Best way to ship boards

**PartTimeScrapper** · 02-02-2012, 09:47 PM

You are correct 70 lbs max limit. But ship 1 100lb box fedex and 2 50 pounders usps parcel post and see the difference in price. This is what I come up with using the online calculater from denver to PA.

80465 to 15501
fedex ground 3 day is $89.44 for 100lb box
ups ground 4 days $98.45 for 100lb box
USPS $38.95 per 50 pound box x2 is $77.90 for & day delivery.

SO in my opinion if time is a factor fedex is way to go. If money is factor USPS is way to go. above prices are without insurance. I would suggest putting insurance on any boards you ship with USPS if box breaks open in transit and you loose something from it without insurance then its your loss. I speak from experience I lost one of the 2 cats I shipped to focker this way.

Also on side note you can get better prices with USPS as well if you use you paypal account to create the shipping labels. Not to mention youll help me keep my dayjob. Wait on second thaught Ide rather be scrappin.

**ilyaz** · 02-03-2012, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

80465 to 15501
fedex ground 3 day is $89.44 for 100lb box
ups ground 4 days $98.45 for 100lb box
USPS $38.95 per 50 pound box x2 is $77.90 for & day delivery.

I might be doing something wrong but I got two price quotes and fedex came on top.

50lbs 22" X 21" X 11" (I recently shipped a 100-lb box that was 22x22x21, so I split it in half)
from 20850 to 44095
value = $150

usps (parcel post + insurance + delivery confirmation) = $27.38
fedex (ground, with account) = $20.18

With USPS I did not have a choice of any "flat rate" service and parcel was the cheapest (not counting media mail rate)