Yes, I too find that shipping has become more and more expensive.
Typically I ship 2 to 3 radios per week. I've resolved to deliver them to
the place that handles all of my packing and shipping. It is less hassle on
my part and I can reasonably assure the merchandise will arrive without
damage.
What I find is they charge me for the box used to ship the merchandise,
charge for the packing materials used inside the box, charge for the labor
to pack the item using their supplied materials, plus the UPS or Fed X
charge. Of course those in themselves have fuel surcharges and such. In
many cases they figure dimensional weight as opposed to actual weight when
calculating the shipping charges.
Oh yes, I could do it all myself, but I'd have to chase around for a box,
get packing materials, do the packing and such. Who pays for this? As I
view things, the choice is play and pay or don't play. As the old saying
goes "if one is going to a dance, they must pay the fiddler".
73
Bob, K4TAX
----- Original Message -----
From: "K7TXO Radio" <k7txoradio@gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2014 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] order (delivery costs)
You might look into what I do sometimes to get lower shipping cost. The
price to get packages shipped to a business is usually less than the price
to ship to a residential address. You might see if this applies to your
area by creating a shipment estimate in UPS or FEDEX from say, TEN-TEC's
address to a business address close to your home that you either work at
or they would accept deliveries for you. The difference in cost might be
significant enough to change where you have packages delivered too.
I suppose there is less work for pickup/drop offs to businesses plus the
potential to pickup/drop off multiple packages from that/other businesses
nearby would be more efficient driver time. I know in my case, I have
some of my radio equipment purchases delivered to where I work and it can
sometimes be $10 or more dollars, less than having the same things shipped
to my house. My work is ok with me having packages delivered to the
office. If the pricing works out for you, check first with the business to
make sure they are ok with packages coming for you. It might also be
cheaper to have packages delivered to a UPS or FEDEX office instead of
putting on a local delivery truck to your house but I have never checked
to see if they offer or allow that as a specific program for less money.
I do now you can alter a delivery already in transit to your house, to
have packages held at these offices but I do not think that lowers the
price of the delivery.
There definitely is a lower price for large items that come by Surface
Truck when delivery is to a business. They do not like having to run
those trucks into residential neighborhoods (fuel usage, size of trucks,
time hunting in a residential area, additional school zones, etc) plus the
facilities to unload at a business are often better. Forklift might be
used for example to unload multiple packages or larger packages that might
be done by hand but nobody really wants to lift. Say, an old HENRY 2k
amplifier for example. Or some businesses have docks that will match the
floor height of a surface truck; the truck folks really like that; faster
load/unload times. If a rear lift is required to make a residential drop
for larger stuff, they charge extra for routing one of the trucks in their
fleet that would be equipped with a lift like that. Obviously an Omni
VII or other radio will ship UPS or FEDEX instead but still cheaper to
have them drop it off at a business. If you are not at home to receive
the package, it could be safer to have it dropped at a business too.
And finally, there are some companies that used to require shipments go to
the recipients billing address but I think that is rarer today. Too many
people have a different mailing address versus their billing address.
Gene / K7TXO
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Carling
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 6:09 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] order
Thanks. I think they still overcharged me and used a very flimsy box. No
big deal though.
Best regards - Bry Carling
On Jul 18, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Jim Carragher <k7ikn2@gmail.com> wrote:
Shipping for the Omni 7 with PS and encoder is $27.50 to Nevada.
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Brian Carling <bcarling@cfl.rr.com>
wrote:
How much do they want for shipping on a new one?
Best regards - Bry Carling
On Jul 18, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Darrel <74010.2230@compuserve.com> wrote:
I placed an order for an Omni 7 on July 8th, via the Internet. An
email
from Stan told me that delivery would be roughly 12 weeks.
73, Darrel, aa7fv.
I placed an order for an Omni 7 on July 7th on the phone. Today, the
17th,
I received an e-mail stating it was being shipped. IMHO, ten days is
quick,
from order to shipping. Jim, K7IKN
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