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column SGIA Helps Make Shipping Easier with YRC Designed to provide members with big savings — 70 percent off published rates on inbound and outbound, long or short haul, LTL shipping — SGIA has partnered with YRC shipping to coordinate the efficient movement of freight to over 40,000 direct points. And the benefit doesn’t end there. Take heed of these valuable tips from YRC, to help make your everyday shipping processes a little simpler. Shipping Guide 1 Preparing Your Package Proper packaging protects your shipment during transit. Many claims and damages arise from improper packaging, and packaging errors may eliminate or reduce your carrier's liability. Packaging The packaging you select must be appropriate for your product. Shipping Guide 2 Use cartons, crates, cages or drums for protection. Wrapping ("shrouding") your shipment with blankets or other cushioning material and/or securing it to a pallet is also effective. Shipments can be secured using stretch- or shrink-wrap, banding, spray adhesive, etc. Proper packaging will also help define the "cube" of your shipment, making it easier to load "tight." Stacking a pallet Stack cartons squarely on the skid, with no overhang. Box flaps and corrugations should face up. Make the top surface as flat as possible. Secure cartons to the pallet with banding, stretchwrap or breakaway adhesive. Improper stacking may lead to damage. • Different-size containers may not be uniform enough to have unit strength. • Damage can occur if cartons overhang a pallet because there is no support for the freight in transit. • Damage can occur when a pallet doesn't have a flat top surface. Place single containers on an outside corner or ship them loose. How stacking strength is lost Stacking strength is lost when pallets are improperly loaded: • Pallet overhang loses up to 32 percent of carton strength. • Interlocked pattern loses up to 50 percent of carton strength. • Misalignment loses up to 30 percent of carton strength. Proper Labeling Labeling Label placement Ideally, you should place labels securely on the long and short sides of each piece. DOT hazardous material labels are required when shipping DOT hazardous materials. Unless specifically provided for elsewhere in the NMFC, address markings must be affixed approximately as shown in the following examples. The location shown indicates the Shipping labels must be placed on every piece of your ship- top, side or end. If more than one location is shown, you may ment. The shipper and consignee information must match the choose which one to use. bill of lading information exactly, and your labels must be legible and complete. As you prepare your next shipment, count on SGIA and YRC to make delivering your haul where it needs to go a cinch. Visit SGIA.org, keyword: YRC for details. Visit SGIA at SGIA.org SGIA Journal ■ September/October 2013 | 87 http://www.SGIA.org http://www.SGIA.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of SGIA Journal September/October 2013

How to Sell in a Tough Economy
How One Fine-Art Photographer Created a Four-Story-Tall Print
December 1, 2013 Training Deadline Approaches
Affordable Care Act — What is New and What is Happening
Reducing Inkjet Ink Usage
Want Your Graphics to Look Great and Last? Start with Surface Preparation and Cleaning
2013 Market Trends & Product Specialties Report
Digital Ceramic Printing Continues to Cast a New Business Model for Output Providers
How to Hire and Retain a Sales Champion
Going Grand: Does It Make Sense for Your Business?
Flames Made Easy with Knifeless Tape
The Edge is Near: Innovations in Fabric Finishing
SGIA Expo Sponsors Lead the Industry Charge to Orlando
The Innovation of an Art Form: A History of Screen Printing
In Many Specialty Graphics Shops, Old and New Technologies Sit Side by Side
SGIA Helps Making Shipping Easier with YRC
New Products
Specialty Imaging Shines at the 2013 SGIA Expo

SGIA Journal September/October 2013