<VV> Shipping costs

[Bob Saunders]

I have used fedex before with great results.

It makes a huge deliverance to open your online account and drive it
to a fed ex drop off point.
Sent some golf clubs a few years ago, it was 60% of the cost to have
them shipped fedex shipping center.

Just priced a FC front seat cross country. Fedex 5 day was 130 to a
residential address. UPS was a few hundred.

Weight wasn't the problem, length was.

bob

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:08 PM,  <Sethracer at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 2/14/2009 10:42:43 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> bryan at skiblack.com writes:
>
> My  suspicion on this particular shipper is they are
> charging a premium  to use Fedex.
>
> --Bryan
>
>
>
> As Silicone Wire Systems, I ship a bunch of packages. If you have a FedEx
> ground account, your actual shipping costs are less then sending via UPS ground.
>  The other benefit (for a low volume shipper) is being able to drop them at
> any  "FedEx Kinkos" -(Changing to "FedEx Office") location. For me, that is
> very  convenient (and they are open 24 hrs/day). For smaller packages, I use US
> Postal  Priority Mail. I use their supplied boxes, pay and print my own labels,
> and I  can drop them off day or night at any Post office. I can even leave
> them  for my postman to pick up! My shipments to my vendors, some of which are
> in  diverse places such as Massachusetts and Oregon (grin), always go FedEx
> ground,  because of size and weight. The last time I shipped anything UPS was
> when  someone pre-paid it as a return. Since I am always building some racecar, I
>  still receive a lot of UPS packages. I suspect that the really large
> shippers,  like Summit Racing, get a real "sweetheart" deal because of their volume.
> Us  little guys will still be "paying the freight".
>
> Seth  Emerson
>
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