Have you checked on the rediculous amount extra that MB charges to ship? I needed to ship a 100 lb amplifier and MB wanted to charge me 3 times as much to ship UPS compared to walking into the UPS store. If this is how much I have to pay for bogus "insurance", it would be cheaper for me to get on an airplane myself and fly it somewhere.
FYI - Who Should Pack Your UPS Shipment.
This is prompted by the often asked questions: "Who can I have pack by heavy breakable item?" and "UPS will not pay my claim because they say it was improperly packed. What can I do?"
I leaned recently that UPS now ownes the chain MAIL BOXES ETC. So if you drop off an item at Mail Boxes Etc and have them pack and ship it, UPS should no longer have a defense for bad packing, because they now will be resonsible for the quality of the packing as well as the shipping.
If they every tried to weasel out under that excuse, I can image a judge or jury handing them their heads in any lawsuit. Also the bad publicity would kill Mail Boxes and the millions they spent to buy it.
I leaned recently that UPS now ownes the chain MAIL BOXES ETC. So if you drop off an item at Mail Boxes Etc and have them pack and ship it, UPS should no longer have a defense for bad packing, because they now will be resonsible for the quality of the packing as well as the shipping.
If they every tried to weasel out under that excuse, I can image a judge or jury handing them their heads in any lawsuit. Also the bad publicity would kill Mail Boxes and the millions they spent to buy it.