[175873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shipping bulk hardware via freight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Wed Nov 5 21:30:00 2014
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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 07:59:52 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Jason <86@tacorp.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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If you are planning to scrap it after retiring it from production, talk to
nsrc @ uoregon, they'll pick it up and ship it to developing countries that
could use it.
On Nov 6, 2014 4:45 AM, "Jason" <86@tacorp.us> wrote:
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> I'm interested in talking with someone who has experience shipping
> hardware that has been pulled from a working environment. The assumption
> is that it would not use a normal carriers such as UPS of Fedex, but via
> private freight.
>
> Assuming that 20 x 1U switches and a handful of 10U chassis's were to be
> shipped, has anyone found a productive way to package them in something
> other than the boxes they come in? Has anyone tried to crate / pallet pack
> them or something more efficient?
>
>
> If so, please contact me offline if you are willing to share your
> experience.
>
>
> Jason
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