Fedex Insurance

[James Bond]

Does Fedex insure all packages for free, or does that cost extra, like the USPS?

 

[rml]

Free insurance for item under $99

Pay a little bit extra for anything over that

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: rml
Free insurance for item under $99

Pay a little bit extra for anything over that

Correct. And in my experience it costs only an extra $1.00 for each additional $100 of insurance you buy. For example, I sent a packaged today via FedEx. Standard shipping came to $23. Another $200 of insurance cost me $25 total.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: rml
Free insurance for item under $99

Pay a little bit extra for anything over that

Correct. And in my experience it costs only an extra $1.00 for each additional $100 of insurance you buy. For example, I sent a packaged today via FedEx. Standard shipping came to $23. Another $200 of insurance cost me $25 total.

Wow, I can't believe its that cheap.

Cool, good news.

 

[Sukhoi]

Wow that is awesome to know. I have to ship most of what I own via FedEx in 2 months.

 

[LEDominator]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Wow that is awesome to know. I have to ship most of what I own via FedEx in 2 months.

College ending?

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: LEDominator

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Wow that is awesome to know. I have to ship most of what I own via FedEx in 2 months.

College ending?

Nah, job rotation.

 

[intogamer]

Fedex Ground is so worth it with the USPS increase.

If you print a label that'll save ya some too

 

[daveshel]

Regardless of how much value you declare, you still have to go through the claims process if something happens. This amounts to dealing with someone whose job it is to find a reason not to pay the claim.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: Tizyler

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: rml
Free insurance for item under $99

Pay a little bit extra for anything over that

Correct. And in my experience it costs only an extra $1.00 for each additional $100 of insurance you buy. For example, I sent a packaged today via FedEx. Standard shipping came to $23. Another $200 of insurance cost me $25 total.

Wow, I can't believe its that cheap.

Cool, good news.

I just shipped a midsized box valued at $354 and the insurance was an extra $1.85.

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: daveshel
Regardless of how much value you declare, you still have to go through the claims process if something happens. This amounts to dealing with someone whose job it is to find a reason not to pay the claim.

I believe USPS made Fedex/DHL/UPS change from insurance > declared value, because they were not backed by insurance. So essentially you gotta work with insurance type of people.

Maybe thats why USPS Insurance is more costly? But I rather not have a claim with USPS

 

[TheKub]

Originally posted by: intogamer
Fedex Ground is so worth it with the USPS increase.

If you print a label that'll save ya some too

Do they still have the flat rate boxes? I saved a bundle shipping tools/books/poker chips in those things when I moved from HI.

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: TheKub

Originally posted by: intogamer
Fedex Ground is so worth it with the USPS increase.

If you print a label that'll save ya some too

Do they still have the flat rate boxes? I saved a bundle shipping tools/books/poker chips in those things when I moved from HI.

Yes they do. But I had to ship a 2lbs hard drive from Boston > Cali (Zone 8) via Priority Mail. It cost $7.55 on top of $2 insurance?, so Flat Rate FTL here

 

[daveymark]

Originally posted by: daveshel
Regardless of how much value you declare, you still have to go through the claims process if something happens. This amounts to dealing with someone whose job it is to find a reason not to pay the claim.

I have filed 21 claims for items I've shipped in the past 4 years. they all were covered.

Of course, I've never filed a damage claim, it's always been an item not delivered, or an item delivered w/o signature when the package required a sig

before you think that 21 claims is a lot, take note that I've shipped thousands of items.

 

[OJ]

I filed a damage claim and they made me just through many hoops, in the end they paid.

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: daveymark

Originally posted by: daveshel
Regardless of how much value you declare, you still have to go through the claims process if something happens. This amounts to dealing with someone whose job it is to find a reason not to pay the claim.

I have filed 21 claims for items I've shipped in the past 4 years. they all were covered.

Of course, I've never filed a damage claim, it's always been an item not delivered, or an item delivered w/o signature when the package required a sig

before you think that 21 claims is a lot, take note that I've shipped thousands of items.

Fedex?