stevelau1911

How much does it cost to ship a banana pup through a priority mail usps medium rate mailing tube that weighs no more than 1-2 lbs?

Has anyone shipped this way or is it better to just go with the flat rate boxes?

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Abnshrek

The 38" triangle box is better, and the longer triangle box is even better (super heavy -duty).. Plants that are meduim size have leaves, which helps in the transition versus getting chopped for the flat-rate box.. :^)

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stevelau1911

Does anyone know how much it costs to ship one of those long triangular boxes?

I'm just shipping a single small banana plant, and flat rate boxes would be simply too short so just need to know how much it costs if it is getting shipped lets say from the east to the central zone with 1-2lbs inside.

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I'm in zone 6 upstate NY, specialize in growing temperate cold hardy bamboos(mainly phyllostachys) and starting to get into bananas.

my picture website is http://www.flickr.com/photos/31489820@N02/

http://stevespeonygarden.blogspot.com/

bananimal

I just sent a small pup out this way for the first time. Priority Mail service was $6.60

Box was from UPS --- the 4" x 4" at 4 ft long.

I was amazed. Still ---- a big fat old mamalucca corm, topped, and sent in the large Flat Rate PM box will get you fruit way sooner than a 1 lb corm-let.

david.

I use flat rate boxes only and use them more because of the weight of some of the corms

bananimal

Me too. Lowers shipping cost and delivery is fast.

Bob3

Distance between zip codes is going to make a difference; a 2-pound sent real close is going to cost similar to the 1-pound rate ($5.05 vs $5.82)
2 pounds going cross country = $9.88
The "Regional Rate" boxes can be a particularly good deal, freezing the weight rate at 2 pounds.
Plug in your variables & see the results at: Postage Price Calculator

The USPS will deliver free Priority supplies right to your door for no charge:
https://store.usps.com/store/browse/...tegoryProducts

You can even print postage after registering a credit card with them.

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adolfainsley8

Has anyone shipped this way or is it better to just go with the flat rate boxes?

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JaredZone9a

Talk to @crazy banana

cincinnana

For me flat rate...
Gets where it gets in the same amount of time.

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This is an old post but maybe my reply could help someone else.

I would never use a mailing tube. And I would never use a medium or large flat rate box to ship something 1-2 lbs.

In your situation it would be much cheaper to tape 3 medium flat rate boxes together than to ship it as a single medium flat rate box because the 3 boxes taped together will have a USPS Dimensional Weight of less than 1728 cubic inches.

The 2 most common box sizes I use have a USPS Dimensional Weight of 1728 cubic inches.

6 * 6 * 48

6 * 9 * 32

If you ship using USPS you are already paying to use a box up to 1728 cubic inches.

I shipped a 3 lb variegated monsters cutting that needed a large box which had USPS Dimensional Weight of 2988 cubic inches. Because of the box size the Dimensional Weight rate was charged at 18 lbs regardless if I ship 3 lb or 18 lb. I ended up shipping it in a 15 lb wooden crate for the same price it would have cost to ship it in a cardboard box.

The bigger boxes get delivered much quicker on average because they are more difficult for the Post Office to lose.


The USPS has a formula for setting Dimensional Weight rates: A package dimensions are multiplied, Length X Width X Height. If the result is more than 1 Cubic Foot (1728 cubic inches), divide the result by 166 to determine the Dimensional Weight.

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All these variegated bananas were shipped in one box, just as they appear in the photos.

None of them would have fit in a Priority Mail large flat rate box but if they all had it would have cost $19.30

All of them did fit in one Priority Mail 32" x 9" x 6" box which costed $14.80

Average cost of shipping per variegated banana was only $2.47 each.

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