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Title: Shipping
Post by: HaRuMaN on February 09, 2005, 02:39:02 pm

Generally speaking, who is cheaper for shipping packages?  Fed-Ex, UPS, DHL, or the Post Office?

That being asked, who has the most reliable sevice?

Title: Re: Shipping
Post by: Shape D. on February 09, 2005, 02:42:02 pm

post office is usually the cheapest, but they are also the slowest.
dhl is the most reliable.
ups breaks crap
fedex is more expensive.

Title: Re: Shipping
Post by: JoyMonkey on February 09, 2005, 03:02:41 pm

I use DHL, I find that UPS are a little rough with fragile packages and FedEx likes to lose my packages sometimes. I think DHL is the cheapest.

Title: Re: Shipping
Post by: Stingray on February 09, 2005, 03:59:45 pm

DHL would be great if they could actually find the delivery address. I've never had a problem with anything getting broken via UPS. For small packages, USPS priority is almost always the best option.

-S

Title: Re: Shipping
Post by: Daniel270 on February 09, 2005, 04:06:51 pm

3 years ago, I bought 36lbs of glass marbles for a game board project I was working on at the time...   the seller used Fed Ex to ship.

I never saw that package.... by the time it got to my neck of the woods, there were only 3 lbs of it left.   Shipper notified me later that the package had returned to him with a nice hole in it  (33 lbs of marbles between TX and AL)...

Shipper then used UPS.... package DID arrive intact, albeit beat to hell and back.... luckily, no broken or lost marbles....