"Also, you can create your UPS shipment online, pay for it online and print a shipping label...all at the standard UPS rates, and then just drop the package off at The UPS Store."
You can do the same thing w/Fedex Ground on the net (if you have a Fedex "ground enabled" account" and drop it off at any Kinkos. Fedex Ground about 25% cheaper than UPS and sometimes a day faster. Be careful, though, they tried to charge me for weekly pick-up. Cheerfuly credited my account, but I never asked for pick-up and never used it.
You can do the same thing w/Fedex Ground on the net (if you have a Fedex "ground enabled" account" and drop it off at any Kinkos. Fedex Ground about 25% cheaper than UPS and sometimes a day faster. Be careful, though, they tried to charge me for weekly pick-up. Cheerfuly credited my account, but I never asked for pick-up and never used it.