Mean City Cycle Shipping Methodology
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Joined: Dec 2006
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From: ST. Louis
You can probably get a seat box from your local dealer.
Bubble wrap it.
Then go to a Mail Box Ect store or a UPS store or any shipping store. They will all check shipping prices for all shippers in your area.
I use a local store called "Wrap it up". It'll show right on the same screen the USPS, UPS and Fed Ex price.
Already have it boxed up and ready for shipping though. Usually their labor/boxes/tape/packing material is really expensive.
Bubble wrap it.
Then go to a Mail Box Ect store or a UPS store or any shipping store. They will all check shipping prices for all shippers in your area.
I use a local store called "Wrap it up". It'll show right on the same screen the USPS, UPS and Fed Ex price.
Already have it boxed up and ready for shipping though. Usually their labor/boxes/tape/packing material is really expensive.
Guys just a word of advice. going to a UPS Store or FedEx/Kinkos is the two most expensive ways to ship. I would recommend doing the shipping online via Fedex or UPS and dropping the seat off with a label on it at one of those two places. The stores charge extra for them handling the boxes, printing your own shipping label and boxing the seat yourself will save you a lot of money and I do mean A LOT$$$. Overnight shipping is extremely expensive due to the box sizes required to ship a seat. They do not gauge this by the weight because the seats only weigh around 8 to 10 lbs but the size of the box and they consider a box 32x16x12 to be a 30-40 lbs box.
UPS is courting us heavily and if I end up switching over to them we may start offering a deal where we offer a UPS Pickup from your front door. So all you would have to do is box the seat up, sit outside your front door on the day specified and UPS will pick it up and put their label on it. I am still trying to work the deal out and the UPS rep is telling me this can be done with no problems but we aren't there just yet. This will save 85% of our customers a lot of money in shipping cost because it will drive up our shipping numbers which will get us a better discount on it but until then I still recommend boxing your own seat up and at least running the shipping online at either Fedex.com or UPS.com this will save you a lot of money over the UPS store and Fedex/kinkos stores.
UPS is courting us heavily and if I end up switching over to them we may start offering a deal where we offer a UPS Pickup from your front door. So all you would have to do is box the seat up, sit outside your front door on the day specified and UPS will pick it up and put their label on it. I am still trying to work the deal out and the UPS rep is telling me this can be done with no problems but we aren't there just yet. This will save 85% of our customers a lot of money in shipping cost because it will drive up our shipping numbers which will get us a better discount on it but until then I still recommend boxing your own seat up and at least running the shipping online at either Fedex.com or UPS.com this will save you a lot of money over the UPS store and Fedex/kinkos stores.
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From: Billings,Mt.
Dont they offer this service already from the online site?
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If you setup a UPS account online, than ship it in the proper size box, give it to any UPS driver or drop it of at a UPS store. this will be the cheapest route. Same thing works with FEDEX, but don't take it to the UPS store for drop off, you will need to find a Kinko's.
Things that will rise the cost fast...
Calling for a pickup
Oversize box
Pay to ship it at the UPS store or any outlet
Using any hand written forms
Things that will rise the cost fast...
Calling for a pickup
Oversize box
Pay to ship it at the UPS store or any outlet
Using any hand written forms
