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RE: agreed, they just hope you will go away and forget the $$$. nt

Posted by Zero Cool (P) on June 24, 2008 at 06:00:11

In Reply to: agreed, they just hope you will go away and forget the $$$. nt posted by Duilawyer on June 16, 2008 at 13:22:46:

NEVER use UPS to ship anything! Those monkeys on the docks get paid to load and unload as quickly as possible. they don't give a CRAP! about your package period!

I have shipped 4000+++ packages now with fedex Ground and Number one it is cheaper then UPS and two, packages show up and nice square, clean packages, not round mashed balls!

One key piece of advice a fedex Employee gave me. Fedex (and others) have conveyor belts 12' overhead that run at 35 miles an hour. sometimes packages fall off those belts. Will your package survive should it fall off? if not, then its not packed well enough!

Packing Peanuts should NEVER be used to pack anything more then a pound or two. the crush and then your item gets banged around inside.

I buy 4x8' sheets of 2" thick styrofoam from Home Depot. I modified an old Weller Soldering gun by removing the copper soldering tip and bending a piece of 14ga solid copper wire with 1/2 radius at the end and using that as the tip. cuts through styrofoam like butter! You can custom cut shapes to fit around anything. Put your item in a thick plastic bag to prevent the foam from rubbing on the item and walla you have a custom fit shipper box!

Shipping Truck freight is also a lot less expensive if you know the in's and out's of it. I have shipped large pro studio type tape decks from MN to California for less then $100 each time! The actual truck freight is not expensive. the gotchas are the pick up and delivery on each end which can be 3 times the cost of the freight run by itself. If you call up the trucking company, find out where there warehouse is and drop your item off at there warehouse and have your customer go and pick the item up from the destination warehouse. the shipping cost's are very low!

For example. i shipped a 300# Otari deck to cali. the freight was $68 SIXTY EIGHT BUCKS! thats it. But, if they had to comp and pick up the deck, it would have been $150 on my end and another $150 on the drop off end for a lift gate truck! but because i dropped it off and the client picked it up. it was dirt cheap!

NEVER trust those pack and ship paces to pack ANYTHING. A friend trusted them to pack a vintage set of genuine Rosenthal china. the idiots stacked the plates up and then wrapped them in a little bit of bobble wrap. no insulation between the plates. same thing with the other pieces. it all arrived smashed! and of course they didn't pay for it.

Insurance is NOT insurance with some companies. Fedex calls it "declared value" that is NOT insurance. only a statement of worth thats all. beware. UPS does the same thing.

You can Find a Fedex shipping location at any Kinkos copy center. they merged. you can go to fedex dot com and find a location near you that you probably never even realized was there.

Ebay scam warning with USPS. if you ship USPS. beware. you have no PROOF that the item was delivered and no tracking number. your customer could "claim" they never received the item and then file a paypal claim and paypal will side with them because you have no proof of delivery. happen to me many many times. the more USPS services i added like insurance and proof of delivery, the more USPS "lost".

Many people have reported good luck with DHL. i have not used them so no opinion here.

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