[Boatanchors] Shipping: Gotta Vent

Thu Aug 20 09:59:22 EDT 2015

I recently encountered that scenario, again, from a store that the seller 
insisted was the only way he was going to ship me the 40 lb item I wanted. 
He would not pack it or do anything but take it to the packing / shipping 
store and I needed the item so I agreed.
After he delivered item to the store I called to get the charges from the 
store to pay on my credit card as we had agreed.  The packing charge was $19 
which, having done a lot of the packing here, I considered very reasonable. 
Then the UPS charge they laid on me, drum roll, $75 extra!  OUCH!
I asked if I could use my UPS account number for that and they couldn't do 
that but offered if I did the shipping and emailed the label they were happy 
to do it that way.  That $75 UPS charge dropped to $31.
I fully realize the cost of running a business and owning a store but it 
seems to me that they ought to make that overhead by what they actually 
do---packing---and not be allowed to set their own UPS rates.
The item arrived, beautifully packed in a super heavy duty carton, generous 
amounts of good bubble wrap and the good peanuts, not the environmentally 
ones that compress and dissolve in water (avoid those like the plague).  I 
know I recovered $10 in shipping material I can use on one of my shipments.
So, you have to watch it, take the item to the store for full service if you 
must but be prepared to offer your own shipping label after they tell you 
the package stats and cost for packing.
Paul K0UYA

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ed via Boatanchors
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 1:08 AM
To: glennmaillist at bellsouth.net ; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Shipping: Gotta Vent

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!>

Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)

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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