Best Shipper?

[brandon184]

Who would be the best shipper? Bearing in mind efficiency, speed, cost, etc.

-> Products shipped within continental North America
-> Residential delivery preferred.
-> No extremely fragile packages shipped.
-> Packages under 15lbs
-> No packages over 4cu. ft.

Thanks!

- Brandon

[JacobM5727]

from good to not as good (they are all pretty good), i say it goes

1. fedex
2. usps
3. ups

[greggdogg]

I also agree!

[Ed_S]

Business-to-business UPS does great!

But..you said residential, and for that they stink!

1 - USPS
2 - Fed Ex
3 -
4 - UPS

[dragonb]

From my experience in receiving packages, don't send that many, and without any relation to price...

1. USPS
2..
3..
4..

98. UPS
99. FED EX

Had some very bad experiences with fedex. I will never use them.
dragonb

[Reido!]

My roommate and I have come to call UPS "Unreliable Parcel Service." I have a hard drive that I RMA'd that is about 1 week late and right now in a city 3 hours south of me (Calgary). Packages that they try to drop off don't go straight to the warehouse so you can't pick them up; you have to wait 3 days till they stop trying to deliver the package and take it back to the warehouse.

I covered for the reciever in my store (a large office supply store) during a month over the summer and I would have to say for shipping within Canada the people to go with is Purolator. Everything always showed up bright and early and nothing was missing.

Just my $0.02

[brandon184]

Thanks for the votes & insights, guys!

Looks like Fedex wins (by far).. I'm impressed by their pricing, that's for sure.

- Brandon

[charmler]

I have had one not quite life threatening but close, malfunction with FedEx. My father left some important medical documents at my house when he was visiting 3 years ago. I found them and promptly zoomed to the airport ,but missed his flight. I should have done an airport to airport shipment but was ignorant of their existence, so I chose the overnight delivery of FedEx. This was on a Thursday morning. Dad needed the package by Monday morning for a scheduled pre-surgery checkup. The package got there monday at 5:00p. It cost $11.00 to ship it in the same time I could have driven twice and the surgery had to be postponed because the insurance wouldn't pay for duplicates to be wired. I can't blame them either as I wouldn't expect them to. FedEx said the shipments were NOT guaranteed and to plan for the delay. Ha Ha. Jokes on us.
UPS brings us more damaged packages than FedEx and USPS combined.
I vote for and use USPS 1ST FedEx next to last and UPS last.
Try Airborne express, they deliver quickly and with little or no damage.
InMyOpinion

[jkrohn]

I won't ever use UPS if I have the option. Last summer my girlfriend had 2 of her art pieces from college stolen when they were shipped home via UPS. Package was visibly opened, some contents missing and then hastily re-sealed. She was "reimbursed" but as anyone who does art knows, thats not really that important.

As for FedEX have had average experiences with them.

Overall I would reccomend USPS. With their shipping, tracking, insurance nowadays they work great.
Jkrohn

[kenyg]

We ship UPS alot at work, usually no problems - but I for my own needs, USPS priority mail is usually great - 2-3 days and the price is usually ok.


Ken