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Originally Posted by Choro&Swing
I had to send a bunch of boxes of paintings north in December. I bought packing boxes at Home Depot, some of them heavy boxes for wardrobes. The woman at The UPS annex said they weren’t heavy enough and showed me that they were maybe rated for 60 lbs, while she said I needed boxes with around a 150 lb rating. Maybe they sold them there. I don’t know. I shipped them elsewhere.
One good place to buy boxes is any U-Haul rental shop.
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Apparently it worked out for you. Paintings are difficult to properly pack, broad and flat.
If, it was fine art, expensive, I doubt the would pay on an insurance claim. If, valuable they should be crated.
Wrapping anything as stated, long ago, I had a summer job packing expensive laboratory glassware. The corrugated cardboard used to make boxes is fairly light easy to cut and great for shock absorption. When, we moved, I would put a second layer cut from another box on the bottom of the box and the top. More fragile stuff, I would also
line the sides of the box.