UPS insurance cost

[Kent K.]

Re: UPS insurance cost

A neighbor had UPS break/bend/spindle/mutilate a new big-screen TV and/or the box four successive times (each was returned at the sender's or UPS's cost due to the damage). I think the sender finally gave up and refunded their money in full.

Hope to see you at Howey-In-The-Hills meet this Saturday, Tom.

Regards, Kent #6201

[Tom S.]

Re: UPS insurance cost

Kent
I plan on being there Saturday. I am taking my 88 for judging.It is a Red roadster with a white top and red interior.This is my first judging so I won't be very far away from the car. I will see you then. Tom

[Donald B.]

Re: UPS insurance cost

I just had some frozen Chicago pizzas delivered by UPS - they were fine - ate one last night!

[Michael H.]

Re: UPS insurance cost

Could ya forward one down here to Florida? Everyone here thinks New York style pizza taste good. They have no idea what their missing. I sure miss Chicago style pizza.

[John H.]

Re: if you have computer you can ship USPS

Clem -

My wife has done that on several occasions to ship items when she was too busy to cart her design stuff to the post office, and it works fine. She uses the stamps.com thing and prints her own postage all the time - quick and easy.

[Jack H.]

Try FedEx too...

You'll find setting up a local account with FedEx (gives you access to BOTH air and ground services) is just as simple as establishing a UPS account. The 'trick' with both is to carefully look at the various account questions when you sign up because, if memory serves, they default to giving you daily pickup service which costs something like $8/week. Not cost effective if you only ship sporadically.

Further, you'll only get 'rack rate' freight costs from UPS while FedEx will grant you something like a 10-15% automatic discount which winds up making the freight differential 20-30% less with FedEx Ground vs. UPS Surface (enjoy the savings). Then, you simply go to the respective web site, fill out the shipment data screen, print the shipping label and drop the package at ANY place that carrier does local pickup from. That includes places like Kinko's, Mail Boxes Etc. as well as handing the package to any route driver.

There are two local pickup points for UPS and FedEx within 3 miles of my house and that's how I ship stuff to eBay customers where the package size/weight silhouette winds up being cheaper than USPS.

On USPS, Stamps.com IS an effective service, but there are two other alternatives direct from the US Post Office. One is their Click-n-ship web site where you can slam out shipments either one at a time or in 'batch' mode with the postage being billed directly to your bank credit/debit card. Unfortunately, USPS limits what services you can use on Click-n-ship to their priority offerings (can't generate parcel post or first class mail shipments).

But, you can download a free program for your computer from the USPS web site that's called 'Shipping Assistant'. This will let you generate labels for ANY of the Post Office's services + give you postage rates for those services for BOTH domestic as well as international shipments. The drawback is you have to manually affix postage to the package and, since 9/11, if the package weighs more than 1-lb, you have to physically hand it to a postal clerk for security reasons.

So, there are a couple more alternatives for your home shipments!