UPS Rate Increase is Largest in company's history

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Shawn
Hopefully newegg will switch back to fedex.

why does everyone keep saying this? i thought you could still have it shipped through fedex? its just more expensive.

 

[brikis98]

in my experience, UPS is the worst shipper of the big three (UPS, USPS, Fedex), although i haven't used DHL. they always seem to take the longest, bang up the packages in the process and charge by far the most. they do a decent job w/ smaller packages and seem to serve businesses well, but for a private customer shipping anything bigger than a shoe box, they tend to be terrible.

last week, i sold some RAM and tried shipping it in a small bubble envelope. the weight was well under a pound and the size roughly that of a standard envelope. UPS wanted to charge TEN dollars for ground shipping with tracking. TEN. without tracking, it was $0.85. what a load of BS.

 

[dmcowen674]

Hopefully a new lower cost ground shipping company starts up.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: brikis98
in my experience, UPS is the worst shipper of the big three (UPS, USPS, Fedex), although i haven't used DHL. they always seem to take the longest, bang up the packages in the process and charge by far the most. they do a decent job w/ smaller packages and seem to serve businesses well, but for a private customer shipping anything bigger than a shoe box, they tend to be terrible.

last week, i sold some RAM and tried shipping it in a small bubble envelope. the weight was well under a pound and the size roughly that of a standard envelope. UPS wanted to charge TEN dollars for ground shipping with tracking. TEN. without tracking, it was $0.85. what a load of BS.

Where were you trying to ship this? UPS.com? UPS counter? Or a 3rd party, such as a UPS store or local shipping place? There is no "tracking" fee for UPS. Every parcel is automatically tracked and insured. I would also not recommend shipping anything but books in non-solid containers.

 

[glen]

I use DHL.
I use it a lot.
At least once a week, I have to ship something in State.
In over a year of shipping this way, the package has always arrived the next day, and I always ship ground.

 

[brikis98]

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: brikis98
in my experience, UPS is the worst shipper of the big three (UPS, USPS, Fedex), although i haven't used DHL. they always seem to take the longest, bang up the packages in the process and charge by far the most. they do a decent job w/ smaller packages and seem to serve businesses well, but for a private customer shipping anything bigger than a shoe box, they tend to be terrible.

last week, i sold some RAM and tried shipping it in a small bubble envelope. the weight was well under a pound and the size roughly that of a standard envelope. UPS wanted to charge TEN dollars for ground shipping with tracking. TEN. without tracking, it was $0.85. what a load of BS.

Where were you trying to ship this? UPS.com? UPS counter? Or a 3rd party, such as a UPS store or local shipping place? There is no "tracking" fee for UPS. Every parcel is automatically tracked and insured. I would also not recommend shipping anything but books in non-solid containers.

I ship from the UPS store that's down the street from me (the convenient location is the only reason I used them). the quoted price of ten dollars is for ground shipping with tracking. and yes, i'm aware they track all the parcels, which is why the price was absurd...

 

[SpanishFry]

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos

Originally posted by: lozina
Hopefully they will finally invent that object teleporter device now

they will, but it will only be able to be used for sending cash to freight carriers.

lol

 

[Dritnul]

w00t cheaper Lead shipping!

 

[herbiehancock]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Shawn
Hopefully newegg will switch back to fedex.

why does everyone keep saying this? i thought you could still have it shipped through fedex? its just more expensive.

Because they're obviously too stupid to click on the shipping options arrow and choose FedEx. Or they do it and don't like the higher prices they see....yet cry abut "No FedEx on Newegg", which is patently false.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: brikis98

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: brikis98
in my experience, UPS is the worst shipper of the big three (UPS, USPS, Fedex), although i haven't used DHL. they always seem to take the longest, bang up the packages in the process and charge by far the most. they do a decent job w/ smaller packages and seem to serve businesses well, but for a private customer shipping anything bigger than a shoe box, they tend to be terrible.

last week, i sold some RAM and tried shipping it in a small bubble envelope. the weight was well under a pound and the size roughly that of a standard envelope. UPS wanted to charge TEN dollars for ground shipping with tracking. TEN. without tracking, it was $0.85. what a load of BS.

Where were you trying to ship this? UPS.com? UPS counter? Or a 3rd party, such as a UPS store or local shipping place? There is no "tracking" fee for UPS. Every parcel is automatically tracked and insured. I would also not recommend shipping anything but books in non-solid containers.

