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shipping secrets that i'm going to show
you today is information usps fedex and
ups do not want you to know
and more importantly this video is not
sponsored this is just to help you save
money and as we count down the top 10
shipping secrets
i'm also going to show you how to unlock
some unpublished rates tied to your
favorite carriers
let's begin with shipping secret number
one go beyond
the big four that's ups usps
fedex and potentially dhl and understand
that there are carriers that will
deliver your stuff
and important documents regionally for
significantly lower rates
in the world of midwest shipping there
are companies like pitt ohio if you are
living
right now in washington oregon idaho
nevada utah colorado arizona or
california
you can get significantly cheaper
shipping rates by going through a
company like this
midwest residents can also benefit from
companies like speedy delivery
and even laser ship could potentially
save you a lot of money
on your everyday shipping so please
consider going beyond some of the big
large carriers you can often get
significantly
smaller shipping fees shipping secret
number two
don't always assume that usps is the
cheapest they're going to be the
cheapest for some of the
rate examples that we're going to tackle
in a few moments but
also don't assume that the person
working behind a counter taking your
payment information
is going to unlock the best rates for
you a lot of the time they're working
very quickly
and there's a few factors they may not
realize
which is what we're going to discuss
more in shipping secret number four but
before we get there
i want to talk about third party
insurance and let's call this
shipping secret number three whenever
you can
at least get a rate on third-party
shipping rates when it comes to
insurance
if you are shipping things like jewelry
or electronics that have a high value
i would never in my lifetime want to
deal with making a claim
on a usps toll-free number i've had to
do it actually
know that i think about it and it was
horrendous by the time someone even
answers the phone after hours of being
put on hold
they're not nearly as helpful as some of
the larger shipping companies like
ups fedex but they charge you an arm and
a leg
before you contemplate insurance check
out companies like shipsurance
where the claims are fulfilled at a much
faster rate
the benefits are a little bit better and
more importantly this will work for
usps dhl canada i mean it just whatever
it is that you're shipping there is a
chance that they will insure it at a
significantly lower rate
for shipping secret number four i'm
going to do a little bit of shipping 101
just
important savings information for you
and i know that rates are increasing all
over the place at a very rapid pace so
this is
the basic to ensure that you get the
lowest rate let's begin with
first class mail so if your package is
under one pound
the usps first class mail option is the
best
way to go but as i said when you go to
the counter at usps
and you have your package ready and
you've got your first class mail
they don't always ask you what the
contents are in the mail and that's
what brings me to this bonus tip for
shipping secret number four which is
media mail media mail is the most cost
effective way to send
media and while it is designated for
educational materials
prices start at two dollars and eighty
cents and it is significantly cheaper so
if you are actually sending things like
video games
i know there's a lot of gamers out there
a lot of christmas presents that come
into handy with this
you can send books film printed music
and test materials there are a lot of
people right now doing
e-distance learning learning from home
there's a lot of educators out there and
maybe you're in marketing and you're
trying to educate people on what it is
you're sending so this is sort of
open to interpretation on some of that
but printed music test materials video
and sound recordings
play scripts manuscripts printed
educational reference charts
medical loose leaf pages and binders and
computer reading material
and while i do realize it says video
games and computer drives and digital
drives do not qualify for media mail
prices norma telling you to dupe the
system in any way whatsoever
there's a thin line between computer
readable media
and video games and maybe something is
educational i'm just throwing that out
there there are ways to work media mail
work to your advantage
for shipping secret number five keep in
mind that size
does matter i've been told that my whole
life and not necessarily in a
complimentary way
i've seen this actually a lot with
christmas gifts a lot of people will
send a bunch of multiple
small usps priority mail shipping boxes
to the individual members of a family
but what you might not realize
is this is the small and that's the
medium
you can fit a lot of smalls into a
medium so consider packing
a lot of the christmas gifts
individually into a medium box
it is significantly cheaper by the time
you've sent four medium small boxes
and there is a big size advantage but
that's not all let's actually look at
the rates
for parcels between 1 and 10 pounds usps
priority mail is the way to go
after you exceed that your best choice
is going to be
fedex or ups they're actually
cheaper well usps priority mail is great
for packages weighing
under 10 pounds what happens if you want
it in two days
versus three which brings me to shipping
secret number six
and this is really important to know
because usps does not have
anything with a two-day guarantee and in
fact although they are saying fast
delivery times between one and three
business days
you see that little asterisks over here
usps is merely telling you they're going
to do their
absolute best to try and get it there in
under four or five days i do a lot of
shipping tests and i will tell you right
now if you need anything in a rush
do not even deal with usps even their
next day service doesn't always have the
same
handling that you would get with ups or
fedex and that's actually talk about
that as we continue
shipping secret number six i want to
remind you guys that for
ups and fedex two-day services which you
can't get with usps if they have that
three-day window minimum
you are looking at almost identical
prices between fedex and ups
i want you guys to know that that fedex
and ups two day both have
some of the higher rates associated with
them but you will get that guarantee
if you have that 48 hour requirement now
while all of that information is great
for some of the smaller packages what do
you do if you have a really heavy
package and that's where
fedex ground comes in and that's also
where
shipping secret number seven comes in
fedex ground
is always going to be your best bet
even cheaper than ups ground and faster
for the very large package we're talking
packages up to 150 pounds
the great thing about this service is
you can actually
ship things like luggage and duffel bags
