Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
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02/09/23 06:51 PM
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Well, I guess I haven't had to ship anything since before covid hit. I checked on price to ship four beaver hides out to Moyles Tannery today from my home in northern Minnesota. Speedee, UPS, and US Postal Service; $60 to $100, with Postal Service being the most expensive. So with tanning process and total shipping charges for four beaver, it would bring total to over $220.00 I guess I just wasn't expecting this amount..........
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
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Well, I guess I haven't had to ship anything since before covid hit. I checked on price to ship four beaver hides out to Moyles Tannery today from my home in northern Minnesota. Speedee, UPS, and US Postal Service; $60 to $100, with Postal Service being the most expensive. So with tanning process and total shipping charges for four beaver, it would bring total to over $220.00 I guess I just wasn't expecting this amount.......... Did you roll them up tight or try to ship them flat?
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
[Re: kabguy]
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I’m gonna learn to tan my own for this very reason. Can’t afford to have a tannery do it
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
[Re: kabguy]
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02/09/23 11:42 PM
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What Monster Toms is referring to is the excess charges for oversized boxes. In the old days the mountain men used to fold those plews twice and then press them into 80-90 lb packs wrapped in smoked deerskin. We could maybe learn from them.
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
[Re: kabguy]
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02/10/23 10:24 AM
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Or....use pirateship.com
Sounds like a scam but it is completely legit. Huge discounts on UPS shipping especially with oversize packages. It is how I ship whole frozen coyotes and fox across the country.
I usually ship packages for $40-$60 that UPS would charge $200+ for
You just go on there and put in the dimensions of the box and the weight of the package, print the label, tape the label on the box, drop off at UPS store
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
[Re: kabguy]
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02/10/23 01:41 PM
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^^^^ Thanks for the info. I hadn't heard of that service before.
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
[Re: kabguy]
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02/10/23 08:39 PM
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Thanks Coondager. I'd never heard of them before. I'll try them next time I have something to ship. I will also be shipping some fur to Moyles and was shocked last year at what it cost.
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
[Re: kabguy]
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02/11/23 09:53 PM
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That's a negative Mike; smallest box that would fit 4 rolled up tight beaver was $60 for the shipping; 4 tanned beaver at Moyles including their shipping back to me was $160. I will look into Sleepy Creek Tannery also. .....shipping has gone up.
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
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That's a negative Mike; smallest box that would fit 4 rolled up tight beaver was $60 for the shipping; 4 tanned beaver at Moyles including their shipping back to me was $160. I will look into Sleepy Creek Tannery also. .....shipping has gone up. You just have to know how to play the game! It helps when you ship on a daily basis and know how to pack to minimize sizes. Just looked it up. A 32" x 8" x 8" tube weighing 15 lbs, shipped though Pirate Ship has a UPS rate of $18.45. I am pretty sure I could do it in a smaller tube - 6", and the weight would be less unless they were the 4 biggest beavers I see in a year.
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
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02/11/23 10:58 PM
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Shipped 5 marten pelts, 2 fisher pelts and a coyote pelt to Moyle from Maine a couple of weeks ago. Packed it all in a 10x10x24 box. $64 USPS. With the $36 Moyle charges to send it back I’ll have $100 in the lot. No good, but how else can a guy get pelts to Idaho and back. Larger packages are much cheaper to ship through UPS than USPS. Doing the shipping online will help save you 40% of retail prices for UPS also.
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
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02/14/23 03:27 PM
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Well, I guess I haven't had to ship anything since before covid hit. I checked on price to ship four beaver hides out to Moyles Tannery today from my home in northern Minnesota. Speedee, UPS, and US Postal Service; $60 to $100, with Postal Service being the most expensive. So with tanning process and total shipping charges for four beaver, it would bring total to over $220.00 I guess I just wasn't expecting this amount.......... Speedee Delivery doesn't ship to Idaho far as I know. Otherwise, Speedee does a great job at a discount price for WI, IL, MN, IA, ND, SD, and NE. I've shipped many boxes of hooped beaver to the Dakotas for less than $20 a box, some having up to five hooped beaver in them. Speedee plays the same game UPS does IF . . . they come to your door for pickup. That is, if the box dimensions come in at 130" or under, then you're good to go. Over that, and there's quite a leap in surcharge. They measure this way: length X 1 plus width X 2 plus height X 2. If the sum is 130" or less you're good to go. If it's over that, and you've got the time, gas efficient vehicle, and a Speedee depot "nearby", you'll get a very good rate. What might cost me $65 and up through UPS is always less than $20 through Speedee picking up at the door.
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
[Re: kabguy]
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02/15/23 01:51 PM
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I shipped 6 large beavers and a coyote to Sleepy Creek last month and it cost me $23 and the picked it up at my work for $8.
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
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02/15/23 02:13 PM
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I generally ship beaver from Alaska to Moyles for about $5 per hide. Flesh then salt heavily then as they dry roll them up tight in a ball. Stuff/cram/jam into a flat rate box even as they are still a bit flexible. Tape the box for blowouts as needed lol. You should be able to fit 4 xl to blkt beaver in a large flat rate box this way. The flat 'game' box shape may work better than the square type box. A friend of mine ships his dried beaver rolled and he also mentioned the $5 per pelt so his way must work as well. The other thing is that I'm really looking at with Moyles is getting a minimum of 8 skins of a given species for the price break, with 21 pelts being the big break. Not gonna happen with wolverine lol but rats, beaver, etc no problem.
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
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02/15/23 10:59 PM
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USPS large flat rate box is $23.00 I believe. Salted and rolled tight should be able to get at least 4 in large USPS flat rate box.
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
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Or....use pirateship.com
Sounds like a scam but it is completely legit. Huge discounts on UPS shipping especially with oversize packages. It is how I ship whole frozen coyotes and fox across the country.
I usually ship packages for $40-$60 that UPS would charge $200+ for
You just go on there and put in the dimensions of the box and the weight of the package, print the label, tape the label on the box, drop off at UPS store Just used pirateship.com, pretty easy. Saved about 50%.
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
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Several years ago, I shipped a quite large brown bear to New Method tannery. I was barley able to cram it into a dishwasher box. I live in Juneau, Alaska. No roads out, so shipping is air or sea. Air freight would have been over $500.00, so it went by barge. It was still nearly $300.00, and took nearly 3 weeks to get there.
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
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02/20/23 11:22 AM
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Thanks for all the feedback guys; after checking it all out it seems Pirate Ship is my cheapest, best option to save me considerably. Yep, just shipped two whole frozen fox 2 day across the country for $60. Would have been $250+ if I would have went straight through UPS. Pirate ship is the way to go
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
[Re: Keystonekiller]
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What is the other tannery out of jersey not Tubari starts with a z I think there prices are hard to beat Z&L
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Re: Shipping furs to tannery; shipping shocker!!!
[Re: kabguy]
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I checked Tubari and they were more expensive than Moyles. I did just make my shipment of 4 dried, rolled up beaver, in a 40 inch, 8x8 inch box, and total weighed 7 lbs. I used Pirate Ship (UPS) and the cost to ship it from Int'l. Falls, Mn. to Moyles was $18.00. That was the best deal I could come up with and am not disappointed. Not bad at all, definitely saved yourself some money
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