People keep mentioning the cost as though that's the main issue. It's not, it's really the choice of shipper. I like what Grant said and generally agree with where he is coming from, but it's unfortunate to only side with UPS as they tend to be against the sort of employee treatment that he mentions.
Prior to the GWB administration forcing the USPS to pre-fund employee pensions (which no other federal agency or private company does) to the tune of $5 billion (!) per year, the USPS was essentially the most profitable not for profit company in the country. It was disastrous legislation for the USPS and most likely due to lobbying from private parcel delivery companies like UPS. Who want to charge much more for slower service. But that's off-topic for an off-topic thread. Sure, the costs are justified when shipping via UPS. UPS offers no shipping rate reductions to clients unless their volume is HUGE. So it gets passed onto the customer since Riv can't afford to take a hit on shipping. No brainer. The main point is using USPS first class or priority flat rate shipping for those smaller orders would be faster and cheaper for the customer, very easy to do with their online service, and I'm sure they already pick up and deliver to RBWHQ On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 6:22:49 PM UTC-4, Belopsky wrote: > > Ordered gloves, ferrules, a couple washers.. > > $9 for surepost. > > And estimate delivery? July 1st. Ridiculous, right? > > All of those items would fit into a flat rate envelope and be here in 3 > days vis USPS. > > Grant, hope you and others are listening. > > > Thoughts everyone? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
