[ARC5] [Milsurplus] UPS Rates Going Up 5%

[Peter Gottlieb]

Retail shipping rates are insanely high compared to large shipments. This leads me to believe there is a market for warehouse to warehouse shipping where you bring your package to a shipping center (they make retail customers do this now, but there might be fewer of them local to you) and the package is moved to a warehouse within 10 miles of the recipient. If the last few delivery miles are really that insanely expensive then this should work, right?  Or is it that to compete for the big commercial clients the shippers are operating at a loss and making retail customers pay for it?  If so, there is room for a competitor like a package or LTL Uber freight kind of thing. 


Peter

> On Oct 27, 2017, at 9:13 AM, Michael Clarson <wv2zow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yet it is cost effective to ship manhole covers from India to NYC
> (They used to be made in Harrison, NJ) and all the crap I order from
> China ships free.--Mike, WV2ZOW
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 8:27 AM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> It's going to get where we can't trade beyond
>> local anymore.
>> 
>> Dear UPS Customer,
>> 
>> The following changes will take effect on December
>> 24, 2017.
>> The rates for UPSR Ground, UPS Air and
>> International services, as well as UPS Air Freight
>> rates within and between the U.S., Canada and
>> Puerto Rico, will increase an average net 4.9%.
>> The dimensional weight divisor for packages less
>> than or equal to one cubic foot in size (1,728
>> cubic inches) will be 139 for all U.S. domestic
>> services subject to Daily Rates or Alaska and
>> Hawaii Rates.
>> Criteria and pricing for Additional Handling and
>> Large Package surcharges will change.
>> 
>> 73 OM DE Dave AB5S
>> 
>> 
>> 
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