[Milsurplus] Fedex Shipping...

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

Lets face it: all the various shippers do a good job sometimes, and a 
bad job sometimes.

IMHO, the only reason ANY packages get damaged in shipping is due 
to the SHIPPER not packaging them properly. Again, IMHO, if a 
package YOU ship gets damaged, it is YOUR fault for not packing it 
properly.  We have to take as many of the ways a package could get 
damaged in shipping into account when we pack. Imagine that your 
item is going to be used by a couple of 400 lb go-rillas as a toy, and 
pack accordingly.

I use the USPS for most fairly small items weighing up to 50 lubs, and 
FedExGround for larger items and those weighing up to 150 lubs. The 
main reason I use FedEx Ground is because they drive right by our 
home, which is also our place of business, every day, and they pick up 
with no problem.

I don't use Universal Package Smashers much, although I have had 
reasonably good luck with them most of the time. They did damage one 
package, not packed by myself, as did the USPS in the past 5 years or 
so of doing this.

So far: I repeat: SO FAR (keeping my fingers crossed), I haven't had a 
single thing damaged in shipping that I have packed myself, but then 
my kids say that I "over-pack".  My response to them was, "How can 
you possibly "over-pack"?

Ken W7EKB