Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DRon knife on March 10, 2012, 12:14:58 pm
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hi guy's,Quick question,does anyone know if you can mail a stave through the post office or does it have to go ups? Thanks for any help. Ron
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Almost all my staves come post office. (my route carrier really hates me lately ;))
I have gotten many from sellers on ebay. They have all come Post Office.
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haha,Thanks Bevan!
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I send everything USPS. Never had a problem. My postal carrier thinks its funny that we send fence posts around the country. ;D
I usually wrap the ones I send in white wrapping paper and some just use shrink wrap. Don't want our postal workers getting splinters now do we. ;)
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Post office for me too.
Cipriano
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Post office for me also. I got a roll of black plastic that I wrap mine with. If you are sending them pay attention to the length and girth. They will measure them and if its over a certain amount it will cost a lot more. I don't send staves over 70" and I've never had to pay extra. If you ship to Canada its very expensive. If you keep it in the lower 48, it isn't bad. For me it's usually around $15 for a stave.
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USPS for anything long and skinny. UPS will be a waste of money.
Staves you can just wrap in shrink wrap slap a label on it and send it. That will minimize bulk which affects their pricing algorythm. FOr bows I get free Fridge boxes and cut them in to strips and bend up a triangular box +2" in length . It will take R/D bows and flat bows. Recurves are a different story but they are shorter anyway.
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I have found a tube I like to use in shipping finished arrows and bows. I get a 4" x 10' 'solid waste' tube from Home Depot. Costs me about $8.
I can get a bow tube and an arrow tube from each one. I make 'plugs' from pine scrap. It is darn near crush proof. Light weight. Post office has had no issues with it yet.
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usps here.... although if Bevan would stop outbidding me I would have more LOL :)
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I have quite outbiddina ANYONE on ebay. The last piece of osage was a fluke. Did the min bid and nobody else bid. :laugh:
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Hey Bevan, I was going to sabotage you but I was playing nice >:D
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PLEASE, sabatoge me next time!! ;D
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lol...play nice you two!!
It went usps,73"@15$
What I used to wrap it was some 15" painters masking paper and some masking tape.
Thanks for all your help!! Ron
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remember to cut cardboard strips and tape them on the back of the stave when you shrink wrap them.this will keep the backs from getting dented..
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Yes you can use the post office on shipping wood. Maximum length is 80" and up to 70lbs. I use Parcel mostly because of cost. Some times it is very slow to get to it's destination though. I shipped 2 staves to a guy on the East coast and it took 3 weeks to get there. Amazes me how they can't find a 6 foot long piece of wood.
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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?
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I get stuff all the time that was shipped UPS that is delivered by the post office.
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It's called sub-contracting.
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I have never used ups and I use usps for staves or wood all the time.
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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.
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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.
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yeah, up to 108" combined is the top end of the standard fee, over that it can get spendy, Bub
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i always do ups ground. i know im impatient ;D
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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 :o
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
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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 ;)
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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. 8)
George
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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.