best shippers?


trying to arrange shipment of revel speakers
any experience with freight carriers who do a good job??

thanks
iverson
DON'T USE OVERNITE TRANSPORTATION CO. THEY PUT A BIG HOLE On THE SHIPPING CRATE WITH A FORKLIFT DAMAGING A $12000 SPEAKERS AND OFFERED TO PAY ME $15 FOR THE DAMAGED. WHAT AN INSULT.
FedexGround and UPS Ground are the worst in my experience. A real crapshoot with the odds worse with FedexGround. I'd agree also that you will have to fight tooth and nail to get them to pay attention to an insurance claim and most will give up for the time and frustration. I do think a lot of the problems with the ground shippers come from poor packing. Your best insurance, if you must go ground (usually a financial decision) is excellent packing and double-boxing if you must use ground shippers. Peanuts are NOT good packing material for heavy items. Bubble-wrap (large bubbles), air-packs, and solid foam sheets go a whole lot further, and even still may not be enough. Double-box EVERYTHING fragile with plenty of good padding. I've had great experience with USPS Priority Mail, and have never had to file an insurance claim with them. Plenty of experience to back that up. I'd also second Forwardair as a great option for shipping large, heavy, or otherwise awkaward items. I've had only good experiences with them. They are a bit of a hassle in terms of payment (certified payment for exact amount only in my area), and they are a terminal-to-terminal freight company with access only in some cities (see their website forwardair.com). FedexGround is abysmal in my experience. I just had to say that once more, which doesn't approach the amount of times they've screwed up or delivered an abused box and or broken contents to me.

Marco
I can't recommend FedEx...they absolutely destroyed a pair of speakers I sent to this guy across the country. When I packed them, I had all the original packaging, including all the styrofoam and boxes.

They got there in pieces. I mean, this guy sent me photos, and they were literally crumbled into tiny little pieces. HUGE floorstanders, just completely destroyed.

It took forever, and it was an enormous pain in the ass, but I finally got FedEx to honor the insurance claim.

Never again.
DHL gets my vote, they delivered 2 huge 200 lb boxes from Europe to me safely. But the delivery woman was too weak to bring the boxes into my home, she left them on the drive way...
I second Mwilsons comment...I've never recieved anything damaged from UPS or Fed Ex, but they were small items and packed well...I think that the packing job is just as important as the shipper...but If I buy something big & valuable, I just hope it's from somewhere either conveniently close, or somewhere I want to visit cause it'll be road trip time.

just my 2c

Ellery
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