just won this locomotive on ebay. shipping advice

[ChrisW6ATV]

I shipped my GE "locomotive" TV that already had a small crack in its top, and it arrived fine. Here is what I did:

-Wrap the TV in multiple layers of large bubble wrap, most of a Home Depot $25 roll. It probably had four inches of wrap alone on all surfaces when I was done.
-Cut and combine two large (24x24x20-inch?) boxes from HD into a box maybe 24x24x30 inches.
-Make a bunch of hollow cardboard forms, triangle-shaped on each end, maybe 12 inches long each and 4x4x4 inches on the three sides, and put them in the bottom of the box, followed by the "cocooned" TV, then more hollow forms around it at the top. (The forms are what I could come up with in the HD parking lot at 9 PM on an out-of-town trip, with a bunch of scrap cardboard, and they replace the foam-type forms you would get in the box with a new TV, more or less.)
-Ship the TV (to myself) by Greyhound and NO OTHER method.

Note that I have heard at least once that Greyhound may not officially accept TV sets for shipping anymore, so you may have to say it is something else.