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To: Dale Baker who wrote (126739)	12/9/2009 1:24:14 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541075

One of my girls and I turned a shared hobby of making jewelry into a small business while she was in high school and college. She then took it on and forward when she relocated a couple of years ago in NYC. We ordered materials and shipped jewelry almost totally by US Priority mail.....thousands of boxes of stuff came and went, not hundreds. Some of the materials came from Europe and a few countries in the Far East....occas. Fedex, but as often by US Airmail. We tried UPS and Fedex, too, of course, but the rates, the service, and for us, the convenience of the Postal service was excellent. Nothing was ever lost, and it was always speedy....better sometimes than UPS because of the Saturday deliveries. The only items shipped out by UPS were when the $100 free insurance made sense. I would have never thought the postal service would win out, but for us it did.