How do you safely ship a clicky keyboard?

I hate to bump an older thread, but I wanted to let you (and everyone else) know exactly what you have there. IBM clicking keyboards, and almost any brand clicking keyboards, in decent cleaned-up condition fetch $50-$100/ea. Some of the rarer ones are even higher than that.

There are two large forum communities where you can post your wares and completely skip ebay--geekhack.org and deskthority.net. The market for these is also worldwide, so you'll regularly have international buyers on both of these sites.

There are companies that exist that do nothing but buy these keyboards in large lots for refurbishing and resale. You can get well more than scrap prices. Many of them sell on the above websites.

Just wanted to help keep these wonderful keyboards from being destroyed. I have almost 20 of them and got lucky when I bought them almost 20 years ago for 50 cents each. I'm even using one now to make this post. I use them on every computer I own.