How to Save Money The Shipping Environment How to pack for shipping How to ship odd stuff About insurance |
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| All the comments in this section assume your boxes are going to be handled roughly in the shipping environment. | ||
| Here
in San Diego, a lot of the shipping tends to go to "Zone 8"
or 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. About Insurance page. We've got a couple of crazy 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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