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Help this disabled man get back on ebay
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:10:10 -0400, PeterD wrote:
On 3/21/2012 7:25 AM, beekeep wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:19:51 -0400, wrote: On 3/19/2012 6:18 PM, DevilsPGD wrote: If you package items for shipping as you list them instead of waiting until they sell, you'll be able to avoid this situation. Or just run your business like a business and ship daily... That works too, at least for me! -- I'm never going to grow up. For $10 a week UPS will stop by your house for package pickup 5 days a week. For free the USPS will stop by your house and pick up packages six days a week! -- I'm never going to grow up. Yup they will pickem up for free but its a crap shoot if they will deliver them. USPS would typically loose $1000 worth of my product a year. That's why I switched to UPS. Yes UPS costs a little more but their service is garanteed. The hoiday season was always a nightmare shipping bees but this year with UPS things went smooth as silk. beekeep |
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On 3/22/2012 6:37 AM, beekeep wrote:
Yup they will pickem up for free but its a crap shoot if they will deliver them. USPS would typically loose $1000 worth of my product a year. That's why I switched to UPS. Yes UPS costs a little more but their service is garanteed. The hoiday season was always a nightmare shipping bees but this year with UPS things went smooth as silk. beekeep We ship hundreds and hundreds of packages with USPS, we get perhaps one a year that doesn't deliver. Almost always it is the recipient's fault (no mail box, not the correct address, theft from common areas, etc.) and in many of these cases UPS/FedEx would have had the same problems. USPS is the best shipping alternative we have right now, no way that UPS can touch it. -- I'm never going to grow up. |
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On 3/22/2012 6:47 AM, beekeep wrote:
After USPS looses your package for a while and then finally gets around to delivering it and you get 1 star for shipping time on Ebay feedback, I think you will find the cost to be way higher than UPS. There's a lot to said about getting rid of the stress in your life. Free stuff is usually worth what you pay for it. After switching to UPS to ship my bees I see my business growing again! I lost many many customers due to USPS **** poor shipping service. beekeep Ship in 24 hours and eBay's rating system won't accept entry for shipping time. They are rating your time to the shipping company not the shipping company's performance. -- I'm never going to grow up. |
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"beekeep" wrote in message ... : On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:10:10 -0400, PeterD wrote: : : On 3/21/2012 7:25 AM, beekeep wrote: : On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:19:51 -0400, wrote: : : : Yup they will pickem up for free but its a crap shoot if they will : deliver them. USPS would typically loose $1000 worth of my product a : year. That's why I switched to UPS. Yes UPS costs a little more but : their service is garanteed. The hoiday season was always a nightmare : shipping bees but this year with UPS things went smooth as silk. : : beekeep : UPS is arrogant and obnoxious,always in a hurry, always looking for a way to keep from having to take the package, and slower than molasses running uphill in the winter, and they double park and tie up traffic this past Christmas Season UPS shipped more than 1900 packages for me,lost none,damaged one which was my fault They delivered parcel post,1st class, and priority mail at the same speed which was incredibly fast all winter and all over the world the only backups were the overseas postal offices |
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"PeterD" wrote in message ... : On 3/22/2012 6:47 AM, beekeep wrote: : After USPS looses your package for a while and then finally gets : around to delivering it and you get 1 star for shipping time on Ebay : feedback, I think you will find the cost to be way higher than UPS. : There's a lot to said about getting rid of the stress in your life. : Free stuff is usually worth what you pay for it. : : After switching to UPS to ship my bees I see my business growing : again! I lost many many customers due to USPS **** poor shipping : service. : : beekeep : : Ship in 24 hours and eBay's rating system won't accept entry for : shipping time. They are rating your time to the shipping company not the : shipping company's performance. : : -- : I'm never going to grow up. aren't they actually rating your time to upload tracking information ? |
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On Mar 22, 6:37*am, (beekeep) wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:10:10 -0400, PeterD wrote: On 3/21/2012 7:25 AM, beekeep wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:19:51 -0400, *wrote: On 3/19/2012 6:18 PM, DevilsPGD wrote: If you package items for shipping as you list them instead of waiting until they sell, you'll be able to avoid this situation. Or just run your business like a business and ship daily... That works too, at least for me! -- I'm never going to grow up. For $10 a week UPS will stop by your house for package pickup 5 days a week. For free the USPS will stop by your house and pick up packages six days a week! -- I'm never going to grow up. Yup they will pickem up for free but its a crap shoot if they will deliver them. *USPS would typically loose $1000 worth of my product a year. *That's why I switched to UPS. *Yes UPS costs a little more but their service is garanteed. *The hoiday season was always a nightmare shipping bees but this year with UPS things went smooth as silk. beekeep- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Oops - you've shared your experience with us ($1000 loss). Someone who doesn't understand business, large shipments, and your situation will probably call you a liar. One guess as to who it will be. Ignore her. Please...you can get good interaction with most group members, don't give up! |
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:03:21 -0400, PeterD wrote:
On 3/22/2012 6:37 AM, beekeep wrote: Yup they will pickem up for free but its a crap shoot if they will deliver them. USPS would typically loose $1000 worth of my product a year. That's why I switched to UPS. Yes UPS costs a little more but their service is garanteed. The hoiday season was always a nightmare shipping bees but this year with UPS things went smooth as silk. beekeep We ship hundreds and hundreds of packages with USPS, we get perhaps one a year that doesn't deliver. Almost always it is the recipient's fault (no mail box, not the correct address, theft from common areas, etc.) and in many of these cases UPS/FedEx would have had the same problems. USPS is the best shipping alternative we have right now, no way that UPS can touch it. -- I'm never going to grow up. Is that " hundreds and hundreds of packages with USPS" weekly or for the year? I ship close to a hundred packages a week presently, and I take it your packages don't have to make it thru alive? I've shipped well over 120,000 boxes of bees in the past 20 yrs. Most of those with USPS. I know more about the post office than I want to. The post office isn't really any cheaper either. They loose several billion dollars every year and we know who pays that debt. beekeep |
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On 3/23/2012 6:21 AM, beekeep wrote:
I know more about the post office than I want to. The post office isn't really any cheaper either. They loose several billion dollars every year and we know who pays that debt. Well, you have decided that USPS is not for you, which is fine. It works well for us, however, the free boxes, free pickup, known pricing (a major item for me!) and the fact that I don't get complaints about boxes being tossed over fences, or left at the wrong addresses all make it my top shipper. As to the USPS losses, foolish not to capitalize on that. I'm getting something for my money by using them, while people who don't ship with USPS get nothing, but are paying for it in the end. Shall we get political and get into why the USPS is loosing money? One reason, and only one reason: Unions! Yes, the unions forced contracts on the USPS that made no sense financially but everyone thought at the time it was great! Now the USPS is paying billions in pensions and retired health care, money that cannot be justified. -- I'm never going to grow up. |
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