Hey everyone i need to know who should i do business with far as shipping my t-shirts to customers for a reasonable fee. I want someone who is reliable and trustworthy.
Hi, If you are asking what shipping company, then we use USPS priority mail.
They deliver 6 days a week instead of only 5 like UPS or Fedex.
Plus you can get your shipping boxes FREE.
Hope this helps.
Russ
The post office, fedex and UPS are all fairly reliable and trustworthy.
To get the best price, depending on the shipping circumstance, you should use all 3. Or at least give your customer the choice of using whichever one they want to use.
Ditto what Joe posted. I give the customer the choice. If the service sucks then I can lay the blame on their choice of shipping. Naw just kidding. but the big three are all close in proximity so it really does not matter to me. Well, I take that back because actually I am only 1 mile form the main post office in Atlanta so it would be better for me if they choose USPS but if they don't the others are only around the corner a few minutes more.
I use Fedex and USPS most and both offer free supplies.
What kind of free supplies are you getting from Fedex Ground?
Should have clarified, my business is corporate apparel and when I send with Fedex it is always AIR which is free. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Ground supplies are not free.
where do you get the free packaging? At the USPS office? Just curious, I am going to be doing this from home - printing labels, paying online and leaving them at the mail box...
Just a little inside info.. I work for ups in sacramento ca. Believe it or not but ups does almost all of usps air service. We move hundreds of tons of usps air frieght daily! Usps has great rates and complimentry packaging up to a certain weight. Setting up an account with ups is free and tracking your shipments is sooo simple. And pick up service is free when you open an account. Dhl is discontinuing all domestic air service as of today in the west and by the 26 th of feb in all of usa. Do not ship dhl! We and fedex are fighting for dhl air service. Many many dhl packages going through the ups system right now and they are hard to track. Ups has free packaging if you dont mind shipping your apparel in plastic bags. It is cheap and the bags get high priority in transit because they pack easy and usually get grouped together in the front of the shipping containers in transit. Hope this helps!
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I had a client in here yesterday ordering shirts that runs the trucking company here that takes care of all of the FedEx ground trucks and he said he wouldn't ship with FedEx if they were the only company that shipped.
His opinion was it was a Mickey Mouse operation and they had more damaged product than not. Just passing on his opinion and he deals with them daily (they called 3 times while he was here.)
When trying to find a good shipping service, i care mostly about price. Selling online, I am using a paypal widget that has yet to incorporate shipping charges on it's own, so i am left at including the shipping cost in the price of the shirts. The thing about UPS, although i think they are extremely well organized and efficient in delivery and everything else, it costs me almost $10 to mail a shirt to a friend of mine who lives less than 5 miles away. At usps it would cost 2-4$ and would get there in the same time... There is no question there for me who i would rather go with.
The main thing that distinguishes the two (usps & ups,fedex, etc.) are the weights.
USPS is going to be cheaper for just a few shirts, so if you're sending just one shirt through a web order than offer USPS.
UPS&FedEx will be MUCH cheaper for bulk orders. As far as convenience and delivery, they are all pretty much the same. As the poster above noted they all even deliver for each other. I know that USPS priority mail is shipped with the commercial carriers as well. USPS does include free shipping on Saturday. That may be important for some customers.
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but the big three are all close in proximity so it really does not matter to me. Well, I take that back because actually I am only 1 mile form the main post office in Atlanta so it would be better for me if they choose USPS but if they don't the others are only around the corner a few minutes more.
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