[Elecraft] [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: Shipping via UPS - A Lesson Learned the Hard Way

[Dr. William J. Schmidt]

The secret to this is getting your own UPS account online.  Its FREE.  Then printing out the REAL UPS labels and getting the real UPS PRICE online....(nothing fancy needed except a printer).   THEN dropping your package off at the local UPS STORE.  FREE.   You will also find that UPS will start sending you coupons for 10-20% off shipping.  I found this out using UPS for my businesses. 


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From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Mike Fatchett
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 5:41 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: [Elecraft] Shipping via UPS - A Lesson Learned the Hard Way

They are franchise type stores and the rates are ridiculous.  My son worked at one for about a year.   At least they gave you the honest answer and were able to handle at an actual UPS shipping location.  The shipping rates are higher too.

W0MU

On 4/11/2022 4:29 PM, edauer at aya.yale.edu wrote:
> I just shipped some of my Elecraft gear to someone who had purchased 
> it from me.  The agreement was that I would ship it and they would 
> bear the shipping expense.  The buyer was OK with my using UPS.
>
>   
>
> So I packed it up and took it to "The UPS Store."  There are about 30 
> of them in the Denver metro area and about a dozen in the city itself.  
> Before taking the package there I looked at UPS on-line to see what 
> insurance would cost.  The UPS site said $1.05 per hundred dollars in 
> excess of the $100 included in the shipping rate.  When I arrived at 
> the UPS Store they charged me $4.50 per $100.  That difference times 
> the value of what I was shipping came to well over $100.  When I 
> questioned it (more accurately, when I complained about it) they told 
> me that UPS and The UPS Store are different entities.  The latter, 
> they said, is a network of franchises independent of the real UPS that 
> "works with" UPS for retail shipping and receiving.  So what I had 
> seen on the UPS website was what UPS charges, not the grossly inflated 
> premium The UPS Store charges.  OK, I asked, how can I ship this via 
> UPS itself?  The answer was a 90 minute round-trip drive to the nearest real UPS terminal.
>
>   
>
> The UPS Store does not charge real UPS rates.  They have UPS in their name.
> They use a logo indistinguishable from the UPS logo.  Their counter 
> clerks wear UPS Brown.  There was a standar UPS truck parked in front of the shop.
> There was NOTHING visible to me in the store that indicated it wasn't 
> a UPS shop.  Maybe everyone on this reflector already knows about 
> this.  Until this morning I didn't.
>
>   
>
> There's an old maxim that a happy customer tells one other person 
> about their experience.  An unhappy customer tells ten other people.
>
>   
>
> Ted, KN1CBR
>
>   
>
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