[Elecraft] OT: What's The Best Way To Shp

[GRANT YOUNGMAN]

This topic comes up frequently — especially on boatanchor lists where a lot of heavy boxes get shipped around frequently.

I’ve had substantially roughed up packages (punctured exterior cardboard, crushed corners, split seams, etc,) arrive by USPS, FedEx and UPS — and consider them all to be equal opportunity offenders.  And exceptions to supposedly guaranteed arrival dates from all of them, too.  But those instances are relatively rare for any of them. In my experience it’s been far more common for actual damage to the shipped item occurring as the result of sloppy,  non-commercial grade, “peanut”-style packing and the frequent use of used packing materials than by the carriers themselves.  They’re all pretty good (or bad) depending on your perspective :-)


> On Apr 26, 2017, at 9:06 AM, Mike Rhodes <w8dn.mike at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've had the best luck and quickest shipping with FedEx. It seems to me that if the UPS site says 5 days for delivery, they will find a way to be sure it takes 5 days, no matter how long it has to sit in a corner.
> 
> Mike / W8DN
> 
> On 4/25/2017 10:15 PM, w7aqk wrote:
>> Every so often someone asks what the best way is to ship equipment.  I question whether UPS is the right answer!
>> 

Grant NQ5T
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