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How far is the set from you exactly? If it's less than 500 miles I'd consider driving to get it, done that about three times now.
I will confess to having one of these shipped cross country.
I got a good deal (for the time) on eBay and asked the seller beforehand if she thought she could pack it well enough to avoid damage, she assured me that she could and she did!
It was packed like Ft Knox, big and bulky and it cost something like $100 for the shipping but it arrived intact 2000+ miles later.
UPS Stores are hit or miss, I had a seller take a Raytheon 7" to one of them once to have it packed and shipped since I figured it would be safer, well it arrived with barely any packing material at all inside, maybe an inch between the box and the edge of the set.
It got slammed so hard it cracked one of the cross boards on the bottom and put an outward dimple on the channel knob.
Miraculously the CRT survived but I did notice the gun got knocked a little off center and the raster won't completely reach the left side of the screen.
A freight service like Craters and Freighters is the safest way to ship but it's costly.
They box the set very well, strap it to a pallet and ship it by truck, it doesn't get rolled or dropped unless there's a careless Forklift operator somewhere along the way but the odds are against that happening.
I've used them a few times for very special sets, stuff where I would be heartbroken if it arrived damaged!
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