RedGarnet222

I will check into fed ex. Thanks for the info jaylee.

Suzan Larrimore

I'm not attacking , just using her post to vent. Thanks for reading this.

We are a postal family. I try to stay quiet most of the time because I know alot of people have had some bad experiences with the postal service. That said I do want to say that the good old USPS is broke. Revenue is down. The big businesses that contribute most of the delivery mail are not sending out mail to customers. Alot of people no longer use the USPS to pay their bills. When you don't use a service their costs don't decline they actually increase to make up for the shortage.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you want your costs tostay down. Use to USPS more often for everyday mail. Where else in the world can you send a letter 3 thousand miles for only 44 cents? If you have a loved one overseas in the military and you mail them something to an APO address that same 44 cents still gets it there for you. 44 cent stamps are still the cheapest in the world

Honey

I really watch for free shipping when I buy online and take advantage of it whenever I can. If it means combining orders with my friends, so be it. I hate to see how much it is going to cost me to ship the downey quilts back as there are 12 of them in a pretty good sized box. I think they have all gone nuts with shipping. Also, be really careful on ebay. Some sellers lower the price on an item and then charge you outrageous shipping. I've had that happen.

patricej

i don't know what the packages measurements or weight are, so i don't know whether or not to agree that the cost is high.

i do know that steaming about it here isn't going to change anything.

also, we forget to sit down and think about how much it would cost us to take something to the destination ourselves. (double that, of course, because you have to get home again.)

just because we don't like the cost of something, it isn't automatically unfair. it's just more than we want to pay.

BellaBoo

My thoughts exactly!

I mailed a small package to a person living 10 miles from me, because I did not want to drive there, I knew I'd have to spend at least an hour visiting with the person once there, and it was quick and easy to stick the items in a flat rate box and hand it to the postman and be done with it.

bakermom

What you say is very true. We do get a lot for .44.
Many years ago my mom accidently dropped the envelope with her social security money in it in a drop box with some letters. When she realized what had happened the next morning she callled me in tears asking if I would go to the P.O. near my house where she had done this to see if anything could be done. I explained what had happened but was told the mail from the night before had been picked up. They took her info and said they would make some calls but didn't offer much else. Later that day Mom recieved a call from the central P.O. Someone had found the envelope and turned it in to the superviser. She had to drive there (about 45 min. away)to get it . The money was all there.
I always think of this when I hear gripes about the post office.

SherryLea

I did not intend to offend anyone I just would of loved to get the stuff to these ladies as they seemed to have really wanted them, but didn't have a lot of money. I do not ship very many things so I am very new to this. I am very sorry if I said something out of line

Suzan Larrimore

SherryLea, I took no offense with you at all. I was venting about people in general knocking the post office. I guess because I'm part of the postal family I'm a little sensitive. I'm very sorry I did not mean to hurt you.

patricej

ooook, group hug ... a chorus of kumbaya ...

pass the s'mores, please

back to the fun! :-) ;-)

SherryLea

Thank You I know how bad the economy is right now and how hard the post office has been hit with the internet so I do understand. I wasn't hurt just don't want to ever hurt anyones feelings on this forum as this is the greatest bunch of people I have ever known. I am gong to the post office Tuesday and see what the flat rate box looks like and see if maybe 2 boxes sent this way would be cheaper than one box ups. Thanks Again
Hugs to All