I'm selling a set of tires to another board member. What is the best way to ship them, UPS, etc? How should they be packaged if at all? I appreciate anyone's help.
No packaging needed if they are just tires. I use Fed Ex ground but you should just see who is the cheapest. The USPS might be less money than Fed Ex ground. I do know that Fed Ex ground is less than UPS and they are more reliable and faster.
I usually band pairs of them together with strapping tape. Just slap a label on them and send them off.
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Agreed, Fedex has always been cheaper than UPS shipping tires and/or tires/wheels. Unless the tires a re really wide, banding them in twos will be cheaper. I usually wrap them individually with plastic film covered with some clear packing tape. I do this for two reasons. First it hides the merchandise somewhat to deter thef. They still can see it's a tire, but the size, brand, and condition is questionable. Secondly anyone who handles the tires probably appreciates the plastic overwarp for cleanliness reasons.
Personally I don't care for either UPS or Fedex (try dealing with either regarding a shipping problem). But for tires Fedex is the lesser of the two evils. Why Tirerack uses UPS I don't know, maybe the have a special rate or something.
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better software on the business side, they get like 50% lower prices than you do. I'm a 'silver' account, Tire rack is a 'gold' account, for sure. Silver gets about 33% off, on domestic shipping. Almost nothing on international shipping, as DHL owns the planes. If you want good rates on an international shipment, use DHL. (I mean, flying over an ocean type shipping)
The UPS software makes for MUCH easier shipping. If fed-ex was more organized on the business side of the deal, they'd get lots of the customers that UPS has right now, no doubt.
We don't use UPS because we love them, trust me on that one.
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