i remember when i was moving from
chicago to north dakota
it was cheaper for me to use fedex
ground than it was to actually put these
onto a moving truck
that charged this weird cubic rate thing
for long distance moves i'll do a whole
other video on
how to save during your move and
subscribe if you want to learn how to
save
for your upcoming household moves but
when it comes to packages fedex ground
would be
the go-to for that type of weight for
shipping secret number eight and this is
actually tied into a test that i ran
and i think the results are going to be
very surprising to a lot of you always
use the carrier's shipping boxes when
possible i know that we're tempted
to just take everything in our amazon
return box and just send it to whatever
carrier we can for our own personal
deliveries
when amazon or another company is not
paying for an rma for example if you use
a fedex box and try to
deliver that with dhl they'll process it
but things can happen i'm going to get
to that in a moment
the fedex rates and the ups rates tied
to
when you use your packaging versus
their packaging will almost always be
cheaper if you can fit whatever it is
that you have into one of their specific
sizes
that applies as well of course with what
you can get into a small flat rate one
rate box with usps and
how those advantages can can pile up but
do not use your own packaging unless you
really really need to there's some rates
and savings based into the carrier
knowing specifically what package
they're going to get
and for that example that i mentioned i
just as a test sent some
competing carriers packaging with
carriers
and well it worked for the most part dhl
actually lost one of my
fedex logoed boxes with a dhl label that
might have just been
a coincidence but what i will follow up
by saying is
dhl after they recovered the package
during that time that it was missing and
off the grid
they actually gave me a 25 gift card to
apologize for the convenience
and with that being said as part of this
shipping secret i will tell you that
between
fedex ups usps and dhl dhl
has hands down the best customer service
if something happens
that doesn't mean they're the least
expensive but i will tell you that if
you're sending some
really expensive goods dhl might be the
best way to go specifically for global
shipments as well
for shipping secret number nine before
we get to number 10 which has a great
way to
unlock some unpublished rates which are
going to rock your world for all of your
personal shipping i want to remind you
guys if you can
please don't double ship during the
holidays i see people do it
all the time and as a consumer advocate
this is what i'm referring to
most retailers including amazon will
give you
free shipping whether or not you're a
prime member as we count down to
christmas and hanukkah whatever your
gifting occasion happens to be within
two weeks of christmas itself almost
every major retailer will give you
free shipping with specific cutoff times
regardless
of how much money you've spent on your
order as you get into that last week
they're even more aggressive with sales
and free shipping but let's just say
it's a regular shipping day and you want
to send something like this
strange sensory teething bead that was
suggested to me because it knows i'm a
parent
let's discuss the gift options amazon
will
gift wrap gift bag or a gift box your
purchase
for under five dollars and in most cases
most retailers
will have comparable rates that are less
than 10. what i see so much during the
holidays is people order the gift
they get it sent to themselves then they
wrap it
or even just repackage it because that's
what they do
and then they bring it to the post
office ups or fedex and they send it out
don't do that i know this might seem
like a no-brainer to a lot of people but
it's actually not observed based on a
lot of the polls that i run over the
holidays
if you can just input the address of the
recipient
and get the store from which you are
shopping to deliver it
and if you don't want to pay for gift
wrapping trust me people are really
happy to get that free gift card option
it'll show up it's great
the other thing that i want to mention
which is good for stores like kohl's
is if you go into coals and you order
from a kiosk
you can actually score free standard
shipping on any item that you
buy when you go into the store and order
from the kiosk and the reason that's key
a lot of people think those kiosks are
great if you have an item that isn't in
stock and you need to then all of a
sudden go to a computer and order it for
free
but there are stores like kohl's that
have kiosk where as long as you go into
the store you can do all of your holiday
shipping from that kiosk
score that free shipping and for stores
like kohl's and macy's and many of the
other retailers where their
minimum order requirement is not great
you need to be like well over 25 to get
free shipping
use the kiosk if you can get to a store
and things are okay in your community
for you to do that
as shopping secret number nine now for
shopping secret 10 which is probably one
of the most
important resources that i can dispense
today i want you guys
to pay very close attention to your
screen and a website called pirate ship
this is a way for you to score usps
priority mail cubic pricing with no
markup fees
and they call this a secret service
where you won't find it at the post
office but it is in fact one of the
cheapest ways to ship
now there are ways to use services like
ship station and if you're a small
business there's nothing i'm going to
tell you right now that's going to
change your perspective
but this is an amazing service for small
packages so priority mail cubic
cheapest fastest way to ship packages
that weigh between 1 and 20 pounds
you will get that 1 to 3 delivery day
process that i was discussing with you
you get free package tracking you get
100
insurance included for free and this is
90 in savings versus what you would pay
in a retail store
if you use a service like pirate ship
and they are
highly reputable they're great to deal
with and
well they're not sponsoring this video
and i really wish they would this is
a service where similar to buying
stamps.com services
and avoiding having to go to a post
office this is a great way
to get those small packages and i think
you guys are going to find that this
is a great piece of software it's free
shipping software to
access the least expensive usps
shipping rates now if you have watched
the earlier parts of this video which
i'm assuming you have you'll know that
usps
is not always the cheapest but for
something like
these small cubic shipping package
options that are unpublished
i think you're going to find this truly
amazing so the link for this
unpublished secret service in the video
description box if you need anything
else drop me a line if you guys do a lot
of shipping or a lot of overpaying for
shipping
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