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Packing a sewing machine
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It's never a good sign when a box rattles upon arrival. Upon
opening the box I found the machine with its cast iron handwheel
snapped clean off of the shaft [additional pic here].
No offense intended to the shipper but this is about the worst packing job possible, only one notch better than slapping on a few stamps and dropping the machine in a mailbox naked. This picture really was the sum total of packing used to send a machine cross-country: two large sheets of crumpled craft paper in a single layer cardboard box. Just... wow.