Shipping

"ncasolowork2" (ncasolowork2) 08/12/2014 at 11:36 • Filed to: None

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What is the most cost effective way to ship something heavy? Like say I wanted to ship a case of printer paper in a box. Those things are extremely heavy. (Ultimately I'm shipping some collectable cards for the sake of making it easy to understand we'll call them Magic the Gathering cards) I think USPS charges on weight. I don't know about FedEx or UPS.

thebigbossyboss > ncasolowork2 08/12/2014 at 11:38

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Greyhound. Slow, but cheap for shipping heavy crap.

Source: Moved across Canada, shipped most stuff via Greyhound.

HammerheadFistpunch > ncasolowork2 08/12/2014 at 11:40

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You can ship things USPS via bookrate, its for heavy dense stuff and its slow but cheap.

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > ncasolowork2 08/12/2014 at 11:41

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You might want to see how much UPS or Fedex Freight would charge instead of their delivery service, especially if either one of them has a facility near you that you can drop the shipment off at.

GhostZ > thebigbossyboss 08/12/2014 at 11:42

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Was going to suggest this exact thing. It's great for large vehicle parts like fenders and hoods.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ncasolowork2 08/12/2014 at 12:04

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USPS has flat rate boxes. Whatever you can fit in the box you can ship pretty much regardless of the weight. They advertise it as no weight limit, but if you read the fine print I think there is a limit. That would probably be the cheapest as UPS and FedEx will charge via weight+distance. The problem with that is that it goes USPS and you won't be able to track it and it will take forever and there seems to be a better chance of the package being damaged. I personally have not had good luck with USPS for package shipments.

lone_liberal > ncasolowork2 08/12/2014 at 12:04

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Greyhound or USPS flat rate which is based on volume but does have a max weight limit.

ncasolowork2 > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 08/12/2014 at 12:08

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Largest flat rate boxes don't even begin to hold what I'm shipping.