can you ship a mattress with UPS/fedex?

lu_hawk · #1 03-06-2005, 05:16 PM

nobody answers the phones on sundays so i thought you guys could help me out. i have a mattress that needs to go from california to new jersey. can i have UPS/fedex pick it up and deliver it for less than a new mattress costs? any other way to get it across for a reasonable price?

guller · #2 03-06-2005, 05:22 PM

I doubt they will handle a package that big. You will have to ship freight. Yellow, CCX, PJAX, Overnight, etc. Probably cost a few hundred.

jason_t · #3 03-06-2005, 05:22 PM

I looked into this when I moved from New Jersey to California last year. I deemed it possible (not with FedEx or UPS) but prohibitively expensive. So now I have a brand new queen size bed.

fatmongo · #4 03-06-2005, 06:41 PM

Being the board-resident UPS employee I can tell you that I have never seen a full mattress shipped by us. Baby crib mattresses all the time, but thats all I see. I think for a price they would ship just about anything though. But you're better off going with a normal oversize freight company, like Yellow or G.O.D. or whatever.

lu_hawk · #5 03-06-2005, 07:29 PM

yeah i just talked to yellow, and it is 600 to ship. which will buy me a new mattress.