UPS and FedEx have both done pickups at my residential address, and also I thought you could create a shipment on ups.com and then drop it off at a UPS store?
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 18:49 Joe Subich, W4TV <li...@subich.com> wrote: > On 2022-04-11 6:29 PM, eda...@aya.yale.edu wrote: > > > > The UPS Store does not charge real UPS rates. They have UPS in their > > name. They use a logo indistinguishable from the UPS logo. Their > > counter clerks wear UPS Brown. There was a standar UPS truck parked > > in front of the shop. There was NOTHING visible to me in the store > > that indicated it wasn't a UPS shop. > > For those reasons as well as that neither FedEx nor UPS will make > a pick-up at a residential address (only if an established commercial > customer issues a pick-up ticket), I have used good old US Postal > Service for all of my shipping for the past 15 years plus. > > USPS on-line rates ("click-n-ship") were regularly better than those > from either UPS or FedEX (corporate on-line), the USPS carrier will > pick up packages (if scheduled on-line the day before) and the nearest > Post Office is closer than either "The UPS Store" or "FedEx Office". > > 73, > > ... Joe, W4TV > > > On 2022-04-11 6:29 PM, eda...@aya.yale.edu wrote: > > I just shipped some of my Elecraft gear to someone who had purchased it > from > > me. The agreement was that I would ship it and they would bear the > shipping > > expense. The buyer was OK with my using UPS. > > > > > > > > So I packed it up and took it to "The UPS Store." There are about 30 of > > them in the Denver metro area and about a dozen in the city itself. > Before > > taking the package there I looked at UPS on-line to see what insurance > would > > cost. The UPS site said $1.05 per hundred dollars in excess of the $100 > > included in the shipping rate. When I arrived at the UPS Store they > charged > > me $4.50 per $100. That difference times the value of what I was > shipping > > came to well over $100. When I questioned it (more accurately, when I > > complained about it) they told me that UPS and The UPS Store are > different > > entities. The latter, they said, is a network of franchises independent > of > > the real UPS that "works with" UPS for retail shipping and receiving. So > > what I had seen on the UPS website was what UPS charges, not the grossly > > inflated premium The UPS Store charges. OK, I asked, how can I ship this > > via UPS itself? The answer was a 90 minute round-trip drive to the > nearest > > real UPS terminal. > > > > > > > > The UPS Store does not charge real UPS rates. They have UPS in their > name. > > They use a logo indistinguishable from the UPS logo. Their counter > clerks > > wear UPS Brown. There was a standar UPS truck parked in front of the > shop. > > There was NOTHING visible to me in the store that indicated it wasn't a > UPS > > shop. Maybe everyone on this reflector already knows about this. Until > > this morning I didn't. > > > > > > > > There's an old maxim that a happy customer tells one other person about > > their experience. An unhappy customer tells ten other people. > > > > > > > > Ted, KN1CBR > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to ju...@juliatuttle.net > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com