Get more value from your end of your lease equipment.
HP Financial Services recommends the following guidelines for packaging and shipping your returned assets to minimize damage and maximize your resources. Typically, there are two classifications of product return: large bulk and small individual returns.
|

1 - Requirements for large bulk returns
- Large quantities from the same location
- Consolidated on skids for loading on trucks
- Each pallet must be properly labeled
- Boxes are not required
| Item |
Feature |
Instruction |
| Monitors |
14” or 15”
|
- Stacked up to 3 layers, only
- Each monitor individually wrapped in a plastic bag
- Place monitors face down on two layers of bubble wrap to minimize risk of scratching
- Separate items with with a layer of cardboard
- Video Cables and Swivel Bases must be returned with monitors
- Video cable wrapped around base
- Pallet load to be plastic shrink-wrapped and strapped as pictured
- Each pallet labeled with HP Financial Services Return PO# and Lease Schedule - see label template
|
| Monitors |
17” or 21”
|
- Follow instructions listed above for the 14” or 15” monitors, except:
- 17” or 21” monitors stacked up to 2 layers only
|
| Desktops PC's |
NW Equipment (Routers, Hubs)
|
- Stacked up to 5 layers, only
- Cables, keyboards, mouse, etc. packed in separate boxes
- Layers are separated by cardboard and bubble-wrap
- PC units and NW equipment must not overhang the pallet
- Pallet load to be plastic shrink-wrapped
- Each pallet labeled with HP Financial Services Return PO# and Lease Schedule #
|
| Notebook PC's |


|
- Each notebook will be individually packed in a box reasonably fitted to the unit
- Packed boxes stacked up to 5 layers only
- If sent back on a skid, no more then 5 layers high. Layers are separated by cardboard and large bubble-wrap
- If sent back in bags, no more then 6 layers high. Layers are separated by cardboard and large bubble-wrap.
- Pallet load to be shrink-wrapped
- Each pallet labeled with HP Financial Services Return PO# and Lease Schedule #
|
| Laser printers |

|
- Pallet load to be shrink-wrapped
- Each pallet labeled with HP Financial Services Return PO# and Lease Schedule #
- Remove toner from printer
- Each printer individually bubble-wrapped
- Stacked up to 2 layers for smaller printer and 1 high for larger printers
- Units must not overhang the pallet
- Layers are separated by cardboard or bubble-wrap
- Paper trays, etc. should be packed in separate boxes
|
| Servers |

|
- If not on wheels, then should be palleted
- Pallet load to be shrink-wrapped
- Each pallet labeled with HP Financial Services Return PO# and Lease Schedule #
- Do not stack
- Protect each server with bubble-wrap and cardboard
- Cables, etc. packed in separate boxes
- Units must not overhang the pallet
- Rack mounted servers may be removed from the rack, individually bubble-wrapped and then shrink-wrapped together. Or, you may keep the servers in the rack and bind in with shrink-wrap. The entire rack should also be shrink-wrapped.
|
2 - Requirements for small individual returns
- Small quantities from one or many locations
- Packed in individual/single boxes will protective fill material
- Proper label must be on each individual box
- Capable of being transported via courier shipment (e.g.: UPS)
- Styrofoam peanuts are not adequate to provide required fill protection – please use foam inserts
| Item |
Feature |
Instruction |
| Monitors |
14” or 15” |
- 3 inches of foam required on all sides of the monitor, packed in a box
- Sufficient fill to prevent movement in box
- Label box with HP Financial Services Return PO # & Lease Schedule #
|
| Monitors |
17” to 21" |
- Quantities in excess of 4 items must be shipped on a pallet
- 3 inches of foam required on all sides of monitor packed in a box
- Label box with HP Financial Services Return PO# and Lease Schedule #
|
| Desktop PC’s |
NW equipment (routers, hubs) |
- 3 inches of foam required on all sides of monitor packed in a box
- Label box with HP Financial Services Return PO# and Lease Schedule #
|
| Notebook PC’s |
|
- Each piece wrapped in large bubble bubble-wrap
- Each notebook will be individually packed in a box reasonably fit to the unit
- Label box with HP Financial Services Return PO# and Lease Schedule #
|
| Laser printers |
|
- Each printer individually bubble-wrapped in a separate box
- Remove toner from printer
- Pack paper trays, etc. in separate boxes
- Sufficient fill to prevent movement in box
- Label box with HP Financial Services Return PO# and Lease Schedule #
|
|
 |
|