Vlg Wellingtn, FL
Quoted from minnesota13:1. Maybe had a blanket on the way to the distribution center, but removed as the blanket belongs to the local truck.
2. Forklift at distribution center then put the forks under the body and move the game to a transfer point for loading.
3. The machine is loaded via forklift and may or may not receive a blanket. Game is packed among other loose items and items on a pallets.
4. The machine is off-loaded at the destination distribution center via forklift and moved to transfer point for local delivery.
5. Machine is loaded on local delivery truck via forklift.
The only times a machine is man-handled is at originating shippers location loading on the truck and final destination delivery.
If you want to keep blankets on the machine, best to buy them and wrap them on the machine yourself -- originating shipper.
This is not true, at least in my area. The guys who pick up my games wrap the game in blankets, then cellophane. Why wrap in cellophane if you just going to the distribution center? This, and I have seen pictures of the game as it arrived and it looked identical to as it left, well wrapped. Its on the seller to ensure things like this don't happen.
Treat the game as if it were being shipped to you, and I second the tipping of $20 or so.
