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Always keep a box of bubble wrap and plastic peanuts.
I'm so cheap in 2014 when I used ebay to pay my bills and put food on the table I took walmart bags and filled them with shredded junk mail. Because no one wants to get a box full of loose shredded paper that get everywhere. So I contained the shredded paper in walmart bags. Forget buying plastic peanuts and bubble wrap. But for a computer I would bust out the bubble wrap.

In 2020 I was briefly an arms dealer during the summer of firey but peaceful riots. I used about 5 years worth of saved plastic peanuts, bubble wrap and bubble wrap envelopes in about 3 months. Saved at least a couple hundred dollars in bubble wrap. I did it for the street cred oh and the money. Mostly the money.

If your package doesn't fit in a first class envelope, flat rate envelope or flat rate box don't use USPS. Use UPS.

Unless it was a ginormous gamer laptop it should have fit in a large low profile flat rate box with around an inch of bubbly wrap around it.