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Offline nsrexler

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Shipping Keyboards
« on: Tue, 02 April 2013, 09:31:09 »
How do you normally package keyboards for shipping? I've got a few keyboards I'm planning to sell in the near future and I no longer have the original boxes.
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Offline badcop

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Re: Shipping Keyboards
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 02 April 2013, 09:37:09 »
USPS board game boxes work for 104 keyboards.  wrap in bubble or foam $16 bucks to ship it if i remember correctly.
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Re: Shipping Keyboards
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 02 April 2013, 10:46:10 »
The USPS has flat rate Priority Mail boxes that are perfect for up to 2 full-size Model Ms. They are called "Game Board" boxes and go for the large flat rate box rate, about $16 including tracking. I had one delivered from Georgia to Alaska in under 48 hours, but don't count on that every time.

These boxes are not available at brick-and-mortar Post Offices, but if you go online to USPS you can order them, free, delivered to your front door in about a week.

Note - they come in boxes of 25, so order quantity = 1 or else you will have half a ton of cardboard to deal with.
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Offline mushupork

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Re: Shipping Keyboards
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 02 April 2013, 11:21:07 »
Yeah - I tried 3 different post offices before I discovered they are not waiting for pickup.
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Offline nsrexler

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Re: Shipping Keyboards
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 02 April 2013, 11:23:27 »
Hm, 25 count seems like a lot... I'm only planning on selling 2 or 3 keyboards, and this is not going to be a recurring thing, so I would end up with a lot of wasted boxes. If I just show up at UPS or FedEx with a keyboard and ask them to package it for me, will they do it? I don't mind paying a little extra if I can avoid dealing with the hassle of getting rid of a bunch of unneeded boxes.
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Re: Shipping Keyboards
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 02 April 2013, 11:37:44 »
Quote from: nsrexler on Tue, 02 April 2013, 11:23:27
Hm, 25 count seems like a lot... I'm only planning on selling 2 or 3 keyboards, and this is not going to be a recurring thing, so I would end up with a lot of wasted boxes. If I just show up at UPS or FedEx with a keyboard and ask them to package it for me, will they do it? I don't mind paying a little extra if I can avoid dealing with the hassle of getting rid of a bunch of unneeded boxes.

First, the boxes come in quite handy (heh heh) so you should keep a few.

Second, you can take the unused ones back to the PO or Mailboxes etc and just leave them in the corner with the other packing supplies - someone else will come by and pick them up.

Funny how people even find problems with free stuff!
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That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
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Re: Shipping Keyboards
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 02 April 2013, 13:17:51 »
Based on this email I just double checked my order ... I wanted 10 boxes but each item on the order is 25 boxes ... so I have 250 boxes on the way to me.  Maybe I will build a fort! (but I will probably just take most back to my local PO)
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Re: Shipping Keyboards
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 02 April 2013, 14:30:17 »
Quote from: mushupork on Tue, 02 April 2013, 13:17:51
Based on this email I just double checked my order ... I wanted 10 boxes but each item on the order is 25 boxes ... so I have 250 boxes on the way to me.  Maybe I will build a fort! (but I will probably just take most back to my local PO)

^I made the same mistake.  I ended up receiving 5 cartons (5 x 25 game board boxes per carton= 125 game board boxes).  The mail lady was pissed at me. XD
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Offline mushupork

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Re: Shipping Keyboards
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 02 April 2013, 14:36:33 »
Yeah - I imagine the mail person will be angry with me too but USPS should consider making it clearer on the website.  Afterall, it is free to me including shipping so the Post Office is eating all the extra cost on this - you'd think they would be extra careful on the website listing.  (not that it was easy to find anyway - terrible design)
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Shipping Keyboards
« Reply #9 on: Tue, 02 April 2013, 14:51:56 »
I keep all my keyboard boxes. Makes them more attractive when I decide to sell them, and easier to ship too
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