Subj : piano, LPs, Clive Cussler
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sat Sep 26 2020 07:05:00


Hi Daryl!

<shipment to Augustus>
 DS> money, I'd be glad to ship them to you. It'd cost a bunch to
 DS> ship, and I'm not sure which is the best way...especially
 DS> considering there are a large amount of books and LP's, that I
 BM> Obviously check around for best rate.  Remember the Post Office does
 BM> have a Book Rate option.  OTOH UPS might be able to pack for you and
 BM> might have better insurance.
 DS>   Well, either way, I don't have funding to do it at the moment,
 DS> so it has to wait.
 DS>   Plus, I've had bad experiences with both the Postal Service
 DS> (lost pieces of mail to/from me), and UPS (when still working,
 DS> they lost 2 shipments of 10,000 decals from my workplace to a
 DS> business in state... then, they said I didn't supply a power cord
 DS> to an item that I had shipped. I think they just pocketed it, and
 DS> lied about it). I've never had a problem with FedEx. Now, if
 DS> weather is an issue, I can understand a delay. But if weather
 DS> isn't the issue, then the employees are just being careless and
 DS> lazy.
 
Looks like you'll be using FedEx.  Didn't intend to turn this into a 
debate, just a reminder there are multiple rates and options out there, 
so can be helpful to ask.

Loosing the decals seems like a good trick, but I could see how that 
could possibly happen: truck caught on fire, dropped off at wrong 
business with their multiple package shipment (and that business didn't 
notice or care to correct.  Other maybe's.

Have had problem with the Post Office: the occasional piece of missing 
mail.  Can't think of a package issue right now but probably (and a lot 
of damages were more due to the shipper using flimsy containers than a 
'Postal Elephant' sitting on them).
 
FedEx, DHL, UPS: generally good luck, though do recall someone shipped 
to me a dog crate for my newly adopted dog and it got lost by the 
carrier.  Was replaced.

 
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