Posted 2013-12-04 4:00 PM Subject: RE: How do you ship your saddles?
More bootie than waist!
Posts: 18425 Location: Riding Crackhead.
bugsowner - 2013-12-04 3:55 PM I've had 2 saddles shipped to me and both cost around $50 to ship. When I sold and shipped one it cost me near $100. How do you ship?
I use USPS. They've been cheaper than UPS or Fed Ex.
Posted 2013-12-04 5:05 PM Subject: RE: How do you ship your saddles?
I Need a Xanax!
Posts: 2774
I ship through USPS too..its cheaper and faster here than UPS(I am in Tennessee). It usually cost me about $55 insurance included to ship a saddle as long as its not far out on the west coast but I believe shipping is much higher in different zones. I can ship a saddle to Louisiana for about $35 but for some reason(rates are higher there maybe) the same saddle shipped from LA to me in TN cost nearly double that.
Posted 2013-12-05 8:00 AM Subject: RE: How do you ship your saddles?
The One
Posts: 7998 Location: South Georgia
I dont know how anyone does it. By the time I get it in a box large enough to fit without damaging anything, shipping costs, and insurance, it is close to $100.
Posted 2013-12-05 8:22 AM Subject: RE: How do you ship your saddles?
Expert
Posts: 1367 Location: mi
Being able to do things through work helps alot. The last saddle I purchased the seller was quoted $65 plus extra for insure to ship to me at a UPS store. I could do the shipping label through work and it was only $45 with insurance. So I made up the label and mailed it to her and she put it on the box and shipped it. Worked out great. As for boxes when I know I am going to be thinking about selling a saddle I start watching our shipping and recieving docks and start putting word out that I am looking for a bigger box. Have not had to buy one yet. You can be creative and and even put 2 boxes together to make one. Or if it is too big cut it down to make it smaller. and I find rags around the house to wrap up the horn and wedge in by the cantle you just have to be creative to do it on the cheap. Or I steal packing material from stuff we get shipped into work and stuff that in where needed. Sometimes this job really does pay off. :)
Posted 2013-12-05 8:49 AM Subject: RE: How do you ship your saddles?
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Posts: 9992 Location: Kansas
USPS, bubble wrap the horn and anything else you don't want possibly damaged, and pack full of packing peanuts. The box has to be certain dimensions or else you will be charged an extra like $38!!.....found that out the hard way when I grabbed the wrong box and went to ship and it cost me like $80 to ship the saddle
How do you ship your saddles?
