people sending monitors through UPS. Your monitor stands a very good chance of arriving in many small pieces at the other end.

You listen to what UPS people say a box has to survive in a UPS shipment (being dropped several feet onto the floor) and you'd be nuts to even try, especially during the holiday season.

You're better off with FedEx. I had a new monitor shipped to me via FedEx Freight on a pallet and it was perfect.
 
I've also heard continuous horror stories of people sending monitors through UPS. Your monitor stands a very good chance of arriving in many small pieces at the other end.

You listen to what UPS people say a box has to survive in a UPS shipment (being dropped several feet onto the floor) and you'd be nuts to even try, especially during the holiday season.

You're better off with FedEx. I had a new monitor shipped to me via FedEx Freight on a pallet and it was perfect.

I once did some work in conjunction with HP's medical division. The way they tested their packaging was to put a sample together properly in the box and repeatedly ship it coast to coast. They learned a lot from those tests.
 
Order a monitor box from hawkeye tube in iowa. Use that to ship your tube, they work great. I got my replacement 25" amp tube shipped in one of those.
 
I've also heard continuous horror stories of people sending monitors through UPS. Your monitor stands a very good chance of arriving in many small pieces at the other end.

You listen to what UPS people say a box has to survive in a UPS shipment (being dropped several feet onto the floor) and you'd be nuts to even try, especially during the holiday season.

You're better off with FedEx. I had a new monitor shipped to me via FedEx Freight on a pallet and it was perfect.

Let me confirm that unless you have 4 inches of solid packing material around all sides of your monitor, UPS will fight like hell to deny your claim if it arrives broken. I fought with these guys over a shipment to California that involved two monitors that weighed the same as well as being packed the same and they both arrived to the buyer at the same time. One arrived in a million pieces and the other was perfect but trust me, they tried for nearly two months to not pay the claim due to insufficient packaging which is bullshit because i use more packing material than any factory monitor was ever shipped with. In the end it came down to pure neglegence by UPS and they finally sent me a check.
 
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