Share Your Shipping Secrets/Tricks Here

When shipping a transmission or other heavy item to a shop for repair or some other kind of work, one of the best money saving things I've found is to ask the receiving shop to email me a shipping label. I let them know that I will happily pay them for the cost.

They get such a better deal on shipping than I do, and I've never had a place tell me no. It usually saves me 40% or more on the shipping cost.