Subject: Re: My anvil, sort of

From: Daniel Moore <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:39:59 -0400

At 11:19 PM 9/12/96 CST, you wrote:
My father
>couldn't find any markings on it and so he put it on the bathroom
>scale for me and it showed 145 lbs. 
>Now for a question.  He is in South Texas and I am in Kentucky.  He is
>going to check into shipping this to me.  I work at a place that ships
>a lot of UPS and I know that anything above 70 lbs is considered to
>overweight and this costs a lot and from what I have seen, are not
>treated very well.  
>
>Robert
>

Robert,

Call a national trucking company such as Yellow.  They will
ship door to door for a price that is lower than UPS.  For even
lower rates arrange for your father to drop the anvil off at a
local business that uses a trucking line and arrange to pick
it up through a similar business.  The folks at Yellow informed
me that this is not uncommon and that you get a much better rate if 
they don't have to make an extra stop at your door.  The trucking company
will have a list of companies it regularly ships for at both ends.

Dan Moore

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From: Jim McCarty <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 22:47:22 -0500

> will have a list of companies it regularly ships for at both ends.

Beg to differ Dan -- my experience was Yellow Freight was twice the 
cost of UPS although weight was a factor at UPS -- they wouldn't 
deliver over 150 pounds. Yellow Freight has a special category for 
blacksmith tools. The woman who answered the 800 number was most 
helpful. It's cheaper if you drop it at their terminal and cheaper 
still if the person on the other end picks it up at the terminal, 
though home delivery is available.
-- 
Jim McCarty
Father Helias Forge
Taos, MO
Editor Rural Missouri Magazine
Newsletter editor, Blacksmiths Association of Missouri

³Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of little minds³