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Psych Lit · Guru

RE: no good deed goes unpunished

Psych Lit · Guru

BoxDog wrote:

http://www.usps.com/shipping/prioritymail.htm

If you have time they'll send you the packages to your home, FREE. Then you print the labels out and they'll pick the packages up. It doesn't get much simpler or reasonably priced for shipping.

Sorry, FOUR different size/shaped boxes are available at the same rate. And you can shove 70 pounds of stuff into them for the same rate. It's the best deal out there. Now, postcards? I dunno what the hell the usps does with those. :( But I never had a problem with the Flat Rate mailings. I've sent many in the last four years or so.

thanks! ill have to check this out in the am. thats a lot lower than the quote i got online so its worth a trip to the po. i didnt make it to fedex on time today. i had to go to the cheesecake factory for a goodbye dinner.

why do people pick chain restaurants for these things? and why expensive chain restaurants? i was able to resist the cheesecake thank god. tho i wasnt about to pay 7 bucks for a goblet of strawberries.

Psych Lit · Guru

Nightowlhoot3 wrote:

I've only been on the "incoming" end of packages recently ... that telescope cost over $45 to mail, thought (USPS.)

The only thing I've actually put in the mail in MONTHS was a postcard I mailed a few weeks ago ... which never reached its destination.

thats scary. why dont the bills ever get lost?

BoxDog · Guru

Psych Lit wrote:

anyone mail a package lately? holy crud its expensive. i have a box of old cds that i offered to a friend in canada and apparently its going to cost more to mail them than it would be to buy them outright. i had hoped to avoid the trip to fed ex where i have a discount and a 30 mile ride. still its gotta be cheaper than the USPS. and then there is a canadian tax on top of that??? gotta feel for people in canada if you send them a gift you apparently have to pay the tax on that gift. im thinking a lot of people must "forget" those birthdays. geesh.

If the main goal is to just get the music to your friend it would be least expensive to burn the stuff to a flash drive and mail that. For around a dollar. If the cd cases and disks are the stuff of collections, go with the flat rate package, USPS.

BoxDog · Guru

Psych Lit wrote:

anyone mail a package lately? holy crud its expensive. i have a box of old cds that i offered to a friend in canada and apparently its going to cost more to mail them than it would be to buy them outright. i had hoped to avoid the trip to fed ex where i have a discount and a 30 mile ride. still its gotta be cheaper than the USPS. and then there is a canadian tax on top of that??? gotta feel for people in canada if you send them a gift you apparently have to pay the tax on that gift. im thinking a lot of people must "forget" those birthdays. geesh.

NO! The USPS has something called "flat rate" packages that are available in three distinctly different shapes and you can shove any weight or item in them that isn't illegal, flammable or liquid for around 10 bucks.

http://www.usps.com/shipping/prioritymail.htm

If you have time they'll send you the packages to your home, FREE. Then you print the labels out and they'll pick the packages up. It doesn't get much simpler or reasonably priced for shipping.

Sorry, FOUR different size/shaped boxes are available at the same rate. And you can shove 70 pounds of stuff into them for the same rate. It's the best deal out there. Now, postcards? I dunno what the hell the usps does with those. :( But I never had a problem with the Flat Rate mailings. I've sent many in the last four years or so.

Nightowlhoot3 · Guru

Psych Lit wrote:

anyone mail a package lately? holy crud its expensive. i have a box of old cds that i offered to a friend in canada and apparently its going to cost more to mail them than it would be to buy them outright. i had hoped to avoid the trip to fed ex where i have a discount and a 30 mile ride. still its gotta be cheaper than the USPS. and then there is a canadian tax on top of that??? gotta feel for people in canada if you send them a gift you apparently have to pay the tax on that gift. im thinking a lot of people must "forget" those birthdays. geesh.

I've only been on the "incoming" end of packages recently ... that telescope cost over $45 to mail, thought (USPS.)

The only thing I've actually put in the mail in MONTHS was a postcard I mailed a few weeks ago ... which never reached its destination.

Psych Lit · Guru

anyone mail a package lately? holy crud its expensive. i have a box of old cds that i offered to a friend in canada and apparently its going to cost more to mail them than it would be to buy them outright. i had hoped to avoid the trip to fed ex where i have a discount and a 30 mile ride. still its gotta be cheaper than the USPS. and then there is a canadian tax on top of that??? gotta feel for people in canada if you send them a gift you apparently have to pay the tax on that gift. im thinking a lot of people must "forget" those birthdays. geesh.