How best to send a macbook pro through the post?

[TheHoffman]

Hi,

Im currently putting my macbook pro up on ebay, I want to be able to send it through the post office but i dont know how i would do it. I only have the laptops box and i know i cant just send that, if i went to the post office to ask do you think they have something to package it up in?
thanks alot!

 

[Eddyisgreat]

UPS/Fedex . Better Tracking. You could let them pack it. If not, I don't know where you could get a box that awkward. You might be able to get one from an Apple store/reseller, since I believe each macbook pro comes in its own brown box w/ machine info on it.

 

[thebeautyisfake]

Hi,

Im currently putting my macbook pro up on ebay, I want to be able to send it through the post office but i dont know how i would do it. I only have the laptops box and i know i cant just send that, if i went to the post office to ask do you think they have something to package it up in?
thanks alot!

Post Offices (decent ones) will have plenty of boxes for you to choose from. My local one down the road has a nice selection of flat pack boxes. Just put the macbook box inside the bigger box, padding it with newspaper or something else.
Also, use a courier to send the package. Interlink Direct (http://www.interlinkdirect.co.uk/) will collect it from your house and get it to your buyer by the next day. I think it's about £13 but if you sign up they send you a £5 discount voucher. I use them for a lot of my bulkier eBay purchases and it's great. It has a tracking feature and stuff.

Don't send ANYTHING of value through Royal Mail/Parcel Force unless you actually want it to get lost/damaged/stolen.

 

[CylonGlitch]

If it is a MacBookAir then just slip in into a manilla envelope and you're good to go... isn't that what the commercial said?

I wouldn't trust the USPS with it, FedEx or UPS only.

 

[TheHoffman]

ahh thank you very much eddy! I did forget about fedex /ups. Will look them up now

Ha! i do wish i had a macbook air Cylon cause i so would do that! ahh well thanks guys will get selling!