Shipping Poles With Airborne

[coach-scott]

Hi,

I have been shipping poles across country with Airborne for 15 years. You can set up an account with them, it is easy. When you ship the poles it is actually cheaper to ship second day air. I play by their rules. If the package is oversized they will not guaruntee 2nd day delivery and they ship it ground transport. But it is still at the cheaper 2nd day Air rate. I have no idea why 2nd day Air is cheaper than 5-10 business days with ground transport, but it is.
We ship poles to nationals every year. You just have to plan ahead. It cost me $37.00 each way from Atlanta to Nationals at Stanford for 6 15 foot poles. They figure ship by measurement not actual weight. Got to love them. I believe that the formula they use is as follows; Length in inches X Width in inches X Height in inches/ divided by 194 = the converted lb equivalent on their second day chart. The most I have every paid is $42.00 one way.
Last year was the worst experience I have ever had, the poles were shipped 2 weeks in advance of Nationals. 6 days prior to nationals they were still at the OHIO hub. I called them and said that we needed them for a track meet and they shipped them ground on another carrier for free and we had them 3 days later. Just leave time and follow - up with the tracking number.
Several years ago the shipping label fell off the package and it went to the lost package center. They called me because the package was not showing up on their tracking system as being in route. The best thing about poles is among thousands of packages they are easy to find. They shipped them to me free of charge and I got them 5 days after placing the order. They are very helpful. I even bought poles from a guy in the outback (65 miles from the nearest airborne express location) in Utah. The charged me $3.00 additional to pick the poles up at the guys house and it was a dirt road for 10 miles to his house.

Airborne is a vaulters dream for shipping,

Scott Hendrickson

[rainbowgirl28]

This was buried in another thread, I split it for easy reference.