Help with shipping

[reefertank]

Who do you use and I know cost vary but any pointers???

 

[Crabs McJones]

From my personal experience I've had much better luck with FedEx over UPS as far as delays and delivery times.

 

[reefertank]

What is your average charge when I did an estimate on FedEx it was over 100 does that sound right?

 

[Crabs McJones]

What is your average charge when I did an estimate on FedEx it was over 100 does that sound right?

If you don't have an account with them it can be pricey to overnight ship things. I know the last time I priced out a shipping rate they wanted 65 dollars to overnight ship one coral from Wisconsin to Florida

 

[reefertank]

If you don't have an account with them it can be pricey to overnight ship things. I know the last time I priced out a shipping rate they wanted 65 dollars to overnight ship one coral from Wisconsin to Florida

My work has an account maybe I will try it through them

 

[jd371]

My work has an account maybe I will try it through them

Yeah, ship using the company acct if you can. I ship bagels to my brother in San Francisco once and a while ( he can't find good bagels there) and ship using my company's acct. We have both UPS and FedEx accts but use FedEx more so there's more savings if I use them.

 

[zyer1090]

A big factor is also what are you shipping lps, sps, softies? If you are shipping hardy corals you can also use USPS priority its much cheaper and takes usually around 2 days to deliver.

 

[LiveRockmia]

Agreed with previous poster. Usps ships flat rate 2-day service to anywhere in the u.s