cardboard boxes for storing/transporting vinyl

i've found that the standard UPS/fedex/home depot/etc. boxes are a bit too small, strictly 12x12x16, which means the records don't quite fit. i'll see if i can find a 13x13x?? box somewhere. i like the idea of getting smaller boxes and putting them inside larger boxes.

we'll see.. the big problem right now is that i am incredibly poor. so 75-cent boxes from home depot are great, $8 record storage boxes not so much.

Also the full 13" cubes fit under the USPS media mail weight limit!

We mailed 22 boxes of media mail, including books, movies, cds, and records, insured all the record boxes pretty well, and still got out of there under $500 for all the postage. Media mail was originally a weird govt subsidy of the publishing industry the way i hear it, and i couldnt be more thrilled that it's still around...

22 BIG boxes that is.

http://www.uhaul.com/MovingSupplies/Boxes/Standard-sized-moving-boxes/Small-Moving-Box?id=3245

Price: $1.70
Easy-to-lift small moving boxes are ideal for heavy items such as books, tools, CD's or record albums.

i have a bunch of these at the house. records do actually fit

huh. i bought the same-sized boxes at home depot and records would not fit...

i bought 25 of those bags unlimited boxes because i had to go pick up, like, 8000 records in a uhaul truck and i knew it would make my life so easy. and it really did. and now i just empty them and fill them back up and i use them every day. should have done it sooner. 25 of their white boxes costs 120 bucks. just being able to stack 5 boxes of records on top of each other is such a space saver.

― scott seward, Monday, June 6, 2011 9:34 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Question: how high do you guys usually stack these things? I mean the plastic corrugated ones, not the cardboard. I'm loath to put expensive / valuable records on the bottom of a stack of five - is this unreasonable? Does Bags Unlimited have a max weight for on top of these babies, rather than just the max weight you can put inside them?