Shipping problem, how would you solve this one?

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I've solved it and shipped it, but would you come up with the same solution as me?

Here's the problem:

You have a front bumper strip to ship to Chico, the strip is inflexible, and cannot be bent without being broken, it is 90 inches long, 4 inches wide, and 6 inches deep at the tips.

You have a box to ship it in, however, the dimensions of the box do not match it at all.
The box is 50 inches by 7 inches by 16 inches.

Clearly the box is too short, and taller than needed.

The tools you have are a box cutter, tape gun with tape, and as much bubble wrap as you want.

How do you ship it so this fragile front bumper strip gets to Chico without being damaged?

My answer in green below:

Wrap it up in lots of bubble wrap and tape the wrap- nothing else needed

Perhaps you could put it in the box at an angle if that will work? It might not.

I have a hard time believing a bumper piece is 90 inches. Not even semi-trucks are that wide. the way I'd do it is to make a triangular, two piece, telescoping tube out of the cardboard, do one layer of bubble wrap, and figure out why, if I am paying extra for over-sized freight, am I dealing with this? What's a few extra bucks for a bigger box gonna set me back?

Win.

I cut the box lengthwise in half, put the two halves together end to end, put the bumper piece in the box, folded the top to form a triangle tube, and taped it together with bubblewrap inside. As far as the length, that was the end length of the box when I was done, about 94 inches. So the bumper piece was only a bit shorter than that. It probably wrapped partially around the car at two bend points.

Wrap it in lots and lots of bubblewrap. Forget about the box.