Is it standard to pay shipping and a 8$ fuel surcharge? It still beat the 40$shipping that ups nailed me for last rod i sold!
Is it standard to pay shipping and a 8$ fuel surcharge? It still beat the 40$shipping that ups nailed me for last rod i sold!
With the price of fuel going up you will see most deliveries start charging a fuel or delivery "surcharge" until freight rates go up.
Pretty common practice for shipping companies. They sure aren't going to suck up the added gas costs.
Modified by hunt22-250 at 6:24 PM 3/12/2012
Every facet of our economy is wrapped around fuel prices. Food, Gas, heating oil, oil changes, farms, list goes for miles. Wanna implode our country from the inside out...make it so fuel prices goes way high....its getting there fast.
I worked for Fed Ex Freight and Southeastern Freight Lines as a local driver for many years. On a local route, a driver can burn up 60-80 gal diesel easy a day. That is just one leg of the delivery. You have a driver picking up freight, using diesel in alot of cases in the forklifts to consolidate the freight to different trailers, road drivers taking it to the next or final terminal. You see the circle. Trucking companies are getting killed by high fuel costs. Add to that ..you know who...not long ago buddied up with the Mexican Prez and allowed the final cog of the NAFTA bill....Mexican truckers are now allowed all over the US. This not only costs over 100,000 US trucking jobs (OOIDA resource), safetly on the roads, but they will fuel up in Mexico before coming here meaning alot less fuel taxes paid for miles driven. A giant chitball is rolling downhill and us average Joe's is at the bottom with our hands covering our heads.
Guess who doesn't hit you with a fuel surcharge? The USPS!
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<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by SkidMark »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">I worked for Fed Ex Freight and Southeastern Freight Lines as a local driver for many years. On a local route, a driver can burn up 60-80 gal diesel easy a day. That is just one leg of the delivery. You have a driver picking up freight, using diesel in alot of cases in the forklifts to consolidate the freight to different trailers, road drivers taking it to the next or final terminal. You see the circle. Trucking companies are getting killed by high fuel costs. Add to that ..you know who...not long ago buddied up with the Mexican Prez and allowed the final cog of the NAFTA bill....Mexican truckers are now allowed all over the US. This not only costs over 100,000 US trucking jobs (OOIDA resource), safetly on the roads, but they will fuel up in Mexico before coming here meaning alot less fuel taxes paid for miles driven. A giant chitball is rolling downhill and us average Joe's is at the bottom with our hands covering our heads.
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I work for a Freight company and we have been adding a fuel charge since 5 yrs ago and our business is still going strong.
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by Basscatfrank »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Guess who doesn't hit you with a fuel surcharge? The USPS!</td></tr></table>
There you go haters.I'm still in awe that I can send a an envelope across country for the price they charge..Pretty good deal for the money..
Dale Sinclair original
I could make the USPS very profitable if given a chance...but many here would not like the way I did it. That is a different topic all together. Back on fuel surcharge message
i work for ABF frt and they have been doing that for a few yrs,just about every frt co does the same thing.
I used to be an owner/operator. Those guys are getting reamed. Some companies that these guys are leased to pay them fuel surchage...some don't. Those who have their own broker license and do not use a company to haul for..they are at the mercy of the company to give them extra. Now factor in the Mexican drivers and they have no where near the overhead our guys do...our guys are at the plate...trying to hit a curve ball with both hands tied behind their backs.
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by Basscatfrank »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Guess who doesn't hit you with a fuel surcharge? The USPS!</td></tr></table>
If you dont mind waiting forever
"I see dead people"
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by SkidMark »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">I could make the USPS very profitable if given a chance...but many here would not like the way I did it. That is a different topic all together. Back on fuel surcharge message
The first people you would have to piss off would be the union. Then run it like a real business
"I see dead people"
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There you go haters.
Yeah! pretty good deal considering USPS only looses 8 billion of our tax payer dollars each year doing it.
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by TightLip »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
The first people you would have to piss off would be the union. Then run it like a real business
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And there's the rub. You cannot run it as you would a typical business. The Postal Service is mandated to provide universal service to every address in the United States. If it was your everyday business you would either raise the price or discontinue service to areas that were not profitable. That means if you have a Grandma that lives ten miles down a dirt road you would have to pay a lot more than 45 cents to send her a birthday card, that is if a private company would even go there at all. Case in point, the Postal Service delivers what is called the "last mile", making the actual delivery to many addresses that Fedex and UPS won't because they find it too unprofitable. I'm sure some private enterprise may get some aspects of it done faster, but at what cost?
Be careful what you wish for, you just may get it.
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<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by TightLip »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
The first people you would have to piss off would be the union. Then run it like a real business
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<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by mxmike »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
Yeah! pretty good deal considering USPS only looses 8 billion of our tax payer dollars each year doing it.
Wrong. The Postal Service uses no taxpayer funds.
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Wrong. The Postal Service uses no taxpayer funds. </td></tr></table>
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The U.S. Postal Service more than doubled its losses in fiscal year 2010, despite cutting billions of dollars in expenses and trimming its staff.
The Postal Service said its net loss totaled $8.5 billion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. That compares to a loss of $3.8 billion the prior year.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/1...x.htm
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by TightLip »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
If you dont mind waiting forever</td></tr></table>
A package shipped Priority Mail is generally delivered pretty much anywhere in the US in 2-3 days...a lot faster than UPS/FedEx services I've dealt with lately.
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Yeah! pretty good deal considering USPS only looses 8 billion of our tax payer dollars each year doing it.
How's that?
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