My Fellow Shippers,
(It's an election year.) I didn't live in Hawaii very long before I started gagging when stores were quoting shipping costs for just about everything this side of toilet paper. HEY! This stuff is shipped on multi-container boats, barges and ships. Try shipping containers to Montana or North Dakota - one container at a time.
For smaller stuff; No one can beat our United States Postal Service. Once you get a 62 pound motor shipped for around $50 instead of $175 from UPS (pronounced OOPS in the islands) or FedEx. Then you realized why there is pressure to destroy the USPS.
Yes, I know the intra 48 state shipping rates are competitive.
Remember when we used to be proud of our wonderful postal service?
I travel between Kona and Seattle three times a year. Most trips now include a Flat Rate Box through the USPS for the really dense stuff to keep my bags under 50 pounds. Three days in transit. Three day service from one of them would be 3 times the $18.
Did you know you can go to
www.usps.com and print a shipping label, pay for it with your credit card and let your postal delivery person take it to the Post Office for you?
Did you know there is a discount for this service?
Do you know Priority Mail objects all come with tracking that is usually good and always complimentary?
Did you know that you can get updates to your package tracking via email at no extra charge?
Yes? Then you realized why there is pressure to destroy the USPS.
Remember when we used to be proud of our wonderful postal service? I guess I still am.
Casey