UPS v.s. FedEX v.s. USPS

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konakona

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I am losing my faith in USPS. while they have served me well for well over 200+ transactions i have had on AT FS/T, the recent few trades have almost gone bad cuz of their extraordinarily slow delivery. luckily the contents did not suffer any damage.
 

Maleficus

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DHL(Airborne Express) always gets me my packages before or on time. The packages are in 1 piece too, more than I can say for fedex.
 

ultimatebob

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UPS scares me. They once walked into my house when I wasn't home and left my package sitting on the kitchen table! I've been more dilligent about locking my doors since then.
 

dartworth

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Originally posted by: icejunkie
UPS sucks. it takes them around a year and 4 months to deliver from Cali to NYC...



If you pay for ground shipping...that's what you will get...
 

icejunkie

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Originally posted by: ultimatebob
UPS scares me. They once walked into my house when I wasn't home and left my package sitting on the kitchen table! I've been more dilligent about locking my doors since then.

:Q
 

icejunkie

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Originally posted by: dartworth
Originally posted by: icejunkie
UPS sucks. it takes them around a year and 4 months to deliver from Cali to NYC...



If you pay for ground shipping...that's what you will get...

Wrong. Fedex and USPS do it way faster. And I always ship ground with everything...
 

SofaKing

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Originally posted by: dartworth
Originally posted by: icejunkie
UPS sucks. it takes them around a year and 4 months to deliver from Cali to NYC...



If you pay for ground shipping...that's what you will get...

And when you pay $7.70 (which is not much more, or maybe less than what UPS will charge) for a USPS flat rate priority box, it'll get there in 2-3 days.
 

SofaKing

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Originally posted by: icejunkie
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
UPS scares me. They once walked into my house when I wasn't home and left my package sitting on the kitchen table! I've been more dilligent about locking my doors since then.

:Q

LOL
 

dartworth

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Originally posted by: SofaKing
Originally posted by: dartworth
Originally posted by: icejunkie
UPS sucks. it takes them around a year and 4 months to deliver from Cali to NYC...



If you pay for ground shipping...that's what you will get...

And when you pay $7.70 (which is not much more, or maybe less than what UPS will charge) for a USPS flat rate priority box, it'll get there in 2-3 days.



Yeah the flat rate boxes are good, however they don't hold a lot of items I ship. Once you get over 2-3 pounds, UPS G is cheaper than USPS PM