Thread Number: 37054
/ Tag: Other Home Products or Autos
Here's how I pack vintage vacuum cleaners for shipping... |
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Post# 395896   7/31/2018 at 22:53 (2,092 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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Post# 395897 , Reply# 1   7/31/2018 at 23:26 (2,092 days old) by completenutt (West Hollywood, California)   |   | |
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Post# 395902 , Reply# 2   8/1/2018 at 00:23 (2,092 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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Post# 395912 , Reply# 3   8/1/2018 at 05:25 (2,092 days old) by JustJunque (Western MA)   |   | |
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Post# 395917 , Reply# 4   8/1/2018 at 09:33 (2,092 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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Post# 395933 , Reply# 5   8/1/2018 at 16:02 (2,092 days old) by JustJunque (Western MA)   |   | |
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Post# 395952 , Reply# 6   8/1/2018 at 21:07 (2,091 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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From Charles, you can bet it will not be damaged! |
Post# 396197 , Reply# 8   8/4/2018 at 15:56 (2,089 days old) by completenutt (West Hollywood, California)   |   | |
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I went onto the UPS website and used their calculating page. I entered the dimensions of the box and it's weight and the to and from address. I think it went over normal parameters of size.. it was about a square meter including padding, which may have taken it into another pricing tier for being oversized. Not sure on that.
I couldn't believe the price either. I don't think it included insurance.
I'll try again and post results.
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Post# 396588 , Reply# 9   8/10/2018 at 21:56 (2,082 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)   |   | |
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I asked this same question recently on the USPS Reddit page if they jacked their rates up, and they just all thought I was crazy and had no idea what I was talking about. I couldn't give proof because it would take several hours to gather all the data. I just forgot about the discussion topic and didn't get any farther than that. I noticed that the shipping quotes are in the $80+ range now for vacuums too.
A lot of the vacuums I bought on eBay, everyone always shipped them upright. They were just normal people selling an old vacuum and not collectors or anything, so they probably didn't know how to remove the handles. I don't think I've ever gotten a vacuum yet that was that well broken-down into all of its individual parts. |
Post# 397592 , Reply# 10   8/31/2018 at 21:00 (2,061 days old) by fantomfan57 (Central Texas)   |   | |
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What you have done was to make a parcel that even the USPS Olympic Kicking and Stomping Team could not defeat. Great job! Thanks for sharing, gives us great pointers if not for ourselves but to encourage Ebay Sellers avoid ruining our vacuums. |
Post# 397601 , Reply# 11   9/1/2018 at 00:35 (2,061 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA)   |   | |
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Post# 399704 , Reply# 12   10/17/2018 at 22:05 (2,014 days old) by KirbyLux52804 (Davenport, Iowa)   |   | |
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I bought a Eureka canister off of eBay, I wish the seller would have packaged it a little better than he did. He used a beat up box, and wadded up newspaper. This is the only part that was damaged.
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