Shipping question?

onebadchad
onebadchad Posts: 364
edited July 2012 in Speakers
I have some very heavy speakers i need to ship from idaho to virginia.. Looking for the best and safest way, any ideas?
Hello Kitty am/fm CD player
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,753
    edited July 2012
    Freight truck, strapped to a pallet. Another option is Freighters and Craters. They will come to your house, pack them and arrange the shipping.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited July 2012
    Yep, What F1 said.
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited July 2012
    All this vintage gear you've accumulated can be expensive to move... I hope you factored that into the equation!
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,121
    edited July 2012
    Do Not Use FedEx . . .Everything that gets delivered, gets DROPPED on my front porch, THUD! FedEx sucks!

    G
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  • PolkieMan
    PolkieMan Posts: 2,446
    edited July 2012
    great to know there is one in Houston Lucky me.
    F1nut wrote: »
    Freight truck, strapped to a pallet. Another option is Freighters and Craters. They will come to your house, pack them and arrange the shipping.
    POLK SDA 2.3 TLS BOUGHT NEW IN 1990, Gimpod/Sonic Caps/Mills RDO-198
    POLK CSI-A6 POLK MONITOR 70'S ONKYO TX NR-808 SONY CDP-333ES
    PIONEER PL-510A SONY BDP S5100
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  • zane77
    zane77 Posts: 1,696
    edited July 2012
    +1 to what F1 said. Of all the speakers that have been shipped to my house the boxes that arrived in the most pristine condition were the ones strapped to a pallet. You should see what the boxes for my A9's look like after UPS had them for a few days
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  • PolkieMan
    PolkieMan Posts: 2,446
    edited July 2012
    I have heard if you insure "Red Label" that they treat your items quite nicely. And I have had the best luck with USPS. Fedex leaves stuff in plain site.

    zane77 wrote: »
    +1 to what F1 said. Of all the speakers that have been shipped to my house the boxes that arrived in the most pristine condition were the ones strapped to a pallet. You should see what the boxes for my A9's look like after UPS had them for a few days
    POLK SDA 2.3 TLS BOUGHT NEW IN 1990, Gimpod/Sonic Caps/Mills RDO-198
    POLK CSI-A6 POLK MONITOR 70'S ONKYO TX NR-808 SONY CDP-333ES
    PIONEER PL-510A SONY BDP S5100
    POLK SDA 1C BOUGHT USED 2011,Gimpod/Sonic Caps/Mills RDO-194
    ONKYO HT RC-360 SONY BDP S590 TECHNICS SL BD-1
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited July 2012
    GlennDog wrote: »
    Do Not Use FedEx . . .Everything that gets delivered, gets DROPPED on my front porch, THUD! FedEx sucks!

    G
    My Tyler Acoustics were shipped from Hawaii to Florida by FedEx with no problem.
    If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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  • bklynNupe
    bklynNupe Posts: 728
    edited July 2012
    fully insured certainly seems to help the safe arrival

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