shipping euro bumpers

[BDSax]

i have a set i want to sell and was wondering if anyone else has shipped them and how much the cost...

[blunttech]

i have a set i want to sell and was wondering if anyone else has shipped them and how much the cost...

THEY COST 12 DOLLARS TO SHIP

[Farbin Kaiber]

Damn. The guy running the scale must be asleep at the terminal for that price.

[blazing]

It will be much cheaper if you disassemble them and gently fold the rear trim so it all fits inside a reasonable sized box.

[KenC]

I shipped a full set a few years ago. I found the following to be the best method:

Take them completely apart (was a bitch for me bc one of the poorly designed bolts in the rear had rusted up. I went through about 40 of those shitty dremel cutting wheels).
Get an old blanket (I had a uhaul one).
Roll each piece up in the blanket individually (some of the shorter sides can be next to eachother), and put the rubber strips in too.
You should end up with a burrito-esque thing. I then rolled that up in a flat piece of cardboard, and duct taped the shit out of it.

I'm fairly certain that the whole thing ended up being less than $30 via FedEx Ground (mind you I had to take it to an actual FedEx place - not a Mailboxes Etc)

[BDSax]

hahaha, blunts awesome.

i didnt know they came apart. that should make things alittle easier! noe the euro valance is another story. i thought it was going to be like $150 with materials because i shipped a mtech 2 kit and just the rear valance was $105 or something crazy like that.

[KenC]

I shipped a Euro front valence for under $20 through FedEx Ground.

I went to Home Depot and bought a couple 1x2s and made a frame for a box. Then I cut up cardboard panels to fit over and stapeled and taped them all on. Then I used a whole Sunday paper to pad the valence. The package arrived in Ohio from Oregon unscathed.

[BDSax]

thats a good idea, but i w3ould think that would cost alot more than $20. news paper=weight= mor monies

[Coco Savage]

interesting

[Rigmaster]

I shipped a Euro front valence for under $20 through FedEx Ground.

I went to Home Depot and bought a couple 1x2s and made a frame for a box. Then I cut up cardboard panels to fit over and stapeled and taped them all on. Then I used a whole Sunday paper to pad the valence. The package arrived in Ohio from Oregon unscathed.

I can guarantee that whoever accepted that shipment at the shipping place did not rate it properly. They must have charged you for the weight rather than the "DIM" (dimensional) weight. All of the shipping companies use a standard formula for calculating DIM weight, though UPS (and maybe Fedex) uses an Oversize I II or III system, with the oversize surcharges increasing for each higher level.

Your best bet is to make it as small as possible, then take it to a Fedex shipping outlet (Fedex or Fedex Kinko's would be my recommendation- NOT one of the packing/shipping stores). Hope that you get a new clerk, or someone who is too busy and/or lazy to measure the shipment, and if they give you a really good rate- pay for it in CASH. Don't set up an account or bill it to an account- they can and will adjust the rate later once the shipment reaches a sort center or hub and gets reweighed + measured, but if you paid for it at the counter- they can't add to your bill.


You can run the size and weight of the package thru any of the shipping companies' websites to get an accurate cost- knock a few inches off the size and see if it greatly impacts the rate- if it does, then do your best to make the shipment a bit smaller.



Bret.