seyms
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posted on November 26, 2004 05:24:38 PM new
Went to ship a 11.65lb package via UPS ground from the local MBE.(They gather up UPS shipments in their store and the UPS truck makes a pickup). Package is already boxed up so I don't need their boxing skills. I had checked the UPS site and the cost was $9.55. The MBE guy states $17.55 and claims his scale says 12+lbs. I've had words with him before and took this opportunity to add to the list and drove the box over to the local UPS building and paid the $9.55. Has anyone else had such an experience with MBE?
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glassgrl
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posted on November 26, 2004 05:32:59 PM new
Sign up with UPS yourself and print your own postage. That way you can drop it off at MBE and not have to pay the MBE expenses. Plus you can get some nifty free printing labels. If you don't have a laser printer you can get some of the stick on plastic envelopes and use your desk jet for labels.
"It is only with the heart one sees rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Antoine de Saint Exupery
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Twelvepole
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posted on November 26, 2004 05:35:39 PM new
MBE is a business and needs to make a profit also.
People seem to forget that.
AIN'T LIFE GRAND... 
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jennylynng
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posted on November 26, 2004 06:49:19 PM new
I have used them occasionally, but no more. I can go to the UPS place and get stuff shipped for about 1/2 of what it costs at Mailbox, etc. They do have overhead and severely pad everything. I wonder how their Auctiondrop business is? I need just to pop in and ask. Anyway, if you have a UPS place near you, that's the best way to go. I'm lucky and live in a pretty big city, so there's one convenient to me.
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dadofstickboy
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posted on November 26, 2004 07:13:17 PM new
In our town MBE is now the UPS Store.
It now Sucks was much better before!
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toasted36
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posted on November 26, 2004 07:18:28 PM new
I had Mail Box Etc. charge me 4.00 lol just to hand the box to them once on a Fedex package but the buyer paid it and didn't mind because she didn't want to use UPS.They didn't have to do anything to it,no tape, no packing ,no printing of postage, I mean nothings but take it out my hands. 4.00 and have a nice day.
We have 3 drop spots for UPS that charge whatever the internet quotes but no Fedex location but mail box etc so it was the only option.
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sparkz
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posted on November 26, 2004 07:41:30 PM new
Toasted,
In smaller towns, most FedEx locations will be at the airport. Also, since FedEx bought Kinko's last year, all Kinko' locations are now full service FedEx locations.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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sanmar
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posted on November 26, 2004 07:49:39 PM new
I have had an account with FedEx since back when it was RPS. I box, weigh & put on the UPC & take my pkgs to the FedEx Center about a mile away. Never any problem. They bill me every 2 weeks & I send them a check. MBE gas always had a surcharge for handling UPS. I don't know about the UPS Stores.
Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine
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buyhigh
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posted on November 26, 2004 07:49:53 PM new
I once used the UPS store - used to be a Mailbox and they added an extra $1.00 over what the internet quoted as the shipping cost. Interesting that a Mailbox store about a mile from this one that was not a UPS store wanted the same amount to ship. The package was under one pound but the buyer insisted on UPS.
buyhigh
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ebayvet
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posted on November 26, 2004 09:06:40 PM new
I have a private mailbox there for my mail, and it is great for that. I don't ship from there too, just too expensive!
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stopwhining
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posted on November 27, 2004 05:56:53 AM new
I dont know how these guys make money,but i guess some people dont mind paying for the convenience,they need someone to pack and ship.
I know they charge more for postage stamps and priority shipping is one dollar more,which i think is high.
we have a guy here who runs a giftshop as well as ups,fed exp shipping.
He also runs a USPS contract station and he cheats and he does not give a receipt and he keeps his scale under the counter so you cant see.
I report him twice to the postmaster,he is still there!
A contract station is just like the post office,he has to run it like the post office and no padding and no cheating .
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toasted36
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posted on November 27, 2004 06:18:26 AM new
sparkz ...lol don't laugh ! But we don't have an airport or a kinko's  well they say that patch of grass on Lady's Island is an airport but the only thing next to it is a tomato packing shed and the county dump drop off Roflmao !!
Hilton Head has like 4 Fedex locations but thats about 30 miles away .
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tomwiii
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posted on November 27, 2004 06:51:05 AM new
Last time I used "THE UPS STORE" (aka MBE), I had to send a 2lbs AIRMAIL LETTER POST packie to the UK -- I didn't have a ride to the PO, & the MBE was in walking distance...
They charged $15 IN EXCESS OF ACTUAL POSTAGE just to throw the postage on & hand to their mailman!
I contacted Corporate Headquarters, & their response boiled down to this:
"TS, sucker, they can charge anything they like...
Needless to say, only an idiot would use MBE for ANYTHING other tham a mailbox
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stopwhining
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posted on November 27, 2004 07:39:43 AM new
I always wonder how they meet rent or dont meet rent??
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