# Shipping stuff

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shipping-stuff/69062>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 16, 2001, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shipping-stuff/69062 "2001-06-16T20:50:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shipping-stuff/69062/1 "2001-06-16T20:50:58Z")

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Last year, when I moved out here to sunny SoCal, I left about a quarter of a ton of books, pots, pans, dishes, and miscellaneous boxed up in a friend’s garage. Now, I’m giving him the bookshelves and dining room table, because I just want to deal with it, but I need to figure out how to get the rest of it (properly boxed up and labeled) from Dallas to San Diego while I’m out there visiting week after this.

I’ll be flying and there’s too much to check, so no bringing it with me on the plane. FedEx, UPS, and USPS would all be exhorbitantly expensive.

Suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shipping-stuff/69062/2 "2001-06-16T21:16:09Z")

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You might check with a motor freight company if it’s all going to be boxed up, or perhaps a moving company.

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shipping-stuff/69062/3 "2001-06-18T01:09:32Z")

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[hijack]  
Phouka, are you going to be in Dallas on the 30th? It’d be great if you could make it by Zyada’s for the cookout.  
[/hijack]

I don’t have a clue what is the best way to ship things when UPS is too expensive, but I do have a kid working for a freight forwarding company, I’ll ask him.

Jim

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**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shipping-stuff/69062/4 "2001-06-18T01:39:31Z")

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There are a few shipping companies that ship nationwide we use here at work, besides UPS. Fed Ex and the USPS wouldn’t even ship your boxes; too big and too heavy, you’d have to ship one pan a time.

If you can break your load down into separate boxes(under 100 lbs.) You could ship it UPS. Too expensive you say, even if you ship it UPS Ground?

OK, another option, I suggest you use a commercial only shipping service and have it shipped to your work or a friend’s work. **Associated Freight** is a good company to use. It might take a week or more to get your stuff, but it will be a lot cheaper than UPS. Associated is not the only one, check in your phone book under Commerical Shipping.

Good Luck! 🙂