re shipping costs in article pd e usenet ins cwru edu kxj po cwru edu kijin jung writes in a previous article tomc arezzo oas olivetti com tom carlino says recently i bought a musical instrument through the internet and had it shipped to me via ups ground the shipping was done through a mail box service mailboxes etc being somewhat surprised at the price i compared prices of shipping this way to shipping directly through ups and this is a summary i am not making any endorsements or condemnations but merely presenting the facts from which you may draw your own conclusions i ve encountered the same thing with mailboxes etc and i suggest anyone to use the original ups service if at all possible shipping to virginia from cleveland was around for pounds and c o d was as opposed to for ups i ll third the opinion about this outfit franchise now when i buy over the net and pick up the shipping costs i ll specify that i only pick up the normal ups charges as if delivered directly to ups as i ve been burned by shipping charges for a pkg i will never use a mailing service unless i don t have the right box and the buyer needs whatever immediately i ll also tell the person if they agreed to pick up shipping what is going on other things to watch out for consider the rates are to higher than ups direct for a non ups truck package they quoted a rate of fed ex economy air was only for the same weight rps a trucking package company in many cities only wanted guess who got it the mailbox operator told me i was not telling the truth about competitors rates said rps was unreliable i ve used them before with no problems etc right a cod check goes to the mailing service our local mailbox then takes its sweet time mailing me the remade check all this for an additional over the ups cod charge what a deal for packages over they charge you about double over what ups charges them for insurance i ve never had a claim but other netters is ralph seguin out there have told horror stories about them all package traces have to be done through mailbox by mailbox our local mailbox operator told me i was lying when i asked him why their rates were stratospheric compared to direct ups does he ever check probably not their ups ground rates come close to fed ex s economy air rate and fed ex will pick up ups will pick up for a charge in most areas dave medin phone w ssd networking h intergraph corp m s gd internet dtmedin catbyte b ingr com huntsville al uucp uunet ingr b catbyte dtmedin everywhere you look at least around my office the opinions expressed here are mine or those of my machine
