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benpfree1
Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 126
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject: Where to get boxes to ship sails? |
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Hi,
does anyone have any advice on where to get get a box in which to ship a sail? Do people advise packing sails in a box or just putting the address label right on a sail bag and taking it to UPS?
thanks
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3-phase
Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 481
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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www.uline.com take one with like 8"X8" |
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soheilzahedi5
Joined: 05 Apr 2002 Posts: 70
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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It's best to ship them in a box: they can get crushed when they stack other boxes on top of them...
Go to your local windsurf shop if there are any left, and ask them if they have any boxes that their sails shipped in. |
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KanahaKai
Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 8
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: packing |
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On small shipments you can get away without boxing them as long as you wrap them tight enough. Roll it as tight as you possibly can, strap it, sail bag it, put it in some sort of sleeve/large plastic bag, then wrap packing tape around the whole thing, SUPER TIGHT. You'll be amazed how small you can make it. We've never had a problem.
Aloha. |
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isobars
Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20942
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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Any appliance dealer carries sail shipping boxes, if you don't mind Maytag or Whirlpool logos on them. Cut out a big slab of cardboard from a refrigerator box, crease and fold it into five segments, and fold that into a long box. Tip: make the sides uneven so your final box cross-section is a trapezoid instead of a square, so it's uncrushable. I've used the same box now a few times and it's still solid.
There's no way I'm letting carrier gorillas crush my unboxed sail.
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SteveFoy
Joined: 15 Jan 1995 Posts: 27
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't see any suitable boxes at www.uline.com. Plus they have minimum orders of 10-20 boxes. Looks like creating a custom box out of a bigger box is the only option. |
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spyder
Joined: 24 Sep 1996 Posts: 2790 Location: oahu
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject: Re: packing |
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KanahaKai wrote: | On small shipments you can get away without boxing them as long as you wrap them tight enough. Roll it as tight as you possibly can, strap it, sail bag it, put it in some sort of sleeve/large plastic bag, then wrap packing tape around the whole thing, SUPER TIGHT. You'll be amazed how small you can make it. We've never had a problem.
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yes we do this often. we wrap the sail in a layer of large bubble wrap and tape it good. put cardboard on the tips to prevent damage.
then mummy it with packing wrap. the mummy part makes it pretty strong.
we mail it by either usps priority or some carrier like DHL. |
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