Packing IMO needs to be done assuming the package will be tossed out sidways of a truck and thus dropping 8 feet to concrete.
If your package cannot survive this.. It ain't packed well enough.
I use dense foam, like used in matresses. A local foam co has scraps i can buy for ten bucks for pile as big as I can haul in my car.
four inches of this on all sides pretty much takes it.
Horror stories of shippers includes one i saw with my own eyes at UPS:
UPS employee is pushing cart through door, well the large package was wider that the door. The guy doing the pushing just kept ramming the package as hard as he could, into the door frame, as if he could just crush the package enough it might fit. (the package could have fit through door if rotated)
I mean this is into the public area of UPS depot.
Soon enough the owner of said package came in and started yelling..
The boxes corners were crushed down five inches all around already.
I just stood there eye wide as this transpired.. amazed at the incedible stupidity of that UPS employee.
If your package cannot survive this.. It ain't packed well enough.
I use dense foam, like used in matresses. A local foam co has scraps i can buy for ten bucks for pile as big as I can haul in my car.
four inches of this on all sides pretty much takes it.
Horror stories of shippers includes one i saw with my own eyes at UPS:
UPS employee is pushing cart through door, well the large package was wider that the door. The guy doing the pushing just kept ramming the package as hard as he could, into the door frame, as if he could just crush the package enough it might fit. (the package could have fit through door if rotated)
I mean this is into the public area of UPS depot.
Soon enough the owner of said package came in and started yelling..
The boxes corners were crushed down five inches all around already.
I just stood there eye wide as this transpired.. amazed at the incedible stupidity of that UPS employee.