-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Thomas <vafred@erols.com>
To: Triumphs@autox.team.net <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, July 13, 2001 8:25 PM
Subject: shipping
>Listers, I had a package to mail today to So. Calf.,
>From where?
>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 5/7 days 18.75, no thank
>you says I and drive back home, call the 800 number for UPS, 3/4 day
>delivery, and they come to my home to pick it up, $13.80, now thats what I
>call a big difference in shipping, and to think we have to subsidize them
>every year. "FT"
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 size and weight where the USPS is
cheaper. Obviously, a small box weighing 12 pounds was not it.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/
"Kids haven't lost the feeling that the sense of wonder is more important
than wondering what makes sense. And if that doesn't define what it takes
to like British cars, I don't know what does." -Scott Fisher
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