I've been doing this a number of years, both by mail and in person. If you have high value items, priority is the way to go; jam it full of RAM/Logic boards and you'll never lose money. If you have a bunch of peripheral boards/motherboards small socket, stuff that's just above $1 per pound payout (which is about what a box costs to ship UPS to Ohio, at last for me here in upstate NY), I generally hoard the stuff for a while until I have a pallet and just ship LTL freight. I find that using a standard pallet (48x40) and stacking it around 4 feet high, costs about $300 bucks regardless if it's 700 pounds or a 1000, you just have to be pretty accurate on the weight when they are creating the BoL for you, as they can charge you a bit more if you tell them it's 500 pounds and it turns out to be 600. That stuff matters when trucking companies are determining fuel costs, etc. I have myself a perpetual pallet that I just add things to when I have enough of it, like I said, small socket motherboards, peripheral boards, connector ends, etc. When it reaches the point where the thing weighs 1000 pounds ish (doesn't have to be quite that heavy), get a quote, do a cost to profit analysis and on it's way it goes. Easy money. Just don't forget to print the BoL for the trucking company!
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