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How to Save Money
The Shipping Environment
How to pack for shipping
How to ship odd stuff
About insurance
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We divide the business of boxes into two categories:
Moving .... such as (United Van Lines, U-Haul or your own truck) and
Shipping .... such as (Post Office, UPS, FedEx)
Movers tend to handle boxes pretty carefully. But the shipping environment is pretty rough. |
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| All the comments in this section assume your boxes are going to be handled roughly in the shipping environment. |
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Nationally, a
lot of the shipping tends to go to across the country. It
can get expensive. We think we can save anyone a couple of bucks
with the tips in our How to Save Money page.
Most people have a very rosey and very wrong idea about how boxes are
handled in transit. We thought we'd try to offer a clearer
picture of what happens. See our Shipping Environment page.
We've actually had customers say they were packing well because they
"Only had about a 10% loss rate" in shipping. This rate of
loss is absolutely terrible! Any loss rate above 1 in a
thousand should be cause for rethinking your packing. Our How to Pack for Shipping page is a summary of suggestions for good packing.
We run across a lot of e-Bay sellers who suddenly discover their
package is too big or too heavy for the post office. Our How to Ship Odd Stuff page offers a number of alternatives.
Finally, if worse comes to worse you may need to collect on an insurance claim. Check out our About Insurance page. We've got a couple of valuable tips you won't read anywhere else.
Remember, if you're packing a box for moving -- that is if only you or
your mover will be handling your boxes -- you don't need to be quite so
careful about packing. Check out our "How to Pack for a Move" page, instead. |
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