I'm selling a set of tires and have been looking around for a good way to ship them within the lower 48. So far, the US Postal Service is the best rate I've found for about $130. FedEx was about $160 and UPS was about $180. Does anyone know a shipping company that might be better?

I have always had good luck with fedex and band two of them together and put cardboard cookies on the ends. if they do not have the cookies they charge you more. As long as they are under 90 lbs i think they should be fine. I have paid about $60 to ship 4 tires adn i put them in two bundles withthe cookies.

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I know of guys using Greyhound for things like this. It's cheap.
Good luck,
John

Ups usually charges me from tirerack 15.00 per tire.

You can set up a account with Yellow Freight. Just shipped a pallet with 8 tires and wheels from Oregon to Indy 320 lbs for $112.00 with liftgate service on the pickup end. Fed Ex wanted $680.00...

Thanks for the replies. I'll check out these leads.

I've got tires from both Tire rack and Discount Tire. Some were shipped in pairs and some as single tires. They were just strapped together and shrink wrapped. Cost was never more about $15 a tire using UPS.

those big tire places have "deal" on shipping tires that we cannot get !!!! shipping tires is expensive...I stopped selling them due to shipping cost

Yes, Yellow Frieght (YRC now) is great. I shipped a pair of III drives from Oregon to Florida for $514, and am going to ship a pair of 454's down to CA for about $400.