Originally Posted by tommymc

I fly with a checked soft S & S case along with a hard Pelican case in the overhead. The empty S & S case can be folded and stuffed into the Pelican at the arrival airport. Then I ship that forward and ride away.. FedEx has been ho problem with labels but UPS once insisted on boxing the Pelican. They claim that labels cab go amiss on plastic surfaces and they don't like handling odd packages. In any case their box charge was less than the charge for "customer provided" packaging. Better check with the shipper.