[SML] courier service

[Dale Farmer]

On 12/29/2014 1:06 PM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft wrote:
> I'll be making a shipment to a customer in mid-January and he has some 
> specific shipping requirements. This has to go by ground and not be 
> x-rayed, he says he's gotten other items that lost calibration from 
> x-rays.  As he's paying, I have no problems with this.  It will be a 
> one or two boxes total around 50 pounds max.  Shipment from here in 
> Silicon Valley to Washington, DC.
>
> Any suggestions for a service to use?  He said if someone is driving 
> this way he'll pay a reasonable sum to make it worth their effort.
>
> Even though this is from me, there will be nothing that can explode, 
> no drugs or anything other than electronics.

     Go to your local industrial surplus emporium and buy a hollow heavy 
steel object big enough to contain your thing but not to big to fit on a 
standard pallet.   Put heavy steel object on the pallet.  Insert your 
thing inside the heavy steel object and close it up.    Band the heavy 
steel object to the pallet and liberally wrap it with plastic shipping 
wrap.   Hire any of the long haul truck freight companies to transport 
said pallet to your customer's location.    Call your customer and 
explain how to open up the special x-ray shielding shipping container 
when it arrives.    Bonus points if the heavy steel object looks like it 
was designed by H.R. Gieger or has interesting moving parts.

    --Dale

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