Selling Large Speakers - How to reduce shipping?


I'm selling my Thiel CS6 that weigh about 200lbs each in their original shipping boxes. I'm looking for help in finding an economical, safe and insured way to ship these speakers within the USA. Both UPS and FedEx have a limit of 150lbs for normal shipping although UPS offers a Freight service that I found to be very expensive ($1000-$1200 to ship from Michigan to Texas or California). The speakers are packed in their original boxes that are 23x17x56 and weigh about 200lbs each. Any suggestions out there? Thanks in advance. Steve
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I have used Pilot Air Freight a few times now and there prices are great and so is there service and I have had no problems with damage. If I am shipping large speakers no matter what I will build a custom pallet for them and strap them together to it, that way they can only lift with a forklift and not topple individual boxes end over end.

I shipped some Von Schweikert VR4 SRs that weighed well over 300 pounds on the pallet from California to New Hampshire and it cost 300 bucks and took a week.

Bax is good to and Cheap. I shipped some Maggie 3.6s to Italy and it only cost 200.00. The only thing is they won't deal with delivery to residences. In fact they refused to come to my place for pickup since I live where I work, even though I have room to turn a large semi truck around and have a forklift on site.