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RE: Shipping Furniture - jteneyck - 04-18-2025
(04-18-2025, 12:20 PM)EightFingers Wrote: You might verify how that insurance works. Determining value is where the problem is. I shipped some wood bowls I turned and one arrived cracked. They would not accept the value I placed on it since there was no “receipt”. Payment was denied
Yes, you have to prove the value of what was shipped for anything beyond the standard insurance offered by the carriers. Sales receipts will prove the value for items you sell. For a gift that gets harder but should be doable by showing the cost of comparable items from commercial vendors. I guess a provable work around is to have your "customer" send you a check, just don't cash it. If it gets damaged, that's your receipt. If you have to cash it to prove it's valid, so be it. Just send a return check to refund the money.
John
RE: Shipping Furniture - EightFingers - 04-21-2025
John, that’s a good workaround for this case. My problem was shipping things to galleries for them to sell
RE: Shipping Furniture - jteneyck - 04-21-2025
(04-21-2025, 02:42 PM)EightFingers Wrote: John, that’s a good workaround for this case. My problem was shipping things to galleries for them to sell
There has to be a solution for this. I would think many other people ship stuff to galleries. You might get some help if you have a way of contacting some of them. Or talking with the galleries directly for their advice.
John
RE: Shipping Furniture - Hank Knight - 04-21-2025
At the risk of telling you what you may already know, ,"LTL" means "Less Than Truckload." LTL Shippers contract to ship individual items that are combined to make up a full trailer load. Some shippers ("TL" shippers) only contract for a full truckload shipment.
RE: Shipping Furniture - EightFingers - 04-24-2025
(04-21-2025, 05:48 PM)jteneyck Wrote: There has to be a solution for this. I would think many other people ship stuff to galleries. You might get some help if you have a way of contacting some of them. Or talking with the galleries directly for their advice.
John
Been fighting that for over ten years now. Finally gave up on insurance and just pack best I can and hope. Fortunately, breakage has been low. All the artists I’ve discussed this with come back with one thing, pack well
RE: Shipping Furniture - kencombs - 04-27-2025
(04-24-2025, 12:25 PM)EightFingers Wrote: Been fighting that for over ten years now. Finally gave up on insurance and just pack best I can and hope. Fortunately, breakage has been low. All the artists I’ve discussed this with come back with one thing, pack well
maybe your retail business name should 'sell' to your LLC who contracts with the gallery?
RE: Shipping Furniture - RPE1 - 04-28-2025
(04-14-2025, 10:49 PM)Don_M Wrote: This is not strictly speaking a woodworking question and perhaps some of you that build furniture as a business might be able to help. I am building a small console for my daughter. She is in New York - I am in the SF bay area. Any thoughts on how to cost effectively ship a single piece of furniture? It is about 53”l x 24”h x 18”d. I recognize that your basic moving co. could handle but I suspect that would be quite expensive. Thanks
Try U Shiip. My daughter uses it. It is a place where people bid against eachother to haul your stuff.
RE: Shipping Furniture - Don_M - 05-01-2025
(04-17-2025, 06:15 PM)jteneyck Wrote: I use Pirate Ship for most everything I ship. I entered box dimensions of 59 x 29 x 23 and weighing 100 lbs. From San Diego to Albany the price is $747 if you use UPS directly, but only $351 using UPS through Pirate Ship. I would add insurance, for sure, which will add just a few dollars.
Pirate Ship. Highly recommended.
John
So just a quick update on this. I ended up going w/ Pirate Ship – they seemed to have access to the best rates. Also, some of the other sites directed me to FedEx – which would not have been a bad option, but due to size/weight of item it would have had to been on a pallet and shipped thru their freight operation as well as dropped off at their nearest freight shipping center (just more work/effort on my part). With Pirate Ship I was able to ship using UPS’s normal parcel service since package was less than 150 lbs. (over that then would have had to use UPS’s 3rd party freight service provider). In addition, UPS was very easy to work with – vs. FedEx who just wasn’t very clear on the shipping options. They couldn’t even provide me with specifics on the pallet dimensions, which I would have had to make myself (another cost) due to the particular dimensions of the parcel.
I also wanted to use a "reputable" service provider (some of the sites referred me to cos. i was not familiar with) so Fedex/UPS were preferable.
Thru PS the shipping charge was $265 vs. over $600 if booked directly thru UPS – so over 50% less! (and IMO very reasonable for x-country shipping). The entire process went very smoothly although there was one slight hiccup with scheduling the P/U thru PS. They offered this option (which I tried to use) – but it never was properly conveyed to UPS and so I had to reschedule the P/U directly thru UPS ($14 vs. $5 thru PS). However, PS immediately credited the P/U charge back to be – so good on them.
I built my own custom packaging – used a sheet of 1/2'” OSB as the base/platform, then double walled cardboard sheets to build the packaging and wrapped the entire cabinet in 2” th. HD foam. I think it turned out pretty good. But we'll see how the delivery goes ! (Scheduled for delivery tomorrow - hopefully it ends up n one piece!)
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And thanks to John for PS suggestion.
RE: Shipping Furniture - jteneyck - 05-01-2025
Happy to hear it worked out for a reasonable price, Don. I just sent a small package today with them. Through UPS direct, over $22. UPS through Pirate Ship, $6.50. The savings can be really dramatic.
That's a really well-made box, so it should get there in great shape.
John
RE: Shipping Furniture - joe1086 - 05-01-2025
Been using Pirate Ship for about a year. Dramatic savings is spot on..usually at least half the cost of going thru UPS direct. Just sent a small package Baltimore to NYC, arrives next day, $6.50, normally $20+.