shipping costs

I’m shipping a guitar (in a box) across country, Fedex or UPS, which is cheaper?

Usually UPS if you’re shipping to a business.

Do you know the weight of you package? IF you do, go online to both http://www.ups.com and http://www.fedex.com and get a price quote. All you need to do is know the weight and dimensions and the destination address and you’ll get your prices.

I ship a lot of string instruments monthly. Mostly violins, and I use UPS. If you are trying to overnight them both will cost an arm and a leg.

FDR

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Usually UPS if you’re shipping to a business.

Do you know the weight of you package? IF you do, go online to both http://www.ups.com and http://www.fedex.com and get a price quote. All you need to do is know the weight and dimensions and the destination address and you’ll get your prices.

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I am guessing a guitar will be shipped using it’s dimensions to figure cost.

FDR

Use UPS as for Fed Ex I have had poor luck with computers.

Fed-Ex likes to damage stuff.

If I have an option as who is the shipper it is UPS hands down.

We have used UPS through work, however have recently switched shippers for most of our packages bacause we have had ups steal computers and replace them with pillows. On top of that, it is almost impossible to get them to pay up on the insurance you put on the package. On top of that, our driver was busted kicking 1000 dollar printers out the back door of his truck. We use speedee delivery as much as possible because of the cost…..won’t work in your case because of the destination.

Name that comic! (hint, he’s coming to Rochester April 25!)

We just moved, I called UPS to ask them to help out with some boxes, you know, their a good service, but you have to have some information ready about your boxes before you even call them…..I had know idea….

I called them up, “Ya, I have ten boxes; can you come pick them up?”

“We need to know the weight and the girth.”

“Okay…..good-bye.”

So I called back.

“We need the weight and the girth.”

“Okay…..I don’t know what the weight is, and um, I don’t know what girth means…..So now what’s the procedure?”

So this guy talks to me like I’m four years old.

“Well do you have a bathroom scale?”

“Uh, ya but if I put the box on the scale it’s gonna cover up the NUMBERS!”

What, do I take it off really quick? Ah…..zero: I’m not fast enough. What’s he talking about man? So then he gives me his Mister Wizard Formula,

“How about if you stand on the scale and weigh yourself and get off the scale. Pick up the box, get back on, weigh you and the box together, and subtract your own weight.”

I’m going, “Slow down……Hold on professor.”……

but I know this guys never tried this, because I tried it……and you still can’t see the NUMBERS! What am I, Mr. Olympia?”

Then I had to hang up in the middle of his girth formula. he kept assuring me it was easy.

“The girth is really very simple to figure out, you take the length and you double that by the smaller of the height after you triangulate the hypotenuse by the length of the third side….”

“OK I gotta go, I’m getting another call”

Ya I’m to stupid to talk to you. I just want to not be on with you any longer.
So I figured I would call back and just make up some numbers…..you know let him come out and pick them up….if it was wrong I’d pay the difference. Just dispatch the truck. Please. So I called back,

“Ya, ah hey, I have ten boxes and…………..um, no I’m another guy. Ya and they all weigh exactly 22 pounds, and they all have a girth of…….three.”

“Three what?”

“Three… girth units.”
“come pick them up please, I’m begging you. They’re boxes….and they’re brown and they have tape all on them. And they probably fit on a dolly.”