FEDEX or Broker?

Here the short answer is find out what your competitors do, and do that.

If not, then it is a matter of adding up all the costs, comparing the two, and
much depends
on just what you are dealing in, weights and measures, and cost of goods. The
idea is the
broker is in the biz of lower cost higher volume goods, generally, and UPS in
more higher
cost, lower volume, generally. Somewhere on a continuum of broker costs to UPS
costs is
your switch-point. but then you are not done.

Once you have hard facts, you can go to either the broker or UPS and request
price breaks
given the facts you have in hand, which then changes all your calculations.

If someone wants to create a formula for this, I'd be glad to post it on the
website, and offer
it for sale as a download to the general public. I'd pay $5 for such a tool.
Perhaps others
would to.

John
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 08:54:37 -0800, "Shel Weinberg"
wrote :

>
> So here's my question: Can anyone suggest the dollar value range
> cut-off where using customs broker becomes more cost effective than
> using UPS etc for air shipments?

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