Here is today's lesson: I had to ship 100 After the Ball CDs to the Irish Rep. I was about to go to the UPS Store to do so, because a package of that size at the USPS has to go priority and it's way too expensive. I had to ship Emily Skinner 150 CDs and that cost a little over $100 at UPS, via ground - priority would have been only slightly more but didn't include insurance. So, that's how I shipped them and I split the shipping cost with her. The only other USPS alternative is media mail which isn't an alternative, at least not for me.
Today, on a whim, I went to Fed Ex and asked them how much it would cost to ship this heavy box of 100 CDs via Fed Ex Ground. The cost? WITH insurance, $23. I've said it before, but UPS has turned into the biggest joke in the world and why ANYONE would ever ship via them is now a complete mystery to me. I've shipped several big packages via them and that waste of money is now making me very angry. So, from now on it's Fed Ex Ground for any big packages, unless I can fit the stuff into the flat rate priority boxes.
A big fat raspberry to UPS and my fervant wish that they dry up and blow away.