Shipping 11 leaf spring pack

[bigmuddy]

anybody know what the 11 leaf rear spring pack weighs?

Thanks Ben

 

[TheBroncoRanch]

They are 45-50 pounds each I believe. I shipped a set to Mark on this fourm earlier this year.

 

[Dusty]

Deaver's are 50# each spring. Just slap the UPS label right on them...we don' need no steenking boxes!

Dusty

 

[DSGStang]

yup, I just got mine in the mail. 50 pounds and labels stuck right on them. No boxes.

 

[bigmuddy]

Funny you guys mention the no boxes thing. I checked with both UPS and DHL and they both told me that they would charge me 12 bucks extra for them not being in a box. So I had to modify this huge box and waste a bunch of time to not be charged 24 bucks on top of the already high price of roughly a buck a pound for shipping.

Ben

 

[ztoolman44]

F@$% UPS and their boxes. I ship around 100 packages a year with them and last week they decide to open one up for a random check halfway to the destination. When they reclosed the box and taped it back up, they left the wrong flaps out and it got sent back to me because the old label was now showing. Told me it was my fault for leaving an old label on the box (even though it was inside the box when it left my place) and say that I have to pay to have it resent the second time. They claim that I should use a new box everytime I send something to avoid confusion. Moral of the story I guess is make sure you remove all traces of old labels before you send something UPS.

Sorry, had to vent. Anyone use Fed-Ex? How are their rates?

 

[Broncoman]

F@$% UPS and their boxes. I ship around 100 packages a year with them and last week they decide to open one up for a random check halfway to the destination. When they reclosed the box and taped it back up, they left the wrong flaps out and it got sent back to me because the old label was now showing. Told me it was my fault for leaving an old label on the box (even though it was inside the box when it left my place) and say that I have to pay to have it resent the second time. They claim that I should use a new box everytime I send something to avoid confusion. Moral of the story I guess is make sure you remove all traces of old labels before you send something UPS.

Sorry, had to vent. Anyone use Fed-Ex? How are their rates?

Sounds like bull**** to me. They shoudn't charge to resend something they screwed up on. It was one of there employees that damaged your properly packaged box. I would fight that.

 

[71 LUBER]

I just shipped soft doors to a member in LA. UPS wanted $146 ground. Fedex Ground was $75. As for screwing up shipments, Fedex Ground has been worse than UPS for me.

 

[bigmuddy]

I try to use DHL as much as possible. Much cheaper than UPS. I have noticed I have been receiving more and more packages sent by fed-ex lately.

Ben

 

[Tito]

Fedex is how I ship everything I can, much better prices and service that I have found. Glad to see some good competition in the package shipping industry. DHL can work but be sure you have insurance, they like to pass stuff on to the USPS and independents to complete their package delivery (some strange guy in his honda delivering your package to you is not very professional). I have had several lost through them.

 

[ztoolman44]

Sounds like bull**** to me. They shoudn't charge to resend something they screwed up on. It was one of there employees that damaged your properly packaged box. I would fight that.

I fought it for over an hour and got no where. I figure that my time is worth more than talking in circles with UPS and the shipping was only $12 so I gave up.

I will ship it USPS this time and take my business elsewhere. UPS also started charging to pick up packages and won't bring a pre-printed label to my customers anymore so this is one customer that will not be back.

 

[kbldawg]

I usually find that FedEx has better rates than UPS. I typically don't ship DHL because I ship everything out of my office at work and they only have accounts with UPS and FedEx, easier that way. I do agree though, DHL has some pretty good rates.