PACKING GUIDELINES
When your needs are best met by having your own personnel packing your cargo or personal goods, please follow these guidelines to ensure your packaging provides durability and protection during shipment.
- Your freight should be on a pallet, skid or other forklift able base
- 70-gauge stretch wrapping should be a minimum of two bands that are secured through the pallet voids and around cartons
- Shippers are responsible for ensuring that the cargo is packed appropriately for carriage to ensure that it can be carried safely with care in handling and to not injure or damage any persons, goods or property
- Each package must be legibly marked, with the name and full address, including zip or postal code of the shipper and consignee
- Briefcases, luggage, garment bags, aluminum bags, plastic bags, computer cartons or similar styles of items whose outer finish may be damaged by adhesive labels, soiling, marking or other types of surface damage that is normal with ordinary care in handling should placed in a protective container for shipment
- Use new boxes with foam pellets, bubble wrap, rolled foam or other interior padding
- Distribute weight evenly on the pallet
- Stacked boxes squarely on pallet corner-to-corner, to maximize compression strength
- Make sure top of pallet is flat to minimize chances of lost or damage cartons
- Stacked cartons on the edge of pallet but do not overhang