Some shipping discounts ending for bulk

[McGee]

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Just saw on the news...

United Parcel Service Inc. is telling dozens of retailers it intends to do away with big discounts on oversize packages this holiday season and, in the case of some retailers, year round, according to people familiar with the matter.

The move could hit consumers hard—forcing them to get their items at a store or absorb some of the shipping charges of more than $57.

WSJ

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

It's called "surge pricing" and it's about time.

 

[jaker]

What someone up stairs saw what it actually looks like in a ups truck

 

[Indecisi0n]

Good. No more Lazy boyz for grandma that can barely move. The look on their faces is priceless when it shows up. It's as if they expect it was going to be the size of the image on the computer screen.

 

[upschuck]

Question is, what is going to be "oversized"?

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

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Just saw on the news...

Which means we'll lose much of that volume. Which also means the bean counters will have another excuse to cut routes.

 

[tapatio75]

Maybe I won't have to lift that 125# grill 4 times anymore, 2 delivered damaged and 2 to pick them up. Needless to say, I told one of the office sups that the second one was damaged too, but she still wanted it delivered

 

[Wally]

I wonder if we will still get that stuff at the higher rates? Where is it going to go?

 

[Catatonic]

Question is, what is going to be "oversized"?

Nothing on @Gumby ... that's for sure.

Maybe @Froggy's eyes.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Nothing on @Gumby ... that's for sure.

You are wrong. My belly is.

 

[upschuck]

You are wrong. My belly is.

I thought you would go elsewhere.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I thought you would go elsewhere.

Nope. Can't tell a lie. Maybe a good fib.

 

[Wally]

Gumby has a belly? You learn something new every day.

 

[box_beeyotch]

This won't make us lose volume. It will increase revenue though. Now days people will pay anything for convenience and what's more convenient than someone carrying your 100 pound treadmill up 3 flights of stairs to your door.

 

[Shifting Contents]

This won't make us lose volume. It will increase revenue though. Now days people will pay anything for convenience and what's more convenient than someone carrying your 100 pound treadmill up 3 flights of stairs to your door.

Laughing as I "accidentally" drop it and watch it cartwheel all the way back down.

 

[box_beeyotch]

Laughing as I "accidentally" drop it and watch it cartwheel all the way back down.

DR mailbox.

 

[Jackburton]

This won't make us lose volume. It will increase revenue though. Now days people will pay anything for convenience and what's more convenient than someone carrying your 100 pound treadmill up 3 flights of stairs to your door.

Someone carrying it back down and you getting a refund after the 30 days free trial.

 

[jaker]

The bad I see is the call tags we will get to pick up those big items after someone else delivered it

I can't tell you how many call tags I get from something FedEx delivered

 

[box_beeyotch]

The bad I see is the call tags we will get to pick up those big items after someone else delivered it

I can't tell you how many call tags I get from something FedEx delivered

Its always big irregular crap too

 

[By The Book]

The bad I see is the call tags we will get to pick up those big items after someone else delivered it

I can't tell you how many call tags I get from something FedEx delivered

Now we will be able to see shelf 8. I thought those big heavy ones made us money.