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You used to be able to ship via Amtrak, but they suspended the service. You could basically send up to a 500lbs pallet. You could also ship a bicycle, or a dead
by 0xbadcafebee 2y ago
You used to be able to ship via Amtrak, but they suspended the service. You could basically send up to a 500lbs pallet. You could also ship a bicycle, or a dead body. All three required correct packaging.
A bunch of us used the service to ship cheap PCs and CRT monitors up to New York for HOPE one year. The shipping cost more than the computers, but it wasn't much (a couple hundred bucks). Public Terminal Cluster was a huge success. Afterward we didn't want to ship them back home, so we gave away two pallets worth of old computer gear to whoever passed by on 33rd St. Took about an hour.
- chneu 2y agoGreyhound still kinda does this. I think they're phasing it out, or they already did. Basically if you could put it in a box and it would fit under their bus they would ship it to anywhere on their route.
- notatoad 2y agoi grew up in rural canada and we used this all the time. it didn't even have to be in a box - if you could convince the driver to let you put it on the bus, you could ship it. and as long as it was going to another stop on the same bus route you could load it onto the bus yourself and the person you were shipping it to could take it off the bus, so there was no worrying about how the shippers were going to treat your stuff. it was almost as good a service as having a friend with a truck that was going that way. but sadly, no more greyhound in canada.
- timschmidt 2y agoBuddy bought a new (to him) car door off ebay this way.