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Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg
Thanks to the wonderful handling by the post office I just received another generator with a broken pulley. Notice the thick cardboard packing material. The seller used it on three sides, but not on the pulley side of the box. Still any normal handling should never have broken the pulley.
To try to prevent damage, the pulley needs to be wrapped in cardboard or Styrofoam. One of the best ways to protect the goods is to place them in a plastic bag, and make sure the box has two or three layers of corrugated cardboard on all 6 sides, then fill all the voids with spray foam.
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They only way to ship heavy items is by building a wooden box. It doesn't matter who the carrier is: Fed Ex, UPS, or USPS. We've been down this road with all three. Since using wooden boxes we have not had anything broken.