[Elecraft] OT: Package shippers

[Don Wilhelm]

Erik and all,

I believe that amount is $1000 rather than the $100 that you quoted - 
unless the particular packing store you used sets their own rules.
If you shipped at a UPS store, this new rule is unknown to me.

I do have a UPS account (but not regular pickup), and do not have a 
problem with any package where the value is less than $1000.
If it is greater than that value, I can pack it, but I have to hand it 
off to a UPS driver rather than dropping it off at a shipping center. 
The driver is required to sign a form for my records, and he takes 
responsibility for it from that time.

Independent shipping centers that ship UPS are free to set their own 
rules, and yes, if I take a package to one of them for shipment and 
declare $1000 or greater value, they will insist on packaging it.  That 
is fair, because they share in responsibility for that parcel.

You learn those things after you have been shipping frequently for a while.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/26/2017 2:46 PM, Erik Basilier wrote:
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Basilier [mailto:ebasilier at cox.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 11:43 AM
> To: 'Rick Tavan' <rick at tavan.com>
> Subject: RE: [Elecraft] OT: Package shippers
> 
> In the past I have used UPS extensively, but recently they refused to ship
> my expensive tube amplifier, in its original packing materials, unless I
> would pay them to re-pack in their own, new packing materials. I was told
> that their new policy is that, unless the insured value is less than $100,
> the customer must pay for new packing materials, provided and packed by UPS.
> Even before the extra packing expense, their price was much higher than
> FedEx.