Shipping Costs Rant

[BFlat]

Example: Light-weight plastic part (single gauge pod) price is $45. Shipping cost is $46. Dang! Will it be delivered by the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders? End of rant.

 

[Chuck Leeper]

Example: Light-weight plastic part (single gauge pod) price is $45. Shipping cost is $46. Dang! Will it be delivered by the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders? End of rant.

Let me guess... Off the bag...
The bag has become so expensive with their add-on bullshit frt, value add, etc, that many have quit selling there.
For shits/giggles: When you get the pkge, go to www.pirateship.com and run the size and wt on their calculator.
I got screwed with a $44 charge. I have Pirate ship, so I did it. Just over $14, had I just sent it back as received. The box was what he received the parts in. All he did was put a label on and UPS picked it up.
The vendor got put on blast and removed from my go to list. He could have cared less by his sarcastic/bullshit reply.

 

[Pronto]

We use Pirate ship for all our mailed packages. They beat UPS by almost half on a small 1lb package. Works!

 

[BFlat]

Checked out Pirate Ship. What I read applies to shipping. Can you also use it when ordering merchandise?

 

[Pronto]

Unfortunately no, it's for shippers. Many places seem to use "shipping" as a backdoor premium on their items.

 

[mikes86ttop]

Checked out Pirate Ship. What I read applies to shipping. Can you also use it when ordering merchandise?

If you can send the seller your label then yes... Say I buy something from you here, you give me dimensions and I'll make label, send it to you, and you print it...

 

[TType85]

We use Pirate ship for all our mailed packages. They beat UPS by almost half on a small 1lb package. Works!

Sent out a fuel pump and with the pirateship rates it was actually 50 cents cheaper to send via UPS 2nd day air than UPS ground; also about 1/2 the price the UPS store charges.

 

[Chuck Leeper]

I see that the USPS is changing over to UPS from FedEx.
FedEx is the worst, DEI infested bunch of idiots in the frt business.
USPS is not much better.

 

[Chuck Leeper]

also about 1/2 the price the UPS store charges.

My ONE time with these clowns...
Asked them for a sturdy box to ship an alum bellhsg in.
"Sure, we can do that". I took it in, they measured it and quoted $33!
That's just the box. Packing material, shipping is on top of that.
They get my Pirate Ship pkges!

 

[mikes86ttop]

All I use is pirate ship now...

 

[mblum]

The UPS store is a joke. It's not affiliated directly with UPS at all, they are a privately owned/run franchise location that uses the UPS name to bring in customers, and yes they do ship solely with UPS, but they are not UPS employees.

If there are any issues with something that went through a UPS store, UPS itself will be quick to point out that those are NOT UPS Employees.

Maybe most already know this, if not be forewarned.