Engraving Supplier Shipping Cost???

[Mike Troncalli]

Dan, Good post...

Couple of other items as well.. We also drop ship for web customers. We charge a $2.50 drop ship fee, as I have explained to them it takes just as long to tape a box, go to the computer and enter the shipping information, print the label, etc... for 1 item as it does for 10. I have never had anybody complain about the fee. Also, (And I need to check again), but when you enter your info into the UPS system and print your label, you get the price. But if you have ever compared the shipping price to the actual invoice????? The shipping price that they show when printing the label doesn't show the "fuel surcharge" on your bill...AND funny enough as I am typing this post I checked one of my invoices and found out that they are charging me a "residential fee" for one of my commercial address customers... HMMM... I know WHO I'll be calling today...

[Bert Kemp]

What I found out yesterday enraged me a little. I was waiting for a package from TN shipped USPS . I checked tracking on Sunday it said departed Phoenix 9:32am. Well I assumed(yes I know)that it was going from Phoenix to my local PO, So when it wasn't delivered on Monday I went to PO to see if the truck was late and it didn't make my mail truck . They said no it hasn't got to the PO yet. So I asked were it was they said that it goes from Phoenix to the County hub then to your local. I said what,!! So basicly what happens is the truck with my package drove right past my PO another 70 miles to a PO unloaded scanned and loaded on to another truck to be driven back 70 miles to my PO. This happens with all mail coming to my PO from Phoenix. You wonder why the po is going broke and they keep raising prices. Talk about inefficiency .

[Dan Hintz]

What I found out yesterday enraged me a little. I was waiting for a package from TN shipped USPS . I checked tracking on Sunday it said departed Phoenix 9:32am. Well I assumed(yes I know)that it was going from Phoenix to my local PO, So when it wasn't delivered on Monday I went to PO to see if the truck was late and it didn't make my mail truck . They said no it hasn't got to the PO yet. So I asked were it was they said that it goes from Phoenix to the County hub then to your local. I said what,!! So basicly what happens is the truck with my package drove right past my PO another 70 miles to a PO unloaded scanned and loaded on to another truck to be driven back 70 miles to my PO. This happens with all mail coming to my PO from Phoenix. You wonder why the po is going broke and they keep raising prices. Talk about inefficiency .

No, it's actually more efficient to do it as described... they break out each section of the world into smaller and smaller sections, and the shipments get broken out in the same way. To go directly from one large hub to every mailbox within a 300 miles radius would be way too slow and costly. It takes extra time for your particular package, but the overall cost for the post office to move things this way is lower.

[Liesl Dexheimer]

What I found out yesterday enraged me a little. I was waiting for a package from TN shipped USPS . I checked tracking on Sunday it said departed Phoenix 9:32am. Well I assumed(yes I know)that it was going from Phoenix to my local PO, So when it wasn't delivered on Monday I went to PO to see if the truck was late and it didn't make my mail truck . They said no it hasn't got to the PO yet. So I asked were it was they said that it goes from Phoenix to the County hub then to your local. I said what,!! So basicly what happens is the truck with my package drove right past my PO another 70 miles to a PO unloaded scanned and loaded on to another truck to be driven back 70 miles to my PO. This happens with all mail coming to my PO from Phoenix. You wonder why the po is going broke and they keep raising prices. Talk about inefficiency .

I know what you mean. Even if I mail something locally it has to go through Providence, RI (which wayyyy out of the way, about 40 miles from here).