Anyone have experience shipping a piece of furniture and can offer some advice/help/give me a direction to head? I built a rather large urn for a client. It's exterior dimensions are 53"L x 23"W x 12"H and weighs in at 50 LBS. It's built in pine. I need to ship it to Rhode Island from the Charlotte (Denver) area.
I just talked to UPS and their prices are so in the air and expensive - at least a $100+ to box and $280+ to ship. They said it could go even higher depending on how their packaging is and so forth.
I found a site called shipnerd that brings the cost done considerably ($200) but you don't know who the shipper is until you purchase the shipping and I still have to box the urn. Finding a box big enough and strong enough is tough. Plus I've never used shipnerd before. I can make my own crate with some 1/4" lauan plywood if need be.
Has anyone had good luck shipping something like this? If so how did you ship your item? Are there places that I'm not even thinking about who can do this? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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I just talked to UPS and their prices are so in the air and expensive - at least a $100+ to box and $280+ to ship. They said it could go even higher depending on how their packaging is and so forth.
I found a site called shipnerd that brings the cost done considerably ($200) but you don't know who the shipper is until you purchase the shipping and I still have to box the urn. Finding a box big enough and strong enough is tough. Plus I've never used shipnerd before. I can make my own crate with some 1/4" lauan plywood if need be.
Has anyone had good luck shipping something like this? If so how did you ship your item? Are there places that I'm not even thinking about who can do this? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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