This is odd really... UPS pays their employees more, but Fedex gives better service at a lower price! UPS also has been known to hassle their customers a lot over how things are packed, and over insurance claims.
On 7 Dec 2005 at 9:29, Merz Donald S wrote: > No question. I've been shipping for about 12 years now. I used to be a UPS > customer but I learned my lesson. FedEx has been a much better experience all > around. > 73, Don M. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 5:34 PM > To: Merz Donald S; 'Amradio (E-mail); 'Glowbugs (E-mail) > Subject: Re: GB> Shipping Rate Increases > > > Don, > > I feel your pain! Actually I have used FedEx for the last several years > because they are between 30-40% cheaper than The Brown Truck Folks, they have > never lost any package I have sent or received, and the biggie: They didn't > lobby the FCC and steal 2 MHz of our 220MHz band, then not give it back when > they found that the package tracking scheme would not work on that group of > freqs. FedEx is my prefered shipper, even if they do increase rates. They > will still be cheaper than UPS and they will be quicker, in most cases, too. > > vy 73 > > Rich K7SZ > > > >Subject: GB> Shipping Rate Increases > > >Shipping Rate Increases > >FedEx sent me their annual letter of good cheer this week. FedEx and UPS > >work off of the same ICC rate card, so I suspect that this also applies to > >UPS. Anyway... > >Rates are up 5.5% > >Fuel surcharge is down 2% (making the net rate increase 3.5%) > >Residential delivery up from $2 to $2.10 > >Saturday freight delivery up from $100 to a whopping $150 > >Merry Christmas! > >73, Don Merz, N3RHT > > > >?The information contained in this e-mail may be confidential and is > >intended solely for the use of the named addressee.Access, copying or re-use > >of the e-mail or any information contained therein by any other person is > >not authorized.If you are not the intended recipient please notify us > >immediately by returning the e-mail to the originator.(16b)? > > The information contained in this e-mail may be confidential and is intended > solely for the use of the named addressee. > Access, copying or re-use of the e-mail or any information contained therein > by any other person is not authorized. > If you are not the intended recipient please notify us immediately by > returning the e-mail to the originator.(17b) > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net > AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami
