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FE Power Forums => Non-FE Discussion Forum => Topic started by: c9zx on August 10, 2025, 11:47:31 AM
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I' wanting to ship heads and an intake at rates less than USPS or UPS "walk in " price. Does anyone have suggestions? A friend suggested Pirate Ship. Anyone have experience with them or others? Thanks, Chuck (S)
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Do you have a friend or relative that works for a company that ships and receives things?
If you can find a company with a commercial shipping account, you can likely ship using their discount.
You do ALL the packaging, address verification, figuring out insurance and everything else...make it so they literally place the items on the scale, enter the address, done.
If you are shipping to a residential address, you will pay more than shipping to a commercial/business address.
If you have the shipping hub of the carrier you use local to you, you can ship from and receive at the shipping hub to save money.
If you can make three less heavy boxes instead of shipping one large, "overweight" box you might be able to save money...do the math on this to figure out exactly what the rates will be.
Very often you can save money when shipping boxes that are below their "overweight" limits because the rates increase a lot when shipping overweight.
If the boxes are smaller and can be handled easily, and you are shipping from and to high traffic areas, you can often find an independent carrier/trucker who will take the deliver the items as an added cartage to the trip they are already taking.
All the work for this is on you though, so be ready to answer questions and assist them in the process.
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thru my work, I do a fair amount of business with ch robinson. I will ck with my contact there tomorrow to see if they can be of any help
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A big thumbs up for Pirate Ship. Their site is very easy to use and price discounts are real.
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Here in southwest Oklahoma I have found that Beaver Freight has been the most reasonable for the last 25 year's for me.
Give them a call or go to their website for a quote.
Greg
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you can contact Adam Schwartz at Adam.Schwarz@chrobinson.com
not sure how rates will compare to others, and not sure how shipments to and from residential addresses might affect rates, but it could
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Thanks for all of the replies everyone, it is appreciated. A friend found a good solution for me. Chuck (S)
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Pirate ship! but use paypal to pay vs CC , i had my card number hacked not long , the next day after first using pirate ship. Could be not related but to close for me not to consider!