Need Advice On Large Package Shipping

[jaytex1969]

I have to get a pinata from Texas to the east coast.

It doesn't weigh anything but it's taking a 3 foot cubed box.

Shipping a box like that through conventional means is an arm and a leg.

I'd like to find a way to spend only an arm. Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[sablebrush52]

I have to get a pinata from Texas to the east coast.

It doesn't weigh anything but it's taking a 3 foot cubed box.

Shipping a box like that through conventional means is an arm and a leg.

I'd like to find a way to spend only an arm. Any help appreciated.

Thanks.


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Helium balloons?

 

[rmpeeps]

I have to get a pinata from Texas to the east coast.

It doesn't weigh anything but it's taking a 3 foot cubed box.

Shipping a box like that through conventional means is an arm and a leg.

I'd like to find a way to spend only an arm. Any help appreciated.

Thanks.


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Call it infrastructure and get some alternative funding.

 

[BROBS]

I have to get a pinata from Texas to the east coast.

It doesn't weigh anything but it's taking a 3 foot cubed box.

Shipping a box like that through conventional means is an arm and a leg.

I'd like to find a way to spend only an arm. Any help appreciated.

Thanks.


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[BROBS]

What’s the weight of the box?

 

[aquadoc]

Shippo.com

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

in past I have shipped cars from the US to Old Continent, this'll require some crazy money ,2000$ + import duties

 

[jaytex1969]

What’s the weight of the box?

I haven't assembled it and weighed it yet but it has to be under 10 pounds.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Have you actually talked to your Postmaster about costs? I bet it's not going to coast as much as you think. I mailed my old Mt Bike to a friend in Texas, and in working with my PM on how to disassemble it to get it to fit into a flat box, it ended up only costing me about $30. To me, that's not quite an arm.

 

[scloyd]

From the USPS website postage calculator:

Houston to NYC....10 pounds....box 24" x 24" x 24" (I randomly selected Houston and NYC)
_____________________________________________________________________________________________

Large Package, weight 10 lb 0 oz (4.536 kg), mailed on April 14
from HOUSTON TX 77001 to NEW YORK NY 10007

USPS Retail Ground®​

Select a Delivery Option	Expected Delivery Day	Retail	Click-N-Ship®
Normal Delivery Time	Tue, Apr 20	$166.60	Not available

I'd take it to a UPS store and let them pack it and ship it.

 

[mso489]

Yes, talk to the postmaster and see what he/she can do for you. If possible, give it plenty of time, since rushing packages gets expensive fast.

 

[bullet08]

Take the pinata apart, ship it flat and tell them it's pre-smacked for easy of use. Or include assembly instruction.

 

[BROBS]

Take the pinata apart, ship it flat and tell them it's pre-smacked for easy of use. Or include assembly instruction.

Cut it in half, flip the one side so it nests in the other , and box half the size.
then tape it back together. Haha

 

[scloyd]

From the USPS website postage calculator:

Houston to NYC....10 pounds....box 24" x 24" x 24" (I randomly selected Houston and NYC)
_____________________________________________________________________________________________

Large Package, weight 10 lb 0 oz (4.536 kg), mailed on April 14
from HOUSTON TX 77001 to NEW YORK NY 10007

USPS Retail Ground®​

Select a Delivery Option	Expected Delivery Day	Retail	Click-N-Ship®
Normal Delivery Time	Tue, Apr 20	$166.60	Not available

I'd take it to a UPS store and let them pack it and ship it.

I tried the USPS postage calculator again with a package weight of 5 pounds...still $166.60.

I changed the dimensions of the package to 36" x 36" x 36" and it states:
According to the dimensions entered, your package is too large to be mailed.

Good luck Jay.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I tried the USPS postage calculator again with a package weight of 5 pounds...still $166.60.

I changed the dimensions of the package to 36" x 36" x 36" and it states:
According to the dimensions entered, your package is too large to be mailed.

Good luck Jay.

I don't know how much I would trust this. I use USPS for everything from mailing bikes to anvils to large metalworking equipment, and I always go inside and talk to the Postmaster. They usually know how to get the lowest rate, and I have never paid anything like $166 to mail something. They genuinely want you to get the lowest rate, because the reason stuff is priced at higher rates is the "headache factor" for them.

 

[scloyd]

I don't know how much I would trust this. I use USPS for everything from mailing bikes to anvils to large metalworking equipment, and I always go inside and talk to the Postmaster. They usually know how to get the lowest rate, and I have never paid anything like $166 to mail something. They genuinely want you to get the lowest rate, because the reason stuff is priced at higher rates is the "headache factor" for them.

Yeah, I thought it seemed a bit high.

I have used the USPS postage calculator in the past and it was accurate, those were smaller packages, not huge boxes.

 

[scloyd]

@jaytex1969
Keep us updated. Let us know what it cost.

 

[jaytex1969]

Keep us updated.

After several days of unsatisfactory research, I decided it was cheaper and more rewarding to commission an artist local to my sister to make and deliver a pinata.

Now, I have a large, pink elephant pinata in my garage.

I think I'll fill it with plastic liquor miniatures and take it to a bike rally end of May...

 

[instymp]

After several days of unsatisfactory research, I decided it was cheaper and more rewarding to commission an artist local to my sister to make and deliver a pinata.

Now, I have a large, pink elephant pinata in my garage.

I think I'll fill it with plastic liquor miniatures and take it to a bike rally end of May...



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And after several adult beverages, beat the heck out of it.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Fill it with ennerdale flake and take it to your next pipe club meet