An alternative to UPS

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Thu Jul 27 16:41:57 2000

>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Eros, Anthony wrote:
> >
> > > I'll definitely be looking at alternatives in the future. The other shoe in
> > > this is that it appears the shipper didn't bother to insure the package,
> > > despite my instructions to the contrary. Of course, those instructions were
> > > over the phone, not via e-mail, so I'm getting the "you didn't tell me you
> > > wanted me to insure it". Gee, now why wouldn't I want it insured? :-(
> >
> > It has already been mentioned but Fedex now has a Ground service which is
> > great for competition. For the most part, shipping anything bigger than a
> > book was always cheapest by UPS. Now that Fedex has a comparable ground
> > service (I believe they call it Green) there is an alternative. Even
> > better, the rates are apparently cheaper with Fedex.
> >
> > As far as books and magazines go, it is always cheaper to ship using the
> > US Postal Service book rate. You must request it at the counter. In some
> > cases you can save up to half the shipping costs.
>
> It is also worthy of note that disks and tapes also qualify for the book
> rate.
> - don

Are you positive? Did you read this someplace?

I'm almost ready to ship a bunch of floppy disks, but I dont see how
they qualify under book rate, and I don't know that I will be able
to convince MY local post office...

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Thu Jul 27 2000 - 16:41:57 BST