16 Jun
2003
16 Jun
'03
4 a.m.
UPS Overpacks. Why? Overpacking costs more money.
I have shipped via UPS and they always want to put items in a much larger
box size than is necessary. I now ship FedEx which not only is more
reliable and flexible, is cheaper too.
--- "J.C. Wren" <jcwren(a)jcwren.com>
wrote:
It's all very dependent on the store.
But they used a canned program to tell them how much
bubble wrap/peanuts and what size box to use, don't
they?
When I went there to have a item packaged the clerk
typed in the size of the item and it printed out how
much bubble wrap to use, what size box, which in turn
was used to compute the price and keep track of their
inventory.
I don't think they have the option to add more bubble
wrap or change the box dimensions, unless they fudge
the size of the item.