Re: [ARSCLIST] Shipping 78s

[Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the helpful comments.

What does AFAIK mean?

Steve Smolian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Z Snyder" <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Shipping 78s


> Dear Steve,
>
> I can answer one or two items you raised. I've been a stamps.com user for
a
> long time, and I'm happy to report that you can get shipping and delivery
> confirmation for Media Mail, as well as for First Class and Priority Mail.
> Non-priority Mail costs 13 cents more for confirmation -- I feel that this
> is money well-spent, especially in the case of Media Mail, which can, at
> times, have really frustratingly-long deliveries. (I watched a package
which
> I shipped to Tiburon, CA, sit in the office across the bay in Richmond,
CA,
> for five days before it finally got delivered to its destination. There
was
> nothing I could do to speed it along, but at least I knew that it wasn't
> lost.) AFAIK you're still going to have to drop packages over 1 lb off at
> the post office.
>
> UPS is great for tracking purposes, and they have their own software to
> generate the shipping labels (we use it in our business-of course you need
> an account number). It costs money to have the items picked up, of course;
> however, if you take the pre-labeled packages to the UPS office, you can
> usually avoid standing in long lines if you have them pre-labeled.
>
> Hope this helps at least a small amount.
>
> Aaron Z Snyder
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