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<blockquote data-quote="vvv" data-source="post: 5286103" data-attributes="member: 63825"><p>I know there's quite the number of shippers out there cheating on putting accurate weights on packages, and I always found it irritating myself.....not to mention very unsafe.</p><p>But I will shed some light on part of the issue for you in that it's UPS's fault and not the shippers in many situations.</p><p></p><p>I'm a driver myself and also have a side business otherwise I would have still been clueless.</p><p></p><p>UPS offers shippers a 5 tier pricing structure plan called "SIMPLE RATE". And there are 5 different sized boxes you can ship from XS to XL.</p><p>XS ....up to 100" (combined) S .....up to 250" M ....up to 650" L ....up to 1,050" XL ....up to 1,728"</p><p></p><p>No matter what size you use of these 5, so long as the weight is 50LBs or less it qualifies for Simple Rate.</p><p></p><p>What I explain next is where the problem is. When I print my labels the smallest box up to a combined 100" ALWAYS just prints as 1LB even if I have 20LBs in there.</p><p>And say when I need the bigger boxes that are L or XL even if I put 40-50LBs of product in there those labels only show up as 8 &13Lbs respectively when I print them out.</p><p></p><p>Sorry to be so long winded, but long story short......you can thank some higher up idiot management type figure for screwing up yet another aspect of the job AND putting your health and safety at risk!!!!!</p><p>I highly doubt after many read this they'll be none to surprised at the companies carelessness on something that I would have to imagine is a simple fix.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vvv, post: 5286103, member: 63825"] I know there's quite the number of shippers out there cheating on putting accurate weights on packages, and I always found it irritating myself.....not to mention very unsafe. But I will shed some light on part of the issue for you in that it's UPS's fault and not the shippers in many situations. I'm a driver myself and also have a side business otherwise I would have still been clueless. UPS offers shippers a 5 tier pricing structure plan called "SIMPLE RATE". And there are 5 different sized boxes you can ship from XS to XL. XS ....up to 100" (combined) S .....up to 250" M ....up to 650" L ....up to 1,050" XL ....up to 1,728" No matter what size you use of these 5, so long as the weight is 50LBs or less it qualifies for Simple Rate. What I explain next is where the problem is. When I print my labels the smallest box up to a combined 100" ALWAYS just prints as 1LB even if I have 20LBs in there. And say when I need the bigger boxes that are L or XL even if I put 40-50LBs of product in there those labels only show up as 8 &13Lbs respectively when I print them out. Sorry to be so long winded, but long story short......you can thank some higher up idiot management type figure for screwing up yet another aspect of the job AND putting your health and safety at risk!!!!! I highly doubt after many read this they'll be none to surprised at the companies carelessness on something that I would have to imagine is a simple fix. [/QUOTE]
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