For large classic car parts Greyhound used to be cheap, you'd have to drop off and pick up at a station. I wonder if they still offer parcel service.
Guess you have not been looking but they are selling for insane money right now. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...-99a&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1&_sop=16
I have posted this in other threads--if you have FedEx PACK AND SHIP AND INSURE, there will be no "dispute" over damage. The #1 "justification" for denying a claim is "improper" or "inadequate" packaging. Let them do it all, and you have zero liability from your hands to the recipient. Take pics when you drop it off--I even stay and watch them do the packing, and have NEVER had an "issue".
Cost for them to pack AND ship a pair of Pioneer CS-99a's from NY to LA?
$440!!!
Fedex uses the USPS to deliver, and the USPS is subsidized by "public" tax dollars. Fedex is helping to keep the USPS in business. So yes, it a round about way shippers are getting helped out with shipping. It's a documented fact.I have posted this in other threads--if you have FedEx PACK AND SHIP AND INSURE, there will be no "dispute" over damage. The #1 "justification" for denying a claim is "improper" or "inadequate" packaging. Let them do it all, and you have zero liability from your hands to the recipient. Take pics when you drop it off--I even stay and watch them do the packing, and have NEVER had an "issue".
I have also posted this in another thread. There is no subsidization going on--not from "pubic dollars", anyways. I get my dog food/toys/treats from Chewy. It is always delivered FedEx w/free shipping (each Chewy box weighs 40-50lbs). It always arrives on a Saturday. The large on-line retailers (like Chewy and Amazon, and others) get huge deals from the shipping companies.
They all run trucks and pay drivers on the weekends to drive the routes. Most businesses are closed on the weekend (so volume is down), so they give them "sweet" deals on shipping rates, just to keep the trucks full and the drivers busy, since they are running the routes anyways. I have looked inside the back of the FedEx truck that delivers to me on Saturday, and 90+% of the boxes in there have Chewy or Amazon logos on them. It's a "win-win-win"--the vendor gets a deal on shipping, the employer can "justify" the cost of running the truck and paying the driver, and I get "free" shipping for anything $50 or more. AND, most people are off on the weekend, so they falsely believe it is a "convenience" from the vendor, because whatever they ordered gets there while they are at home--not sitting on the porch in bad weather to get damaged or stolen by the "porch pirates" before they get home from work.
If I tried to ship a 50lb 30" X 24" X 12" box of ANYTHING via FedEx as a personal consumer, it would be $100 EASY--more, if I insured it for any value. That's how "the game" is played. I'll go with it--still cheaper and easier than going to my B&M PetSmart any day of the week to get dog food. It is what it is.
Fedex uses the USPS to deliver, and the USPS is subsidized by "public" tax dollars. Fedex is helping to keep the USPS in business. So yes, it a round about way shippers are getting helped out with shipping. It's a documented fact.
Sorry, I know for a fact shipping is subsidized with tax dollars. It is done indirectly so it does not look like it but it is happening. I've done work for a BIG online (won't mention the name) and we where getting a deal on shipping in the form of tax breaks.....I won't get into details, but the taxpayer is footing a percentage of shipping cost for some parcels And, I am well aware USPS is private but the fed regulates it. Regardless, the fed is propping up the post office weather you believe it or not. I also have a Postmaster in my immediate family. We've discussed subject for years.Wrong, wrong, wrong--on so many levels. The USPS went private in 1971 (trust me, I know a few postal employees). FedEx is FedEx, unless you opt into one of those discounted "bastardized" economy shipping deals. The major carrier takes it 90% of the way and then the USPS delivers it (whenever they feel like it). I had a vendor pull that shit, and told them I hoped that they enjoyed that last dollar that they saved by using that method of shipping, because I would never buy from them again.
Fedex uses the USPS to deliver, and the USPS is subsidized by "public" tax dollars. Fedex is helping to keep the USPS in business. So yes, it a round about way shippers are getting helped out with shipping. It's a documented fact.
I had a guy pay $530 for me to ship klipsch heresy from pittsburgh to texas a few months ago.
Holy crap those things are pricey!!!I actually missed getting the speakers in the top listing by literally 2 minutes at Goodwill. I was depressed for a week.
FedEx only uses USPS to deliver packages if you use the Parcel Select option, which in most cases is more expensive than straight FedEx