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

[Glen Zook]

For some reason, a particular client wanted shipment by Greyhound.  That company has a small terminal about 3-miles from my house and I took the shipment there.  I paid the price.  I also had several items going out by FedEx Ground and while there I had them tell me what the price would have been for the item that I shipped by Greyhound.  The FedEx price was about 75% of what I had paid Greyhound.

The shipment, by Greyhound, was going to a major metropolitan area and not "Podunk".
 
Glen, K9STH 
Website: http://k9sth.net

      From: Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
 To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 10:40 AM
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] UPS Rates Going Up 5%
   
Hi Scott,

There is a bus stop facility 2 miles from my home and a much bigger 
'terminal' about 25 miles away. That is much closer than Timbuktu! Glen 
Zook says he paid more for shipping on the bus than at FedEx. I wonder 
if he took the exact same package to both places. Other people with 
Greyhound experiences? Going to a bus station is not a big deal for me.

The small items I send by first class USPS do not play into this 
discussion. I have offered some larger items with local pickup preferred 
(due to expense of shipping and crude handling by gorillas) but no 
takers. The Wednesday shipping crew takes them away to never-never-land 
for me along with all my other unwanted schtough.

   
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