Re: Shipping methods

Paul,

I have done the following:

We shipped a used 720 from Jersey City, NJ to Salt Lake. It was a pretty beefy 720, the size of a couple of half-height file cabinets. IBM packed, but we shipped it for around $600 (I think it was UPS Freight that did it) . The only damaged sustained was that the IBM CE left the power supplies and cords plugged in the back and they snapped off the power outlets in the power supply. That cost me about $12 in parts to fix.

I have also shipped a 170 and a 270 from a small island in Alaska to Salt Lake City as well. Both were boxed, one poorly, one adequately and both survived the trip just fine. They cost around $100 each to ship but both were sent UPS two day air since that is the only service that takes days rather than months (There is always the barge but then you never really know when they have a full container that will be shipped "outside")

The best news is that a System i is nearly indestructible. If you have the original packing materials, you could send them by rickshaw and they would survive intact.

Pete Helgren


Paul Nelson wrote:

List,

I have a client who need to ship a System i from New York to the Denver
area. If you have shipped one any kind of distance, what carrier did you
use?

Larry Bolhuis uses his big red Dodge pickup truck, but it's winter time now,
and I'm looking for suggestions. I already volunteered to rent an SUV and
haul it myself, but they want to use that as a last resort.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
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