PSA East Coast Office Close to Opening

[DanP]

Originally Posted by calvindog

What's the point in opening an office where there will be no grading on site? They'll just have to be packed up and sent to Calif anyway? Why not just send them directly yourself to California?

I thought the same thing. It seems like it will take longer "adding in the middle man". I would still send cards directly to CA. I don't see much happening in the East Coast office unless you live less than 30 minutes away!

[barrysloate]

Many people have an aversion to sending expensive items in the mail. They are afraid they will get lost or damaged. Once they hand over their cards to PSA, they also rid themselves of the responsibilty of shipping them. It may not make sense, but I bet there are people who will drive an hour or more to the NJ office rather than ship cards themselves.

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Many people have an aversion to sending expensive items in the mail. They are afraid they will get lost or damaged. Once they hand over their cards to PSA, they also rid themselves of the responsibilty of shipping them. It may not make sense, but I bet there are people who will drive an hour or more to the NJ office rather than ship cards themselves.

+1

[Davalillo]

I am one of those persons who has an aversion to shipping expensive things by mail. I have been bringing 500 per show to Philly show or packing 500 when I go to LA to drop off myself but its taking too long. I will probably just take every other 8 I have and drop it off for review. I have been averaging 6% bumps on submissions but the last batch of 500 was 8-9%. As the cards get more recent they have a better chance of being bumped. Also I seem to be getting more bumps to 9 from 8 as I get into sending my 60s sets in for review.

Joe offered to send a brinks truck to my house when they went to half point grades but I didn't go for that.

Jim

[whitehse]

Originally Posted by Davalillo

I am one of those persons who has an aversion to shipping expensive things by mail. I have been bringing 500 per show to Philly show or packing 500 when I go to LA to drop off myself but its taking too long. I will probably just take every other 8 I have and drop it off for review. I have been averaging 6% bumps on submissions but the last batch of 500 was 8-9%. As the cards get more recent they have a better chance of being bumped. Also I seem to be getting more bumps to 9 from 8 as I get into sending my 60s sets in for review.

Joe offered to send a brinks truck to my house when they went to half point grades but I didn't go for that.

Jim

I have to say it.....

A Brinks truck for your cards or the payment you will have to make to evaluate 25,000 cards???

[Davalillo]

Really? How much do you think a Brinks Truck would cost?

[steve B]

The other advantage in the shipping is the zoned shipping USPS is using which will only get more expensive.

So shipping a bulk submission to NJ from the northeast will be slightly cheaper.

On PSAs end they can make one periodic large shipment each way, and the savings will be worthwhile.

For me PSA is zone 8. So a 3 lb package by priority is 12.14
NJ is zone 3 so the same package is just 5.96

NYC would be even cheaper from NJ.

So saving $6 a package for small subs is pretty good. They'd still have the one big package going cross country, but the per pound is much less.
Heavier packages the savings is bigger, just over $10 for a 6 lb package.
How many packages do they ship a week?

Plus they can advertize it as being more "green" as it does actually save fuel.


Steve B

[glchen]

I still wonder how it would work if you sent a higher value submission to the East Coast office with 1 or 2 day turnaround. Wouldn't think there would be enough time for PSA to send it cross country and still get the cards graded per service level.