The problem with USPS if you live in an apartment is that they drop the box at the door. Many packages are stolen.
Sent from my iPad > On Jan 1, 2019, at 11:06 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX <[email protected]> wrote: > > I always sell for a price and state that the buyer pays packing and shipping > charges. I don't recall ever loosing a sale due to those terms. I use a > commercial packing service and can always quote the packing and shipping > charges once the destination is known. > > In general I find USPS Priority is less expensive and faster than UPS ground > or Fed-X ground. I shipped my K3S to Elecraft via USPS Priority. It took 3 > days from the time I dropped it at the Post Office on a Wednesday and was > delivered on Friday. Once repaired, it was shipped to me via UPS ground > which took 9 days, of which it sat in a UPS distribution center for 3 days. > I'm not bashing UPS, just stating the facts. > > I sold my Collins 32S1 transmitter to a fellow in Australia. He paid $425 > for the item and the shipping and packing charges was $375, for a total of > $800 USD. Expensive transmitter! But I guess he wanted it real bad. > > 73 > > Bob, K4TAX > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
