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That applies to packing and shipping of antiquities, where the following applies:

We do not personally pack any items for shipment. We use only commercial packaging firms for our packing and shipping, including The UPS Store in various locations across the country. Using our instructions and their experience, they do a professional job, ensuring that our items arrive safely as you will see in the notes people send to us. These commercial packers also provide a second "layer" of insurance covering the packing job. Take a look at the steps in the process as you look over the shoulder of a packager at one of the most experienced clock-packers in the United States.

We do not collect shipping-related expenses in advance. Instead, our packer will call you for a credit card number when the shipment is ready to go, and you pay them directly. Don't forget to discuss insurance. Make sure you have more, not less! All clocks are double-boxed as you can see in the example linked above (unless they are very large and require crating). All packages are shipped via UPS or FedX ground service unless you specify otherwise. Crates travel with various trucking companies.

We work with our packers to try and keep the outer boxes under the UPSFedX "I got you now" oversize constraints. However, when it comes to packing a clock cheaply or safely, our packers will always pick the latter. It's about that simple. A 48" Vienna regulator, for example, will often require an outer box that puts the shipment in the "oversize" category, depending, of course, on the ability to remove the crown and bottom finial(s). Shippers charge dearly for these large boxes as they take up space that could be consumed by other, often heavier cargo. If we can ship your clock to a business address instead of a residence, it can often go FedX ground with a savings in the oversize charges. Please let the packer know if this is an option you'd like to take.

All clock weights are packed, and sometimes even shipped, separately. Where appropriate a movement might be removed from the clock, packed and shipped separately. It's easy to put back in... even for the non-technically inclined (like us)! Equal care in packing and shipping will be given to your new mechanical music device, the larger of which will be crated.

If your item requires crating, we will assist the crater to make shipping arrangements at the best possible price for you. If the item is in Southern CA and we personally pick it up from north of San Diego County (Orange, Riverside, Los Angeles Counties) and deliver it to our crater, there will be a nominal $125 fee to cover the cost of gasoline (not our time). In Southern San Diego County there will be a $60 fee for pickup and delivery to our crater.

The same pickup fee will apply if we must travel (as above) to pick up a smaller clock for specialized packing here in San Diego County at one of our packers. Generally, that is reserved for irreplaceable items that require "foam-in-place" packaging. Our specialty packer is owned by a corrugated box company who can "spit out" custom-sized nested boxes for this process. It costs more, but is a significant precaution to ensure safe arrival of a speical piece. If a clock is within a 20-mile radius of us we'll just go get it without any pickup charge; it's those long hauls that get expensive.

Our local cater, Tri-City Crating, is a known quantity; others we've talked to in Orange and Los Angeles Counties won't insure outbound shipments, which is unacceptable to 99% of our clientele, so we go and pick up the items if they are presently located within a reasonable driving distance. Tri-City Crating has a long track-record with us packing larger clocks with great success and wonderful feedback from our clients, all at very fair prices. Note: we do not receive any remuneration from our crater or any packer with whom we do business. If the clock is located in another part of the country we will help make the packing/shipping arrangements there, too.

Both of the clocks were so skillfully stuffed and crated it would put a mortician to shame.

The inside packaging had 2x4 cross-beams and cushion beds to eliminate damage from jolts, with cushion side-pads; Quite honestly, the trucking company could have dragged the boxes at the end of a rope to New Jersey and the clocks would have been in excellent condition on arrival.

All items are insured, no exceptions. That only makes common sense and guards the sanity of us both!

Our cost for packing, insurance, and shipping is your cost; we make a little profit on each item, none on the shipping-related costs. We look out for your best interests in both selecting items to represent, and in selecting quality packers. Bottom line: you win!