I hate writing one star reviews. I very rarely write a one star review, but I don't think I have a lot of choice.
I went to ship a package. The issue I encountered was insurance. The UPS on-line website quoted $1.15 for insurance per $100 of shipment value.
This location quoted me $5.+ per $100. That's almost 5 times as much.
On a shipment with a value of $500, as an example, that's the difference between $5.75 and $25. If the shipment is of significant value, a valuable vase for example, that you want to insure for $1,500, that's the difference between $17.25 and $75.00.
I asked how they justified that kind of markup. Their explanation was that they're a franchise and not a store owned by UPS. Probably a great place to take Amazon returns, not my choice of a place to ship anything of significant value that it's advisable to insure.
We never got to the quote for packing and shipping for my item, so I cannot say anything about pricing in those categories. read more