Well I'll confess to being in the USPS supporter camp. I've had great service
from them. My KPA1500 even came Priority Mail.
I use the addressing scheme below too.
I have a POB and another great free PO service is Informed delivery. Every
morning I get an email with pictures of mail for the day. From it I can make a
decision if I want to or need to go to the PO that day. Here:
https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action
Not a well known PO service.
73,
Bob
K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) & K2TKR
On 9/25/2018 8:48 PM, JOE wrote:
On 9/25/2018 8:15 PM, elecraft-requ...@mailman.qth.net wrote:
Message: 6
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 14:36:59 -0400
From: Grant Youngman<ghyoung...@gmail.com>
To: Elecraft Reflector Reflector<elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Elecraft] Shipping high value items by UPS
The thread started by the gentleman who thought his KX2 might be dead and
needed to go to Elecraft motivated me to make this comment about shipping.
I shipped my K3 back to Elecraft earlier this year via UPS and $2,500
insurance. I use a local hardware store in my town that has UPS service at the
normal rates. They said they use a company that contracts with UPS for
shipping. The company that provides the UPS service to the hardware store
requires inspection of high value packages, reportedly due to some fraud cases
in the past. Because they know me well they took my word that I double boxed it
and packed it well, I didn't have to unpack it. I had shipped many things with
them in the past with no problems.
For the return address, I use my local post office where I have a PO box. It's
a little known fact that the USPS will accept packages for PO box holders from
any private carrier, UPS, FedEx, etc. They will also sign for some packages
requiring signature if you have a signature on file. This solves my problem of
packages left on my doorstep for people to potentially steal. This also solves
the problem of people/businesses that will not ship to a PO box.
This is how I address packages to be mailed to me.
My Name
34 Main Street #(my PO box number)
East Haddam, CT 06423
A really nice feature of the post office. Look at:
<https://www.usps.com/manage/po-boxes.htm>
73, Joe, K1ike
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