Originally Posted by
mtkeller
+1
I've checked a wine shipping box without problems. I did, however, only put 8 bottles in the box and padded the four corner impact zones with T-shirts. The other four bottles from the case went inside a suitcase, each inside a sock and then wrapped in a shirt and then all of them inside a garbage bag. I think they would have been fine in the wine shipping box, however.
Are you sure you used an actual wine
shipping box? Or was it just a box with cardboard dividers like you find wine in at the grocery store or Costco? Because an actual wine shipping box shouldn't require (or have room for) padding the corners with t-shirts. It will have molded styrofoam or molded heavy cardboard inserts that fit the interior of the box exactly, and have pre-formed spaces within for each bottle.