- 1. shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:45:57 -0400
- Listers, I had a package to mail today to So. Calf., so I drive the 12 miles roundtrip to the local USPO, it weighs 12 pounds and is just a small box (9X9X12), =priority 3/4 days 23.80, regular mail
- /html/triumphs/2001-07/msg00551.html (7,495 bytes)
- 2. Re: shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 22:49:09 EDT
- The postal service is the way to go for lighter packages though. ~ 3.75 for a 2 lb pack to any US location VS UPS ~ 6.75 1/2 way across the country. If a UPS package is going to a business, shipping
- /html/triumphs/2001-07/msg00555.html (7,309 bytes)
- 3. Re: shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:13:55 -0500
- Do we actually subsidize them? You mean with tax money? I'm not real sure about that. I think that the USPS is chartered to break even. What's your source? Also, I have found some combinations of siz
- /html/triumphs/2001-07/msg00560.html (8,676 bytes)
- 4. Re: shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 17:02:46 -0700
- Right and the USPO stuff is not easily traceable!!! with UPS you can trace and track it yourself on the WEB. I really don't understand why anyone EVER uses the USPO for anything other than stamped le
- /html/triumphs/2001-07/msg00625.html (7,478 bytes)
- 5. RE: shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 00:12:13 -0400
- Because UPS charges brokerage fees to Canada. Canada Post only charges you Canada Post once refunded me $63.00 in shipping charges because they were 2 days late. UPS will give you this song and dance
- /html/triumphs/2001-07/msg00652.html (7,840 bytes)
- 6. Re: shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:58:45 -1000 (HST)
- can trace anyone EVER Well, if you live in Hawaii all you are offered is UPS 2 day (or 3 day) air. USPS priority is the way to go. UPS also has a bad problem with theft and breakage IMHO. And if your
- /html/triumphs/2001-07/msg00881.html (7,475 bytes)
- 7. Re: shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 20:46:19 -0400
- Since I was informed last week by some listers the USPO was not subsidized, I would like to clarify my statement, on the NBC evening news this very evening, I quote "The USPO" only "LOST" 2.2 billion
- /html/triumphs/2001-07/msg00888.html (7,530 bytes)
- 8. Re: shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:03:40 -0500
- top I have had a tough time finding any source giving numbers for any subsidy to the USPS. This is as close as I have come so far: This is as excerpt from http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0301/030601w
- /html/triumphs/2001-07/msg00894.html (8,464 bytes)
- 9. Re: shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:55:59 -0500
- Maybe they just borrow it? Reaganomics meets the USPS. Perhaps the "rising postal deficit" will be a hot issue during the next election? Nah. ;{) -Erik -- Erik Quackenbush, V.P. Operations, Midwest F
- /html/triumphs/2001-07/msg00912.html (7,871 bytes)
- 10. Re: Shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:12:05 GMT
- I just bumped into an article about this on SLATE less than a half hour before reading the latest Triumphs Digest! How Does the Postal Service Pay Its Bills? By Chris Suellentrop Posted Thursday, Ju
- /html/triumphs/2001-07/msg00932.html (8,559 bytes)
- 11. RE: Shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:15:37 -0700
- http://slate.msn.com/Code/explainer/explainer.asp?Show=7/19/2001&idMessage=8 012 which contains : Ah yes, another fine example of government double speak. It's not really a subsidy, see, because it d
- /html/triumphs/2001-07/msg00956.html (7,997 bytes)
- 12. Fw: Shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:15:03 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
- Here's the straight scoop on Rimmer shipping. Ed Woods -
- /html/triumphs/1999-01/msg01350.html (6,595 bytes)
- 13. Shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 08:46:11 -0600
- Recently, I bought a Spitfire 1500, and now have to go to LA to pick it up and bring it back to IL..... I will be taking the trip sometime this month, if all goes well, and am looking for ways to fin
- /html/triumphs/1998-02/msg00136.html (6,860 bytes)
- 14. Re: Shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 23:58:13 -0700 (MST)
- Scott Davis sez: If anyone wants something large/heavy shipped to LA from Chicago, or vice versa, or anywhere inbetween, I am very interested in arranging somehting with you You know, one possible ro
- /html/triumphs/1998-02/msg00199.html (6,354 bytes)
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