Re: Urgent: Need Shipping Box for Sun 24.1" LCD Display

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:54:50 -0600

I had called Heritage Paper (I couldn't remember the name for them when
I made the original posting) and they weren't able to help. They were
between production runs and it would be several weeks before I could
get a box. There was a chance of getting a box purchased back from one
of their past customers.

When I had finally received word back from Tina about the possibility
of this happening, I had already shipped the display. It arrived at the
remote development site in fine shape, although the box was trashed.
One edge of the box had been totally split open and was close to
leaving a trail of peanuts as the delivery guy wheeled it into the
office. Luckily there was no damage to the display inside the box. It
caused quite a comotion when I unpacked the display since all displays
in the remote office are CRTs and the largest one I saw was a 20".

I've been told we need to get two more workstations for new hires at
our main office. These will be ordered with the same displays, so I'll
be sure to save at least one of these boxes for future shipments.

Thanks again for everyones comments.

Steve

In article <kpaxton.12m7oy@mail.webservertalk.com>, kpaxton
<kpaxton.12m7oy@mail.webservertalk.com> wrote:
>
You can try a company called Heritage Paper (used to be called
> Mark
Container) and ask for Tina @ 925-449-1148, X480, although they
> might
not be able to help you in a very expedient manner. They are
> the
manufacturer for Sun for most of the original cartons and can often
sell
> you replacements.
>
> We ship Sun product every day and Fedex is our preferred shipper. That
said,
> big monitors are easy to damage and freight claims are tough to
collect on.
> Insurance companies don't become wealthy by making it easy
to collect from
> them, you know?
>
> Good luck.
>
> Kevin Paxton
> Preston Technology
> www.prestontechnology.com
> kpaxton@prestontechnology.com
> 877-434-3785
>
>
>
> Steve Waltner wrote:
> > *I'm needing to track down a shipping box for a Sun 24.1" LCD
> Display
> > (X7134A). I recently purchased several of these displays for new
> > workstations and threw out all the boxes once the systems were
> > installed and tested. Then one month later, one of the engineers
> > decides to move to another state, so I need to ship the workstation
> and
> > display to the other office. The shipping department and myself are
> not
> > comfortable shipping a $3,000 LCD display in packing peanuts.
> >
> > Sun doesn't sell replacement boxes for any of their systems and the
> > company they referred me to for replacement packaging doesn't make
> > these boxes/inserts any more. They are waiting to hear back from
> some
> > of their past customers in an effort to buy back some of the old
> boxes.
> >
> > Hopefully someone has a box for one of these displays that they
> could
> > send me. I'l pay for all shipping costs and throw in a nominal
> PayPal
> > payment for the trouble of shipping the box to me instead of
> pitching
> > it in the trash dumpster/recycling bin. Please contact me via e-mail
> if
> > you have one of these boxes, or via the newsgroup (for future
> reference
> > on Google) if you have leads on where I could purchase one of these
> > boxes.
> >
> > Steve
> > *

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