Hey everyone, James here. Today we've launched our new UPS cost based hazmat shipping policies for calibration gas. This is going to be a change for many of you who are used to our hazmat shipments being flat rate for ground. Here are the changes in brief:
- Hazmat shipping is now based on our cost directly from UPS.
- UPS 2nd Day Air and Next Day Air are now available for in stock hazmat shipments
- Order 2 calibration gas cylinders or more will still qualify you for free Hazmat Ground shipping.
Over the last 5 years we've seen a lot of changes in shipping pricing from the major carriers. When I say changes, I mean repeated increases year over year. For a couple years, we were able to absorb these increases without changing our shipping price, but as time has gone on and we've looked at our shipping data, we've realized that we need to base what we charge off of UPS's pricing directly. Some places in the US are just much cheaper to ship to than others and we needed to start taking this into account. You'll now see quoted shipping based on your destination when you check out, and the shipping method will now read UPS Ground instead of UPS Hazmat.
With this change and the update to our live on the web inventory system, we're now able to offer Next Day and 2nd Day Air shipping for calibration gas cylinders directly on the website. You'll see these options during checkout after you input your shipping address. This is a new system, so as always if you see anything that looks strange, feel free to call us to double check.
If you order 2 or more calibration gas cylinders we're still happy to offer FREE hazmat Ground shipping as the increase in cylinders purchased helps us defray the cost of shipping.
As always, if you have any questions or would like to follow up, please feel free to give us a call at 734-956-0539.