Most expensive shipment you have seen.

[ZQXC]

$37.00

 

[soberups]

I pick up at a helicopter repair place that routinely insures its shipments for over $50k.

Many years ago I collected $17,000 in cash on a COD. I wound up having to use 3 envelopes to turn all of it in.

 

[Kis124]

Customer counter shipping to Italy $1440.00

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[Future]

Have a gold and silver dealer in my loop. On a occasion several drivers are called in to make pickup.Each driver is only allowed to take ten boxes.If they have 50 goin out they send 5 drivers to the pickup etc. Shipper has our names.Just scan the 10 Boxes and leave.Give to hv clerk at the building.No idea the value of the boxes,but it has to be a good chunk.

 

[upschuck]

The highest DV UPS insures is $50,000. The rest of the liability is on the shipper.

 

[oldngray]

The highest DV UPS insures is $50,000. The rest of the liability is on the shipper.

I don't think so. I think there is no limit for air packages.

 

[upschuck]

I don't think so. I think there is no limit for air packages.

The UPS tariff says

52.1 Maximum Declared Values

The maximum declared value is $50,000 per package and $100,000 per pallet

 

[Fedex Guy]

I'm a year into driving and have always been curious about shipping costs for our customers. I only know about 13 routes but I have a few I cover frequently so I've started asking customers about their costs to ship certain packages.

Today I picked up a 140 lb international standard package cost for shipping around 300 dollars. Also had a saver 148 lbs from a different shipper price was 400ish and to have it NDA was over 500. I know larger shippers get breaks and customers get kick backs based on volume but the whole pricing process intrigues me.

What is the largest price tag you have seen to ship a package or what's the highest declared value you have seen? Saw one package declared around 15k...

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Had a HV pickup other day. 40k.


Just to be clear, I don't work for FedEx. Crazy I know.

 

[oldngray]

The UPS tariff says

You might check on that. That rate applies to ground packages I think.

 

[Bottom rung]

Some shippers have a high value waiver. Those shipments aren't insured with us either.

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[scratch]

I picked up a 44 lb box a couple of months ago that went billed as 220 lbs because it was an oversize. The Next Day Air charges alone were $1400, consignee had to have the part.

 

[upschuck]

You might check on that. That rate applies to ground packages I think.

You are right, it does apply to ground packages...............................................and air also. Nowhere does it differentiate between air and ground.

 

[alwaysoverallowed]

Have a gold and silver dealer in my loop. On a occasion several drivers are called in to make pickup.Each driver is only allowed to take ten boxes.If they have 50 goin out they send 5 drivers to the pickup etc. Shipper has our names.Just scan the 10 Boxes and leave.Give to hv clerk at the building.No idea the value of the boxes,but it has to be a good chunk.

We have a couple of those in our center too, but one driver does the pickup and it's up words of a hundred boxes that are 30 to 80 lbs a piece. Need to scan every box then every box gets checked by the shipper once it's loaded, then you go straight back to the building with a security escort, then then truck gets locked up in the building until it's unloaded. I was told once that the value of the pick up is a couple of million easily.

 

[turdbrown]

I'm a year into driving and have always been curious about shipping costs for our customers. I only know about 13 routes but I have a few I cover frequently so I've started asking customers about their costs to ship certain packages.

Today I picked up a 140 lb international standard package cost for shipping around 300 dollars. Also had a saver 148 lbs from a different shipper price was 400ish and to have it NDA was over 500. I know larger shippers get breaks and customers get kick backs based on volume but the whole pricing process intrigues me.

What is the largest price tag you have seen to ship a package or what's the highest declared value you have seen? Saw one package declared around 15k...

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i p/u some kind of oil that was going to a spa in beverly hills. the declared value was 100k

 

[turdbrown]

i p/u some kind of oil that was going to a spa in beverly hills. the declared value was 100k

also p/u a nda letter going to ny that cost the cust. $98.

 

[Covemastah]

hand made wedding gown with diamond lace around Booby line! 50K went to some Celtics bride to be out in LA !

 

[UPS4Life]

My building shipped 2 70 lbs gold bars out on an erreg cart. The driver hauling the trailer was told not to stop.


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[mixyo]

I see 70+ pound NDA's every week. Some of them are over 6 feet long.

As far as value goes we get dump stops for high-end stores at the mall including jewelry....if I had to guess, an average day sees over 500k worth of goods per route....


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[TooTechie]

I'm a year into driving and have always been curious about shipping costs for our customers. I only know about 13 routes but I have a few I cover frequently so I've started asking customers about their costs to ship certain packages.

Today I picked up a 140 lb international standard package cost for shipping around 300 dollars. Also had a saver 148 lbs from a different shipper price was 400ish and to have it NDA was over 500. I know larger shippers get breaks and customers get kick backs based on volume but the whole pricing process intrigues me.

What is the largest price tag you have seen to ship a package or what's the highest declared value you have seen? Saw one package declared around 15k...

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To me everything I handle is just cardboard and plastic widgets. Once you start getting curious about contents or value then you could end up like one of the 30 year employees who loses everything.

 

[upsmaninmi]

On my old hood route, used to deliver 25k worth of fake Jordan's to a place that would sell them out the back door...all COD M/O only.


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