Grant For us east-coasters, would it be possible to at least offer the option of USPS? It's not a matter of cost as much as speed, at least for me, though it seems like anything I order costs $15 to ship, regardless, and paying for express shipping us a deal-killer. The real killer us that UPS is seven full days from CA to CT. That means if I decide I want or need something on a weekend and order it online, it ships that Monday but I don't even receive it in time for the next weekend, as it arrives the Monday after the Monday it ships. USPS is usually about 3 days coast to coast for reasonable size things. Just a thought. I'd like to buy more from Riv but I'm an instant gratification kind of guy! Pete On Feb 18, 7:00 pm, grant <grant...@gmail.com> wrote: > UPS charges us $8.08 for under-a-pound boxes to major metropolitan > areas in California. If you live in a van down by the river, it costs > (us) more. A typical box weight here is 5 pounds. To the midwest, it > costs (us) about $11. Alaska and Hawaii cost more, for sure. > > I wish we could get around UPS, but the other companies (FedX, USPS) > either charge more or don't have tracking. Plus, the shippers are now > super close buddies with Barry, our UPS guy, and even if FEDX got > cheaper, it would take quite the Venezuelan FedX account manageress to > get Robert and Vaughn to voluntarily, willingly, switch from UPS. It's > not impossible, but unlikely. > > Our flat rate of $8 is below our cost, but in my head I'm still a 13- > year old ordering from L.L. Bean and paying nothing. Still, we may > have to raise rates. The thing of it is, we don't sell anything ending > in a 9, and that's what a dollar increase would be. Another dollar, > and it's into the double-digits, which seems a lot higher. Eight is > magic here, for now. > G
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