Usps has cost me a fortune destroying way over packed items that they have to beat with a bat to break. I don't know how else they could break them. Now they offer free insurance which is nice but they've already cost me too much and refused to honor it for me to side with them.
FedEx is super fast but will throw charges on your account that you can't fight and don't know about. I shipped a plow to a fellow member recently for $40 or so and I see a $144 charge on my account saying it actually weighed 149 lbs and was a 72x36 box oversized. If FedEx didn't do this to me on a regular basis I would have never checked and been screwed out of $100 for nothing, something I couldn't afford. This is far from the first time they've done this and apparently it's a common scam for them. This is the first time they reversed it for me though after I had to rigorously fight it.
Ups doesn't pull this crap but they're pickup charge is $9 instead of 3 for FedEx and I'm not close to a drop off. That's why I personally ship FedEx but don't ship as much as i used to just in case. Too much risk of overcharge for me.
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