Ranting about shipping costs!!!

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rklein383

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Holy crap...shipping has gone through the roof. Just got quotes to ship a fan shroud, six pounds total, 80 plus bucks!!!! What the hell.
 
What carriers and what method (ground vs. Air)? Shipping cost vary wildly across carriers. Some go more by weight and others more by size.
 
Oh jeez, I got tagged for 900$ for fed ex freight. Fender, rad, bumper for valiant. They charged me 150$ for home delivery... but I had to pick it up... Needless to say we are still in negotiations... REFUSED to give me a quote preemptively. I would have driven Buffalo to SC for that. Should have been a red flag. “Don’t worry, we’ll send you an invoice.” But as far as small stuff goes, it probably has something to do with amazon/ebay/etsy/etc getting massive shipping discounts. Gotta make up for it I suppose. The radio was spouting retail stores such as Kohls taking amazon returns. Go online, fill out, go to brick and mortar kohls or whatever, they fill a truck, send back to wherever. Probably all goes on pallets and gets auctioned and written off as loss
 
Just shipped some items last week USPS. I picked up a few extra boxes and was writing the cost on ends when she says, "everything goes up the 20th." No set %, seems each will vary differently.
 
Shipping is stupid expensive. Even the USPS Flat Rate Priority shipping is out of hand. Which reminds me...I need to answer a couple of PMs...
 
I think that with all of the FREE SHIPPING that vendors advertise, the shipping companies are having to increase their rates on others to balance things out....You know, like when the people with jobs spend all day working to support the freeloading losers on government assistance?
Are shipping rates higher in the winter to account for bad weather? Consider that.
I'm sure that they are higher for the bulky items since so many young guys are limp wristed wimps full of Estrogen.....Guys with beards that can't change their own flat tire.
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TheGrateRonzini said:
...The radio was spouting retail stores such as Kohls taking amazon returns....
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True. I sent a wrong seal kit for for a VP steering actuator back to Amazon at Kohls recently. Amazon provided the RMA first. No questions asked at Kohls.
 
New USPS postal rates for their flat rate box's at the end of the month.
$8.30 Small Flat Rate Box
$15.05 Medium Flat Rate Box
$21.10 Large Flat Rate Box

Better plan accordingly.
Already revised my ads that i have on ebay.
 
U guys down there still have way cheaper shipping then we do up here. on the other hand I can ship bigger stuff cheaper to u guys than I can across Canada. Which is total bs. Kim
 
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hemi71x said:
New USPS postal rates for their flat rate box's at the end of the month.
$8.30 Small Flat Rate Box
$15.05 Medium Flat Rate Box
$21.10 Large Flat Rate Box

Better plan accordingly.
Already revised my ads that i have on ebay.
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Dam...
 
Shipping has been stupid expensive and rising for 3-5 years.

Product from a supplier I buy from, 50 pounds 4 years ago, $27, now $65-75. Same size box and weight. Just crazy.

Most of the regulars most use go by dimensional weight. If you have a large box that is light, you get to pay more because that box takes up more space. They Love small boxes that weigh more.
 
just shipped a factory cast 340 intake for 17 bucks 1500 miles. Large flat rate game box, used ebay shipping (they get a discount). I thought that was more than reasonable.
 
318willrun said:
just shipped a factory cast 340 intake for 17 bucks 1500 miles. Large flat rate game box, used ebay shipping (they get a discount). I thought that was more than reasonable.
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A couple of months ago, I shipped a rare OEM handformed sheet metal airbox (fits atop 4 Weber carbs) and 2-piece intake manifold(s) for a mid-'70s Aston Martin from Texas to the Netherlands via USPS and PostNL. Weighed about 30lbs. Cost a small ransom to post there, but was worth it for all concerned.

Only glitch was no one was at home when the postal truck arrived, so rather than contacting the recipient whose phone number and e-mail address were listed on the customs form...... On 2nd delivery attempt (following day), he left it at the local pub down the road which seems to be the custom there. Fortunately, the recipient went down there and collected it within a couple of days and all was well.

Happy Motoring,

Harry
 
I shop the different carriers to see who has the best price, sometimes a smaller carrier is less expensive the big names. It takes a bit more time, but sometimes the time is worth the effort to make the sale.
 
FedEx and UPS raise their rates 5% the first of every year now. In the company I work for we have talked to FedEx reps about rates and told we can, in part, thank Amazon for rate increases. All those boxes of air you get from Amazon? Those empty boxes fill up trucks. They also negotiate rates so they can advertise free shipping. Someone's got to pay for it so that's everyone else who ships. Nothing is free. Someone, somewhere pays.
 
70Duster440 said:
FedEx and UPS raise their rates 5% the first of every year now. In the company I work for we have talked to FedEx reps about rates and told we can, in part, thank Amazon for rate increases. All those boxes of air you get from Amazon? Those empty boxes fill up trucks. They also negotiate rates so they can advertise free shipping. Someone's got to pay for it so that's everyone else who ships. Nothing is free. Someone, somewhere pays.
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Truer words have never been spoken.
For close to a decade my job with the USPS was to "cut" first class presort mail. Cages of mail that came from Mailing Houses that were got a discounted rate for partially "processing" mail. I was supposed to look only at the label on the end of the tray and place the mail according to that. For example, labels that said 850 9 DigBC went in the cage that went to the area of the USPS (the DB section) that only dealt with 9 digit barcoded mail, bypassing the area that sprayed the orange code the (OCR's) on the back of the letter. These mailing houses were getting a 60-75% discount for doing this. Often times I would get visited by the DB boss asking why I sent them a dozen cages of mail that had no barcode. Explained I was just going by what the label said. Got tired of getting bitched at, started looking thru trays themselves. Got back from lunch one day to find 30 cages of mail, all of labeled with the 850 9DigBC labels. Dug thru a few trays, none of it had a 9 digit barcode. Found a driver, hauled it back to the acceptance unit. Got in a very heated discussion. Was like talking to a tree. The unit that was responsible for revenue protection could not care less that this mailer was getting a 70% discount and doing nothing to earn it. Mail ended up running thru the OCR's...with all the rest of the full rate mail.
And the place is crying the blues about $$. Go figure.
 
The shipping is why I sell for pick up only. Over the years I had too many people say I want this or I want that until I tell them what it's gonna cost to ship then they back out. Not worth my time anymore.
 
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