[SunRescue] Why would you need something like this?

[Ken Hansen]

What I have noticed with overseas shipments is that the package will sit in
the US for a number of days before it makes it's voyage across the sea.

USPS would probably have been a better choice for literature - their rates
are pretty reasonable for some international shipments. UPS is not really
set up to handle international shipments. For domestic, if you can get to
the service center (or set up a FedEx Ground Account), they can be cheaper
than UPS dround in many cases.

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods at weird.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 3:20 AM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Why would you need something like this?


> [ On Monday, April 30, 2001 at 00:43:49 (-0500), Bill Bradford wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Why would you need something like this?
> >
> > Speaking of shipping to other countries, I went to go ship a 15-lb
> > box of old Solaris media and compilers to a guy in the UK yesterday.
> >
> > "That will be $120, UPS ground"
>
> That's because it's an oxymoron.  In case you hadn't noticed there is no
> "ground" between the USA and the UK over which UPS can drive their
> little brown trucks!  :-)
>
> (and I don't think they've got a contract to ship stuff on the weekly
> Titanic runs either! :=) [though seriously I don't know how the likes of
> a courier company might ship "slowly", and more importantly cheaply,
> overseas]
>
> US Postal Service rates to overseas are probably much more favourable
> (though whenever I stand in line at the Canadian Postal outlets watching
> people pay for parcels overseas to non-European destinations I have to
> wonder), and even DHL might have a non-rush rate that's more
> reasonable....