If you ever need to ship a dash...

[NorthernThrux]

I suggest wrap it in bubble wrap and stuffing it into a Sonotube. The tube comes in 8 ft lengths and costs 10 bucks at Lowe's or Home Depot. Weighs 1 lb per foot and is very solid. 1"x2" wood trips cut in 10" lengths and inserted as a cross in each end keep the rigidity.
If you use the 12" sonotube, you pay extra for "oversize".

World's largest mailing tube.

[mohrgan]

Thanks for the tip! I'll probably be shipping mine off to Autobahn in a few months. I always love to see things used for unintended purposes!

[ESully]

Great idea.

[mrgreenjeans]

another take on this I use for mailing posters home from race events instead of trying to carry them on the plane, is to stop at a local muffler shop on the way back to the hotel. Buy a length of 2 inch exhaust tubing at whatever length you need to match the width of the poster, insert posters, cut off the bottom ends off a couple of 16 or 20 oz. plastic water /soda bottles, cover ends of pipe, tape away with mailing or duct tape and affix a tag or write with a sharpie right on the metal , your shipping address.

The plus side to all of this is after a few seasons of races, you can have enough exhaust tube to weld together and put on your old wood hauler of a pickup if you have one, like I did ! Especially since I routinely snag a few stumps and branches and generally give the undercarriage a good thrash when out chain sawing the fall down out on my hunting ground.

OR stack them on end in a garage corner to use later under a plywood makeshift refrigerator mover , to roll across your garage floor....or anything else you need to move that's heavy or too big for the hand dolly.

The uses are endless and NO MORE crushed posters thanks to UPS, USPS, FED - EX , and a flimsy cardboard mailing tube.