Earlier this year I shipped two dining room chairs which together
were about the size of a piano bench.  The shipper boxed them much
as Craig Smith described but with foam board about 1-inch thick on
all five sides.  The voids were filled with some V-shaped foam.

The chairs were shipped halfway across the country by Greyhound.
Although Greyhound doesn't guarantee a delivery date, they arrived
three days later at the local station.  I was very pleased with
Greyhound's handling of the shipment.

Brian Shaw