[CR]Sending a bike in a standard cardboard box

(Example: Production Builders:Teledyne)

To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Bianca Pratorius" <biankita@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:48:26 -0500
Subject: [CR]Sending a bike in a standard cardboard box

I sold the Rigi this last week, and when I put in the dimensions and weight, the Ebay Calculator gave me around $40. When I called UPS for a pickup the price seems to have morphed into $66 to Utah. How is this possible? Do I have to know some secret. In the last 12 months I have purchased 4 bikes and no one has charged anything like $66. Last week there was a thread on the list that stated that Fed Express charges different rates depending on how the wind blows. Any ideas about the discrepancy?

Garth Liberman in Miami Fl.