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Old 04-04-2006, 02:31 PM
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I have a set of 17x9.5/18x10.5 Z06 wheels that I need to ship. Whats the cheapest way to ship these wheels?
FedEx? USPS? UPS?
Old 04-04-2006, 02:56 PM
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I've had to ship wheels USPS, my aunt is a postmaster and she told me to send the wheels in wrapped in pairs, more weight but will save you money
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Originally Posted by GregWS6&z28
I've had to ship wheels USPS, my aunt is a postmaster and she told me to send the wheels in wrapped in pairs, more weight but will save you money
Thats how I received mine, strapped as pairs.

Screw UPS, they are so expensive now. CHeck FedEx and DHL, I have the best luck with them, and they all have online shipping quotes.
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Originally Posted by ROCNDAV
Thats how I received mine, strapped as pairs.

Screw UPS, they are so expensive now. CHeck FedEx and DHL, I have the best luck with them, and they all have online shipping quotes.
He said USPS not UPS.

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When shipping them USPS do you just carry them into the post office and tell them to ship them.
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thats all I did, I had boxes, wrapped them together with tape and they put them on the scale
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Originally Posted by onyx_rock
He said USPS not UPS.

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When shipping them USPS do you just carry them into the post office and tell them to ship them.
I was referring to FBDYLVR, he was asking which is the cheapest method.

I sell a lot of stuff on ebay and I often find this is the cheapest to most expensive in this order:

FedEx
DHL
USPS
UPS

but it can vary due to weight and size. I have all four of them on a shortcut and regularly compare prices when someone needs something shipped.
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Fedex sucks, trust me i use to work there and they didnt care about packages. i drove the cart around that carried them to the conveyor belt and they would be thrown and damaged beyond belief sometimes. i always went through UPS or USPS.
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Thanks guys. Looks like I'll be using FedEx and shipping them in two huge boxes.
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I worked at UPS and still have buddies that do. Believe me its the same there.
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Well i got some ET streets shipped Fed Ex and the seller wrapped them together with string/rope and when they got to my house there was 1 tire the other one was lost.
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when i shipped mine i priced everywhere and DHL was the cheapest i sent my rims in pairs
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WITHOUT TIRES lol

Probably try Fed-Ex... and I think packages get treated like that at all of these companies based on some stuff I have received over the years
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FedEx charged me an additional $10 to ship a tire because it wasn't in a box..so that's something to remember.
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Fed Ex declined shipping bare tires.

But i bought some from a guy on here and he shipped them bare through Fed ex.................

Bastards.

$68 To ship 2 275/50/15s. Thats ******* Bullshit.
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yeah fedex when i worked there shipped bare tires all the time, tons of them as a matter of fact.




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