I had a couple of them shipped to me and they were all damaged. After that I picked them up. Good luck Fred.
Honestly....I would recommend three layers of thick cardboard. Seems like it would be hard to damage a properly packaged one.
I've used carpet padding and even old carpet before. Wrap it up good and then I would find a box at a local body shop and use packing peanuts. The box needs to be bigger that the item 2 inches in all directions. That's just in case if it comes down to an insurance claim. If I sell a core it's just a cardboard wrap maybe some bubble wrap . I mostly ship the larger items through UPS.
The damage in my experience has always occurred at the corners where they get stacked vertically or dropped. Edge gets bent in and chrome cracks.
I have had 2 or 3 damaged. they drop them on the ends and the chrome cracked . As Duane mentioned I pick them up now, I would think a wood outer box may help Good luck Fred!
Fred, if there is too much trouble with it then just let me know and he have to keep looking over here. The one he has is not bent worse than he can drive it until one pops up. I don’t want you to have trouble and spent several hours on it.
You can certainly pull it off, I ship glass stuff around intact. You need a rigid outer container (cardboard that's THICK and then I usually use foam to suspend the object in the middle. Then write "caution glass Handle with CARE" on all six faces of the carton". They have that pre-bagged expanding foam stuff too, that would do the trick... Good luck.
Tri County in Tenn has shipped me several bumpers and all but one arrived in perfect condition. They have a deal wit a recycling place and get the old mattress pads and covers. So first they wrap it in a paper. then several layers of foam rubber / mattress pad. after thats its a double wrap of card board stapled and taped.
I used to wrap the corners with cardboard and then bubble wrap the whole bumper. Never had a problem and kept the dimensions down. It used to be so much easier when DHL was around, they used to be in Office max. I used to ship bumpers for $35.
Hence why DHL isn't in that business anymore. They were so aggressive w/pricing to get into the ground shipping game that it wasn't sustainable. Then they got so much business so fast w/the pricing that the service was awful but they couldn't raise prices w/o losing the business & got themselves into a situation they couldn't get out of. IIRC, they were losing $5-6M/day on the ground shipping business & went back to just doing air where worldwide, they're huge.
I had one shipped YRC freight -- they had the box plastic wrapped to a pallet so it didn't get tossed around. Speaking of wrap, I suggest you buy a cheap roll of kitchen plastic wrap. After you wrap it in carpet padding then wrap the whole thing in plastic wrap. This holds everything in place during shipment.
Body shops order bumpers all the time. If you check with them they might give you the box one came in. I did that when I shipped a core. Then wrap/protect as above.
Just had a rear 70 bumper core shipped by speedy delivery. Door to door shrink wrapped for under $50. Showed up undamaged . They have always been great to deal with. Great customer service over the phone. They cover IL,IA, MN,ND,SD,WI, and parts of MI,MO,NE. I ship a lot of glass parts for antique gas pumps and have always arrived in one piece Hope this helps
Had my 55 Buick rear bumper shipped from Tri State in a large box with mattress padding . arrived perfect !! $100 Bill
From where to where Fred? I am about 4 hours or so from your place and will be driving to Missouri in a few weeks.
