OTHER THAN eBAY Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

[BobHufford]

Thanks, gents.
@BobHufford : no it wasn't a hat you sent to me (you haven't sent hats to me recently, have you?)

I guess I’m thinking of the Dobbs Homburg and the Two Ouncer that got over there and then were returned to sender.

 

[steur]

I guess I’m thinking of the Dobbs Homburg and the Two Ouncer that got over there and then were returned to sender.

Ah, yes. Those were another of those times when the postal services and customs dropped the ball.

 

[Donny_300]

Gripe: I have an auction win being shipped (which includes the hat box so I knew it wouldn’t be cheap), but when I changed the address tied to my account to my daughter’s just two blocks away (as I am at the farm this week) the price was higher. Not sure if it is because her house is in the city limits or what. This is UPS through Shipping Saint. So I changed it back to my address and will split the $14.60 in savings with her when she has to go get it off the porch. Hope she gets there before the pirates.

My address outside the city:
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Her address just inside the city:
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@BobHufford on the $14.60 for two blocks: city limits often line up with a ZIP code boundary, and UPS prices by ZIP, not by distance. A different ZIP can mean a different zone from the shipper, and UPS also adds a "delivery area surcharge" to a list of specific ZIP codes, which includes plenty of suburban and in-town ones, not only rural. Either one would explain it. With a box as big as a hat box it's billed by size rather than weight, so any difference gets bigger. Your fix was the right one, and I hope your daughter beats the pirates to the porch.

 

[TimmyV]

I guess I’m thinking of the Dobbs Homburg and the Two Ouncer that got over there and then were returned to sender.

I ended up with the Two Ouncer once the dust settled and proud to have it !

 

[steur]

I ended up with the Two Ouncer once the dust settled and proud to have it !
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Glad it found a good home!

 

[BobHufford]

Similar in that it is hat shaped?