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Shipping A Server
- Thread starter Simian888
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No experience but...
Had a fragile item (550 lbs) delivered with tilt sensors on the box (2 axis) such as in the link below, great idea...the Gorillas can't play with your shiment at all. Delivery was by Fedex ground, not a scratch on the box.
I would specify a particular person must sign for them, not just anyone in the receiving department. If I were packing them, I would get 1" or more thick, dense foam boards from Home Depot or a lumber yards to line the boxes.
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Chernobyl disaster..a must see pictorial
Had a fragile item (550 lbs) delivered with tilt sensors on the box (2 axis) such as in the link below, great idea...the Gorillas can't play with your shiment at all. Delivery was by Fedex ground, not a scratch on the box.
I would specify a particular person must sign for them, not just anyone in the receiving department. If I were packing them, I would get 1" or more thick, dense foam boards from Home Depot or a lumber yards to line the boxes.
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Chernobyl disaster..a must see pictorial
We have shipped a lot of computer equipment from CRTs to lcds, from small servers to larger servers and even plotters and they've always arrived intact. We however shipped on palets that probably end up in containers and travel by sea. Put some solid foam around your equipment. Some companies use the fast expansion foam like the ones you would use around the rough opening for a window and the window itself.
We have had our shipping nightmares with different vendors. UPS destroyed a new PE6850. Fedex Custom Critical dropped a whole rack of PE2850's and another vendor that I can't recall dropped a brand new DMX2000 off of a truck. My recommendation would be to ship when the stars are in alignment, the horoscope has only good news and you have a very good insurance policy.
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