stave by usps?

[DLH]

This is kinda off subject but I didn't realize ups delivers a lot of usps packages for them I was surprised didn't think they would do that?

[Bevan R.]

I get stuff all the time that was shipped UPS that is delivered by the post office.

[JW_Halverson]

It's called sub-contracting. 

[beetlebailey1977]

I have never used ups and I use usps for staves or wood all the time.

[Justin Snyder]

USPS for me, and my letter carrier loves it. She likes to stop and visit whenever I get wood or rocks. She wants to know all about what kind and where in the world it is from.

[Carson (CMB)]

For usps, the magic number is 84" combined girth and length.  If you keep the combined length and girth under 84" you avoid the oversize surcharge.  For example a stave that had a girth of 12" at the widest spot along its length would not envoke a surcharge if kept under 72".  If I keep it under 84" it is usally around the $10 -15 for parcel.

From USPS website...
"Parcel Post pieces measuring over 84 inches in combined length and girth, but not more than 108 inches in combined length and girth, and weighing less than 20 pounds are mailable at the price equal to that of a 20-pound parcel for the zone to which the parcel is addressed (balloon price)."

Same applies for priority.

[bubby]

yeah, up to 108" combined is the top end of the standard fee, over that it can get spendy, Bub

[Bryce]

i always do ups ground. i know im impatient 

[Del the cat]

A cautionary note for anyone shipping to the UK.
A guy sent me some billets, his wife posted them and for some reason wrote $500 as the value on the paperwork
They arrive in the UK and I get charged 20% of the 'value' as tax before they'd deliver
I manged to claim it back by send of loads of paperwork and letter from the letter explaining the error.
Maybe she meant to write $50, or thought $500 woule be nice for insurance (as if they'd pay out )
Del

[osage outlaw]

Good point Del.  When I send something to Canada, I write craft supplies and am usually very generous with the value, just in the correct direction 

[gstoneberg]

I just sent a yellow stick to Canada yesterday.  It was a very inexpensive stick.   I usually find it costs about twice as much to go to Canada as somewhere in the US.  There's an oriental man that works in our post office that is fascinated that I send staves.  He talked to me for a long time the first time I went through his line.  Now, whenever I come in and he sees me with a stave or bow blank he smiles and mimes somebody drawing a bow.  That starts a lot of conversations for me with the other customers.

George

[crooketarrow]

  I mail a few staves every month way cheaped than UP'S. Here's alittle help I get 4 inch tubs from the center of rugs at a carbet store. I mail my staves this way for years. That about right GEORGE it's almost dobble it's also a killer to mail to the west coast for me in WV.