Cheapest way of sending bicycles/frames
Tim Lines
but it seems like their prices have doubled in the last 6 months.
Rabid
"Tim Lines" <line...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Dave Thompson
> but it seems like their prices have doubled in the last 6 months.
>
shipped a complete 59cm bike from Washington State to Chicago, last week,
for $30.20 including $1000.00 insurance.
If it's a frameset only, USPS Priority can surprise you with relatively
cheap prices.
Adam
Sending money to Lance's foundation is the best way to support Lance, not
like he needs any money.
"Rabid" <rga...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Mark Hickey
>Sending USPS is not supporting Lance, it's supporting the government.
>Sending money to Lance's foundation is the best way to support Lance, not
>like he needs any money.
When did the government buy the USPS? News to me!
But I agree sending money to the LA Foundation is a great idea!
Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $695 ti frame
PatBCam
topdog
> Fed Ex ground
FedEx ground is usually the best, especially if you insure it for
anything much. Their base price is pretty close with that of USPS.
However, the difference comes with insurance - FedEx charges $.35 per
hundred, USPS about 3x that. As a result, they usually end up being
the higher of the two.
Please note two things. First, you can get rates online for any of the
carriers.
Second, all the above is accurate as long as you go to the customer
counter, and NOT someplace like MBE. MBE likes to say that it charges
the same rate as the counter, but that's only partially true - their
insurance rate is $1 per hundred while the counter is still at $.35.
(Of course, they ARE pretty helpful overall...)
TomV
> but it seems like their prices have doubled in the last 6 months.
I've sent a ton of bikes and bike racks over the last year, and I
found that FedEx Ground was the best by a long shot. As one of the
other posters point out, you have to go directly to FedEx or UPS to
get good rates. This is where FedEx has a major advantage -- they
have WAY more customer counters than UPS, so its generally easier to
go to FedEx. Secondly, they tend to have slightly larger maximum
dimensions than UPS before hitting you with oversize charges, which is
important on stuff like bikes and frames. Lastly, their rates are
consistently lower than UPS and the delivery times are generally a day
or two faster.
One last suggestion: use the FedEx website to check out charges
before packing -- sometimes you can sharply reduce shipping charges by
making a bok an inch or two smaller, if the original box was
borderline on oversize dimensions.
Neal Anderson
Mike Farkas
local packer/shipper at 1-866-find-NPC. Also, the USPS is a quasi-government
agency. A percentage of the USPS budget comes from the Congress.
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Mike Farkas
"Tim Lines" <line...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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(Pete Cresswell)
> This is where FedEx has a major advantage -- they
>have WAY more customer counters than UPS, so its generally easier to
>go to FedEx.
Next time I'll try FedEx.
Meanwhile, just to inject some hard data, I sent a frame from Philly back to
Ellsworth (somewhere in Cali) via UPS ground - insured for $1,500 - for a total
cost of $28.80. That included a charge of a few bucks for them to pick it up
at my back door.
OTOH, I sent another frame back to Ellsworth a few months earlier and foolishly
did it through one of those "we pack and ship" type frachises. To be fair,
they *did* supply the box and pack it. Also via UPS. Total cost $111.09!!!!.
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PeteCresswell
Cy Galley
split it off. It is also the reason for raising rates frequently.
"Mike Farkas" <mikef...@nethere.net> wrote in message
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Alex Rodriguez
says...
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>
>Sending USPS is not supporting Lance, it's supporting the government.
>Sending money to Lance's foundation is the best way to support Lance, not
>like he needs any money.
Not quite. Sending USPS supports the USPS, not the government.
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Matt O'Toole
"Neal Anderson" <t_de...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I dont believe that Fed Ex ground has any way of tracking
ground shipments.
Yes it does, pretty much the same as any other Fedex
shipment. You can view that info on their website. This
wasn't the case when Ground first started (they actually
bought RPS), but now it's totally integrated into the rest
of the Fedex system.
Let me put in another vote for Fedex Ground. It's the
cheapest I've found so far -- several times I've done coast
to coast with a bunch of extra stuff in the box, for about
$30.
However, some LBS' may ship UPS for you really cheap too.
By using their account you save considerably on the markup
from the pack-n-mail place. The LBS may charge their own
markup, and/or a healthy packing fee, or they may not -- it
pays to check.
For example, a typical southern CA shop might charge full
retail UPS rates plus a $20-40 packing fee, for a total cost
of $80. East Coasters here in Blacksburg charged only $10
to pack and no markup on the shipping, for a total of $40
coast to coast. That's pretty damned good -- not worth
getting a box and packing myself! Ten bucks!
Matt O.