[Elecraft] Shipping high value items by UPS

[Don Wilhelm]

Grant and all,

I use both UPS and USPS for shipping.

With UPS, if you go on-line and fill out the information and print the 
shipping label, you can give it to any UPS driver.  If the value is 
$1000 or more, the driver will have to sign your receipt.
Less than $1000, you can drop it off at any shipping center.
Yes, the UPS store may want to wrap it for you (and charge for that 
service), but I have never had anyone ask me to do that.
So print your own shipping labels and avoid the hassle - if the declared 
value is $1000 or above, hand it to a UPS driver, or expect to take it 
to a UPS distribution center (not a UPS store).

With USPS, I have insured items for most any amount up to the maximum of 
$5000 with no questions other than those normally asked about hazardous 
contents, etc.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 9/25/2018 3:52 PM, Grant Youngman wrote:
> I don’t know what the other guys do.  But this has apparently been a UPS policy since February for packages  delivered to the Service Center.  Didn’t know about it of course, and don’t think there was any kind of warning on the website.  Maybe just missed the announcement.   I seem to recall the last time I shipped something insured for near maximum value, that the UPS Store could take it and sign for it, but that doesn’t seem to be the case any longer.
> 
> I’m not deriding UPS, just be aware if you ship an item (like a K3) with high-value insurance by UPS,  and have to take it to a Service Center, expect them to ask you (you have to do yourself) to open or unpack the item so they can inspect it and make sure it isn’t ticking :-)