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Topic: $24 UPS and Fedex Surcharges on packages over 50 lbs |
Keith Bolog
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Posted 31 Dec 2019 6:58 am |
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....the previous threshold was 70 lbs. UPS already started 12.29. Fedex starts Jan 6 2020.
Not sure where this should be posted this seems as good a place as any.
Blame Amazon et al for shipping bottled water.
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Gene Tani
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Eric Philippsen
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Central Florida USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 4:53 am
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I shipped a D10 steel yesterday via a UPS store. Paid them to box it up. 59 lbs. They calculated the charges by inputting all the data in their computer.
Yep, a new surcharge was added.
Dang, it costs a LOT to ship a steel. |
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 5:28 am
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Shipping prices are high period. Even USPS prices are up.
Another way I've been hit is size of box and they will put it in a higher weight pricing. |
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Keith Bolog
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 7:40 am ...
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Shipping has increased dramatically in the last few years on everything, as the big three adopted dimensional/density rates. A big empty box is expensive relative to a very small but dense package. You cant shrink a steel down but on anything small it pays to make the box as small as possible rather than adding filler.
Im not a conspiracy guy, but we are almost certainly subsidizing the big online retailers' deeply discounted rates.
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Damir Besic
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Nashville,TN.
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 8:16 am
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I always have UPS box up guitar I ship, and I insure it on full value... for the last D10’s I shipped I paid around $200.00 each time
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Bob Cox
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Buckeye State
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 9:09 am
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| There are private vans that travel across the country now delivering heavy packages for a much smaller fee |
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Kenneth Kotsay
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Davie/Ft Lauderdale, Florida
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Posted 2 Jan 2020 1:53 pm
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| How about shipping via Grayhound bus? |
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Bill Ferguson
From:
Milton, FL USA
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Posted 3 Jan 2020 7:21 am
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"Im not a conspiracy guy, but we are almost certainly subsidizing the big online retailers' deeply discounted rates."
Keith, I think you are exactly right.
Heck, when I place an order with Amazon, Walmart and etc, if it is several items, they all come in separate shipments and shipping is free.
I even order 3 sets of regular guitar strings for $11 and the shipping was free and they came Priority Mail.
Yep, it kind of like buying Chinese products. We are to blame. We wanted cheap, we got cheap (JUNK). So for quality, you now pay double or more.
Same with shipping. It is frustrating when I sell something such as a couple of plugs and a few strings and the cheapest I can ship is $8.
Sometimes, shipping is more than the product.
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K Maul
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Posted 3 Jan 2020 7:27 am
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| Bob Cox wrote: |
| There are private vans that travel across the country now delivering heavy packages for a much smaller fee |
PLEASE elaborate on this, Bob. This is valuable info.
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Brooks Montgomery
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Idaho, USA
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Posted 3 Jan 2020 8:13 am
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It beats hitchhiking to deliver
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Keith Bolog
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 3 Jan 2020 9:39 pm Local vans
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KM:
I know of a local service called Spee Dee delivery that serves me here in WI they are out of Minnesota and serve only a few midwest states WI IL MN IA, and a cupola more. I shipped a 75# steel for $29 to N Minnesota from So Wisconsin, and its handled like a suitcase no need to box it up, no conveyor drops to my knowledge. At the time Fedex woulda been about $75. That was in the 'good old days'
Now that Amazon dumped FedEx and is using every tom dick and harry's local delivery service, I expect shipping options to increase, but not necessarily the cost. I shoulda bought stock in first-chrysler (Sprinter vans are everywhere).
Greyhound is good not a whole lot cheaper, and you gotta go to a depot near you (not many of those) to pick up.
Get ready to pay waaaay more for the cheap Chinese junk bought direct (or shipped by third party from there). China has a sweetheart deal with USPS via some Federal packet law which I dont understand well. Thats why the shipping is nominal or free, browse ebay and see. I foresee that coming to an end. Better stock up on screwdrivers and brassieres now while its cheap.
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Damir Besic
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Nashville,TN.
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Posted 3 Jan 2020 9:55 pm
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couple years ago I shipped D10 guitar to Sweden USPS for $120 ... until this day , for the love of God, I can not understand how was that possible...
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