Shipping speakers

Definitely don’t use UPS. It’s guaranteed they will damage your speakers and then string you along several months until they 100% screw you out of any payment towards fixing the damage they caused out of sheer employee apathy. I’m still soured and this happened to me several months ago :).

Speaking of UPS, a tangential story.

Somebody was sending me a package, and they chose UPS. So I arranged for pickup at the UPS center, instead of having it ride around in a hot truck all day.

So the website showed they opened at 9 a.m., which was great! I got there a few minutes after 9, the parking lot was empty. There was a big sign in the window, "We don’t care what the website says, we don’t open until 10." I couldn’t sit around for an hour waiting for them, so the 16 mile round trip to their place was wasted, and I had to go back in the afternoon, another 16 mile round trip.

So as parker65310 is still soured after several months, I’m still soured after a couple of years. I’ve never used UPS after that.

Todd Currie

www.teamww.com

Phone: 860-386-6586

Fax: 860-386-6589

Fun fact about UPS:  If you ship from a UPS Distribution Center they have there own insurance but if you use a franchise outlet or a UPS Store they have other insurers which causes most to the claim problems. This information is slightly dated but can be verified with a quick call to UPS proper. 

Get a quote from U Ship.You might get the speakers there in one day.
You can supervise the loading and the buyer at the other end can supervise the unloading and get them delivered directly to the desired location.It would be a good idea to wrap them in plastic and specify the fragile nature of the speakers and that you will need them wrapped in blankets and secured within the truck or trailer ...and take a lot of pictures. Knowing how these shippers work your speakers will among other items to be dropped off,that is how you get a good price from these independent shippers. You might get them delivered for two hundred dollars or even less if you get someone who is going that route and has room.I would call it an option,might even call it an adventure.Good Luck.