pottery barn discount

[coldworld]

would anyone else like to see a ups employee pottery barn discount. With all of our trucks bricked out with their OS3 dresser boxes, it would be nice for PB corporate to thank us for lugging all of those around all day, every day with a little discount!!!

[hoser]

give us a bloody shipping discount first.

[AznDiablo]

Originally Posted by hoser

give us a bloody shipping discount first.

I 2nd that

[hoser]

Originally Posted by coldworld

would anyone else like to see a ups employee pottery barn discount. With all of our trucks bricked out with their OS3 dresser boxes, it would be nice for PB corporate to thank us for lugging all of those around all day, every day with a little discount!!!

it's nice of PB to give us their business. we're at service to them. not the other way, suprisingly enough to many upsers on this forum.

[derf3733]

I wouldn't use it, because I know what we go through trying to deliver their crap.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by derf3733

I wouldn't use it, because I know what we go through trying to deliver their crap.

One of the developments I deliver to is full of $800,000-$1.5m houses and I have this stuff almost every single day. Thank god their stuff is severely overpriced or else it would be another QVC for us.

The worst day I can recall with Pottery Barn was coming in and seeing at least 5-6 of the 110-130lb boxes and 4-5 of those huge carpets that are up around 90-100lbs. They were all going to the same house. :confused1

[UPSBOI]

Yep I wouldn't by from PB if they were giving it away. Delv at least a couple truck loads during peak and then a bunch was sent back after xmas.

[mittam]

Originally Posted by hoser

give us a bloody shipping discount first.

oh we would get a shipping discount ever notice they are heavier than the wgt on them

[yeldarb]

If I need to ship something, I usually take it to my largest shipper pickup account. Their rates would be about half of the best that I could do.

[hoser]

Originally Posted by mittam

oh we would get a shipping discount ever notice they are heavier than the wgt on them

uh, what :confused1

[HazMatMan]

I would just like to see Pottery Barn use over weight stickers for their packages, or should we just assume those packages that are the size of a small house over weights??

[hoser]

Originally Posted by HazMatMan

I would just like to see Pottery Barn use over weight stickers for their packages, or should we just assume those packages that are the size of a small house over weights??

the economists and industrial engineers realised that the cost savings on heavyweight stickers would be $0.0052 per box. they assume handlers know they're heavy, so not using them would land $3.82 in savings per day, or $1394.30 a year, which could buy so many things, like a IBM 486

[scratch]

The Pottery Barn account was a major account we took from Fedex. In fact, I think they a based in the same city as them. It does seem like they use incorrect weights on them, especially if you go pick them up as a Call Tag or RS pickup.

[local804]

Originally Posted by hoser

the economists and industrial engineers realised that the cost savings on heavyweight stickers would be $0.0052 per box. they assume handlers know they're heavy, so not using them would land $3.82 in savings per day, or $1394.30 a year, which could buy so many things, like a IBM 486

You know what happens when people assume, dont you?

Figure these savings, food for thought

$1394.30 a year for savings on stickers
or
$13,000 in workers compensations claims for the worker that gets hurt.

UPS makes a rule re: overweight stickers on their packages, they must stick with them
We all know UPS likes to make the rules when they go along but.......
Lets be serious!

[Brown Sales Machine]

I recommend a discount for UPS and that we patronize our customers. Why not? Would you rather see the Fed Ex driver deliver this volume? Believe me it is very tough to keep those purple guys out of these accounts. I am generally surprised by the answers on this board. Do you want use to just sell letters since they are easy to deliver?

[local804]

Originally Posted by Brown Sales Machine

I recommend a discount for UPS and that we patronize our customers. Why not? Would you rather see the Fed Ex driver deliver this volume? Believe me it is very tough to keep those purple guys out of these accounts. I am generally surprised by the answers on this board. Do you want use to just sell letters since they are easy to deliver?

NO we do not want just letters but you can fit 25,000 letter in a p1000 and just 5 pottery barn boxes.
You do the math

UPS employee discounts do not just help out the brownies, the Companies still make a profit and everyone is happy. Think about it 230,000(or more) potential new customers

[UPSBOI]

Originally Posted by Brown Sales Machine

I am generally surprised by the answers on this board. Do you want use to just sell letters since they are easy to deliver?

Have you delivered these pkgs?

If you have you would know that honestly the furniture belongs on a freight truck and not in the pkg system!

[MR_Vengeance]

Originally Posted by Griff

The worst day I can recall with Pottery Barn was coming in and seeing at least 5-6 of the 110-130lb boxes and 4-5 of those huge carpets that are up around 90-100lbs. They were all going to the same house. :confused1

did that once........11 PB dresser of some kind to the same house. dude wasn't home, DR everything front door. next day at work, what do i see? 11 call tags going back to the shipper.

[Brown Sales Machine]

I agree UPS BOI but the current state of the company leaves us to pick up and deliver anything that can fit into our system. It is a nasty daily battle with FDX and they can discount deeper than ever. Believe me Pottery Barn is not on "published" rates
I have delivered these packages and it is a pain, let's keep delivering them and maybe we can focus on buying more business with a better cube.

[local804]

Better idea is that if it looks like it fits on a pallet and should fit on a pallet, guess what?
Put it on a pallet and have UPS/Overnight deliver it in a straight job wit a lift.
Now everyone is happy

[hoser]

Originally Posted by local804

You know what happens when people assume, dont you?

Figure these savings, food for thought

$1394.30 a year for savings on stickers
or
$13,000 in workers compensations claims for the worker that gets hurt.

UPS makes a rule re: overweight stickers on their packages, they must stick with them
We all know UPS likes to make the rules when they go along but.......
Lets be serious!

, wow, that's, amazing.... you should be a senior engineer for these guys, now THAT'S thinking!

thinking beyond the first degree.... wow what are you doing with brown..

[hoser]

Originally Posted by Brown Sales Machine

I recommend a discount for UPS and that we patronize our customers. Why not? Would you rather see the Fed Ex driver deliver this volume? Believe me it is very tough to keep those purple guys out of these accounts. I am generally surprised by the answers on this board. Do you want use to just sell letters since they are easy to deliver?

Well, of course, to think that we're entitled to a discount of one of our client's is just insulting. We provide a service to them. Go to Asia where the customer is number one and nothing else. Then you learn what customer service really is.

PS: please, sell letters. An overnight letter makes more money than a 100 lb box of ball-bearings. That's why FX is dominating the express market.

Originally Posted by local804

UPS employee discounts do not just help out the brownies, the Companies still make a profit and everyone is happy. Think about it 230,000(or more) potential new customers

Shipping discounts are not made to make profit, they're made as a benefit to employees. At FX, you get 90% off shipping, so you can overnight a letter to Qatar or somewhere for $10. Not made to make profit by any stretch of the imagination, you may as well fill up open space on the aircraft (resulting in an extra pound in weight), and have a happy employee that's proud of the product that they deliver (we'd be a bit prouder of our company if we could ship xmas presents to our family via ups for cheap)

[Brown Sales Machine]

Hoser--Go to UPSers.com and see all the customer's discounts on that site. How do you think they got there.....negotiation!! This is not a black and white business as to much of the discussion I read on this site.