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UPS for your Etsy shop through Pirate Ship!

The holiday season is coming in FAST and we want our www.yarnshop4u.com Etsy orders to arrive as close to the ETA as possible with accurate tracking and reliable so we can keep shipping instead of answering "where's my package" questions which is frustrating for the buyer and us! The 2020 pandemic and 2020 Christmas holiday shipping season revealed "unprecedented" inabilities for the Post Office and FedEx* to get the job done. We DO know UPS is way more reliable than USPS when it's crunch time for getting packages delivered on time but they are EXPENSIVE!! Or are they? During the pandemic related snafus with the Post Office from May 2020 into 2021 we started looking for ways to incorporate more UPS shipping for our Etsy orders. I actually work(ed) for UPS; I'm retired now :) and the prices the sales rep spit out were enough to make me choke.  Below are 3 free (non-paid subscription) options we've used so far for shipping out goods purchased at our E