I ship from the UPS store that's down the street from me (the convenient location is the only reason I used them). the quoted price of ten dollars is for ground shipping with tracking. and yes, i'm aware they track all the parcels, which is why the price was absurd...

UPS store was previously Mailboxes, Etc. As Mailboxes, they generally had a 100% markup on the UPS price. Now owned by UPS, their markup is more in the region of 40 to 50%.

Also, I mentioned the tracking because you made it sound like it was $0.85 without tracking, via UPS.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo


I thought you were posting that the workers' wage rate had increased, and I was like :thumbsup:

Haha......yeah, right.... This is America. The only places wages are raising is in Asia....and needless to say, that's only because companies can't recruit enough labor...thus they end up overpaying people there.

It'll be interesting to see what happens to the lower-middle class as Bush raises the minimum wage over the next 2 years....hard to say if the raise will go up the line, or inflation will end up screwing the rest of us.

 

[brikis98]

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: brikis98

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: brikis98
in my experience, UPS is the worst shipper of the big three (UPS, USPS, Fedex), although i haven't used DHL. they always seem to take the longest, bang up the packages in the process and charge by far the most. they do a decent job w/ smaller packages and seem to serve businesses well, but for a private customer shipping anything bigger than a shoe box, they tend to be terrible.

last week, i sold some RAM and tried shipping it in a small bubble envelope. the weight was well under a pound and the size roughly that of a standard envelope. UPS wanted to charge TEN dollars for ground shipping with tracking. TEN. without tracking, it was $0.85. what a load of BS.

Where were you trying to ship this? UPS.com? UPS counter? Or a 3rd party, such as a UPS store or local shipping place? There is no "tracking" fee for UPS. Every parcel is automatically tracked and insured. I would also not recommend shipping anything but books in non-solid containers.

I ship from the UPS store that's down the street from me (the convenient location is the only reason I used them). the quoted price of ten dollars is for ground shipping with tracking. and yes, i'm aware they track all the parcels, which is why the price was absurd...

UPS store was previously Mailboxes, Etc. As Mailboxes, they generally had a 100% markup on the UPS price. Now owned by UPS, their markup is more in the region of 40 to 50%.

Also, I mentioned the tracking because you made it sound like it was $0.85 without tracking, via UPS.

All UPS stores were mailboxes, etc?? if that's the case, what a rip.

and yes, it was $.85 to send the package through UPS "without tracking" as the person there told me. i don't know if that also means it was no longer UPS ground but something else, but at any rate, the markup is absurd.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Shawn
Hopefully newegg will switch back to fedex.

Yeah, cause Fedex didn't lose my GF's mom's Christmas package and isn't trying to deny that they lost it (to them, it's just been in Oakland for 3+ weeks).

:roll:

 

[rstrohkirch]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Shawn
Hopefully newegg will switch back to fedex.

Yeah, cause Fedex didn't lose my GF's mom's Christmas package and isn't trying to deny that they lost it (to them, it's just been in Oakland for 3+ weeks).

:roll:

Must be a big place

 

[cubby1223]

Originally posted by: Shawn
Hopefully newegg will switch back to fedex.

How is it possible that people still haven't figured out that you can choose FedEx shipment from Newegg?

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo


I thought you were posting that the workers' wage rate had increased, and I was like :thumbsup:

It will be.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: Shawn
Hopefully newegg will switch back to fedex.

I hope you know, you have a choice between the two shipping companies.

Newegg only changed the shipping default to UPS because FedEx had raised their rates, so they wanted to offer a cheaper alternative in addition to the continued offering of FedEx.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: lozina
Hopefully they will finally invent that object teleporter device now

If they do, i'll teleport myself into fort knox and 'help myself' to a 'few' gold bars

The government will have a transporter transmuter that will wind up helping to convert you into a few gold bars.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: brikis98
last week, i sold some RAM and tried shipping it in a small bubble envelope. the weight was well under a pound and the size roughly that of a standard envelope. UPS wanted to charge TEN dollars for ground shipping with tracking. TEN. without tracking, it was $0.85. what a load of BS.

So ship it by Priority Mail. $4.05 usually gets it there in 2-3 days.



Edit: Damn I hate it when I get distracted and do two posts like this.:|