[175898] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shipping bulk hardware via freight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alain Hebert)
Fri Nov 7 07:04:47 2014
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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 07:04:38 -0500
From: Alain Hebert <ahebert@pubnix.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 11/05/14 13:02, Jason wrote:
> 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.
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> 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?
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> If so, please contact me offline if you are willing to share your experience.
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> Jason
Had a bunch (9) Dell C1100 shipped from Cali to Mtl on a 1/4 pallet
thru UPS LTE. Cost barely $900 and 4h of import/export paperwork.
To my surprise it arrived on a wooden pallet, which is fine... but
each servers was just stacked on it, wrap with packing film, and 1
plastic strap and a bit of cardboard on the corners.
I can only praise the driver and the handlers... none where beat up.
TLDR: Shipping on pallet is fine, most carrier (at least the guys i
dealt with) are professional, just do your own packing =D
