USPS is crooked

[JoeyInCali]

Here is a solution....I ship my cues in pvc pipe 2-3" diameter ---take a 4 foot piece cut it down to 38 inches ----buy 2 end caps and pvc glue.....glue the one end cap on the pipe...place the cue inside make sure it cant move with packing material around it, pack the 6-8 " free space with carboard and glue the other end cap on it...mark a line on the outside of the end with the carboard filler to show ur customer where to cut the cap off to remove the cue. I ship my cues thru the usps this way....insured....no problems so far.
If u try to ship them this way thru ups or fedex they will require you to place the pvc tube in a carboard triangular shipping box...

And that looks like a pipe bomb.

The cues were in a hefty case .
None were damaged.
The whole package went missing .

 

[jkan101]

Doesnt matter if it looks like a pipe bomb or not it gets to its destination in one piece without being taken apart...

 

[desi2960]

101

That will not stop the stealing. And getting an insurance refund is a 50 50 crap shoot. I dont know what pvc you use, i use thin wall sewer pipe, inside the triangle box and in 20 years i have only had 2 broken. 1/2 dozen stolen.

 

[skins]

Look into business shipping insurers like Shipsurance... Not sure what their minimum limit of packages is per month but it's worth a call. Joel Hercek uses some sort of Marine Insurance...

 

[pescadoman]

UPS... 5,000.00 PACKAGE. Yah 5k

It was a supercharger for a 4.6 ford Cobra.

NEVER SAW A TRUCK. Just disappeared. THANK GOD I insured it. Even then, it took months to recover the money.

 

[johnnysd]

I sometimes wonder if it is better to just insure for $500 and make sure nothing on the box suggests its a cue. Getting full insurance offers some protection but it also seems to me to almost be like attaching a blinking red neon sign to the outside of the package saying "high value cue inside- STEAL ME"