[Milsurplus] Shipping a BC-375

[Don Merz]

No. Now that the shipping services have gotten serious about oversize charges, shipping large items has become very costly. Typical oversize charges START at $40 and go up from there. And lord help you if you take it to a shipping outlet store like Kinkos or Hometown Mail center. They add 50% to the UPS/FedEx rate card. Add in gas surcharges and residential delivery surcharge and check your wallet--it's now empty.

Shipping a Hammarlund SP-400SX from Pittsburgh to TX cost $113 last month. It now costs more to ship many of these old boatanchors than they are worth. And I don't think that situation will improve no matter what the Fed does or who we elect for President.

73, Don merz, N3RHT


----- Original Message ----
From: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
To: Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 10:20:42 AM
Subject: [Milsurplus] Shipping a BC-375



I've finally dug an extra BC-375 out of "the cave." 
I packaged it to be "UPS-proof," encasing it in heavy cardboard
with foam bumpers and putting that in an extra-thick box about 
three feet tall.  Trouble is:  the shipping weight on the thing
is 93 pounds!  UPS to middling-distance places in the US
is like $120...... whew.  
Is there a better way to ship it without damage, 
or damaging shipping charges??

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