Patent ID: 8322118

Claim:
A method for shipping an information handling system, comprising: providing a first information handling system; providing a first nestable shipping container, the first nestable shipping container having an open top end and a closed bottom end and being dimensioned and configured to nest with other nestable shipping containers of like dimensions and configuration; providing at least one first shipping bun unit within the first nestable shipping container with a first side of the at least one first shipping bun unit facing upward; providing at least one second shipping bun unit within the first nestable shipping container in a position on top of and in interleaving relationship with the first shipping bun unit, the second shipping bun unit having a first side facing upward; positioning the first information handling system within the first nestable shipping container in a bulk shipping configuration such that the first information handling system is received and at least partially cradled by at least one of the upward facing first side of the at least one second shipping bun unit that is on top of and interleaved with the at least one first shipping unit or the upward facing first side of the at least one first shipping bun unit; then positioning the closed bottom end of a second nestable shipping container of like configuration and dimensions as the first nestable shipping container into the open top end of the first nestable shipping container above the first and second shipping bun units and first information handling system in nested and stacked relationship, the second nestable container containing first and second shipping bun units of like configuration and dimension as the first and second shipping bun units within the first nestable shipping container and also containing a second information handling system that is received and at least partially cradled by at least one of the first and second shipping bun units within the second nestable shipping container; and then bulk shipping the first and second nestable containers together in the nested and stacked relationship from a first physical location to a second physical location.