<VV> Shipping-NO CORVAIR

[Dave Morris "BigD"]

Let me explain the difference in price:

The UPS store has mailboxes and they pack and ship stuff.  That's all they 
do.  That's the only way they derive their profit.  Profit to rent the 
store, feed their families, etc.  They charge for their service on top of 
the shipping cost they get from UPS.

Your friend has a hardware store and charged you no profit on the shipping 
because he's your friend.  His profits are derived from the sale of 
marked-up hardware.  But I doubt he would charge all his customers $10.02 
and do all their packing and shipping at no profit.

You could have packed the material yourself and dialed 1-800-PICK-UPS and 
they would have come to your house and picked up the package.  Or you could 
go to www.UPS.com and schedule a pickup.

I know it's expensive to use the pack/mail services, because I once wanted 
to ship 200 clocks to my customers.  When I heard the price, I invested in 
NetStamps.com and now I print my own postage on my home printer, pack 
everything myself, and drop it off at the post office.

Dave Morris

At 10:01 PM 12/25/2004, you wrote:
>I had an interesting thing happen while trying to ship  a small package at
>the UPS Store. The package was less than 5 pounds and the  contents were 
>worth
>less than $50.00. I was shipping from Wisc to Seattle and  this was on dec
>20th. After he measured the package and weighed it he told me it  would 
>not get
>there by Christmas and it would cost about $40.00 to ship it.  After 
>thinking a
>minute I said I'll drive it out  cheaper than that myself.  Next stop was a
>Local Hardware store that a friend ran. I asked him to check it  for me 
>and he
>told me he could get it there by the 24th and it would cost me a  total of
>$10.02. They recieved the package VIA UPS on the 24th. Never again will  I 
>go to a
>UPS Store to ship anything. I would like to hear an explanation of the  price
>difference. What a ripoff!!!
>Ron T
>62  140+
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