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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000007.txt from 2007/10

From: "Miriam Williams" <mwquacker@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] How to ship an oboe
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:46:13 -0400

I take mine to the local shipping service (UPS) & they take it from there. I
insure it, of course. They consider the case to be a carton & require the
pkg to be double boxed with adequate packing material surrounding the
oboe/case.

Miriam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sameer Al-Abdullah" <simsim29@-----.com>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:44 AM
Subject: [DR-L] How to ship an oboe

> Hello everyone,
>
> Looks like I need to send my oboe to the Rigoutat factory for
> inspection and maybe some repair. My oboe is a REIC and comes in a
> luxury "student" case that is slightly larger than your regular pro.
> case. So I was wondering if someone can give me some advice on how to
> pack the oboe, with what ( shreds of papers?sponge? Nothing?) so that
> I know my oboe will make it from Kuwait to France in three pieces ;)
> and of course i'll be using either DHL or FedEx or whichever is the
> cheapest.
>
> Thanks
> Sameer Al-Abdullah
>
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