[Boatanchors] Shipping: Gotta Vent

[Ed via Boatanchors]

remember  some of the UPS stores  set their own price and are  owned by 
contractors... some can out right rape you.  also  get an  online  UPS  quote  
to use to counter  with  when you  show up...  how  quickly the store 
manager  will   re  sequence..  some shipper forwarding places are truly evil.
 
 
Be educated.... win the  war!
<grin!>
 
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In a message dated 8/19/2015 9:42:23 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
glennmaillist at bellsouth.net writes:

I  recently bought a R-390A.
This was shipped via UPS for $73.27 (about  $1.00/pound), this is the 
total I paid for shipping.
Shipping materials  probably cost next to nothing, except the complete 
roll of packing tape  that was used.
The shipper wrapped the radio in one layer of bubble  wrap.
He place cardboard ion the front and rear.
Then he added at least  two more layers of bubble wrap.
He built a skin tight box with 1/2"  Styrofoam insulation board.
This was placed in a single wall box with  Styrofoam popcorn  between the 
two.
This arrived with the radio in the  same condition it was in when  shipped.

73
Glenn
WB4UIV

>A few years ago I shipped a  75A-3.  I probably spent $60 on packing
>materials.  It was  double boxed and each box lined with styrofoam
>slabs.  I forget  what it cost for FedEx Ground but the whole cost was
>probably way over  $100.  I didn't like it but what would I have spent
>to put it in  my car and drive it 1000 miles.  Still cheaper to box  and
>ship.
>
>Rob
>K5UJ
>
>
>  >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Trying  to ship a lousy 14 pound package from Texas
> > to Virginia via  USPS.  14 lbs.... 18x14x4.
> > Not an ART-13 or an  AR-88.
> > They want almost $50!!
> > Weeping, creeping,  jumping Jehoshaphat!
> >
> > No way UPS.  They recently  put a fork-lift tine through
> > a Harvey Wells transmitter for  me.
> > They made good but I'd rather have had the  transmitter.
> >
> > Better go check Fed-Ex.  Thanks  for the "vent time."
> >
> > Dave AB5S
>  >
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