MidwayUSA Announces New Reduced-Cost Nitro Express Shipping
MidwayUSA has completely revamped its shipping system, putting in a new billing structure that should result in significant savings for customers, particularly for small orders. The new “Nitro Express” shipping program at MidwayUSA will offer $3.99 shipping for orders under one pound (non-DOT regulated products). Packages 1 to 10 pounds can ship for $5.99 (USPS) plus $0.60 per pound. DOT-regulated products cost more to ship, but the rates are still reasonable. Here are the new Nitro Express Shipping Rates from the MidwayUSA website:
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MidwayUSA founder Larry Potterfield explains: “I’m very pleased to announce… our new Nitro Express Shipping® system. We discovered that if MidwayUSA re-engineered our system for shipping packages… we could save our customers a lot of money on shipping costs.We’ve spent several years and millions of dollars to develop one of the best, most efficient shipping systems in the country; and we’ve negotiated very hard with our freight partners — all to save our customers money on shipping costs.
Right off the bat you’ll notice that most shipping costs went down substantially — and it’s really easy to understand. There are no order minimums or small order fees and shipping costs are calculated ‘real-time’ as you add products to your shopping cart. The complete details are available by clicking on Shipping Charges & Options on our website.
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Well it’s about time! Midway’s shipping costs were the biggest reason I’d not ordered from them in a while! Even the smallest of items was a minimum of $8.99 plus a S&H fee. That was nuts!
I checked with them the other day on ordering 5 decapping pins, you could have put them in an envelope and shipped them for .45 cents with the billing invoice yet they wanted $8.99 plus $3.00 I think it was for S&H. No thanks to that! Even shipping USPS with tracking isn’t that much on small items!
They’ll get more of my business if they have reasonable S&H fees that’s for sure!
There is some misunderstanding. The rates are base PLUS the per-pound value. To check I just entered a chat session with Midway – shown below.
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MidwayUSA: Welcome to MidwayUSA!
Interaction transferred to CCWebChat.
John: Interaction alerting John.
Agent has joined the conversation
My name: With your new shipping rates, is a 5# shipment $5.99 or $8.99 (that is $5.99 PLUS $0.60 x5 = $3.00)?
John: Let me check.
John: It would be the $5.99 plus the $0.60 per pound.
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Bottom line, compare TOTAL cost including S&H – just like most of us have learned to do already.
So the 10# example would be $11.99, not $5.99. That is $5.99 PLUS ($0.60 x 10) $6.00 = $11/99
I shifted much of my purchases to other companies because of the ridiculous shipping prices/policies. I’ll see if this is an improvement.
I used to order every other day back when they had free shipping, rates were high when they started charging. Glad to see them drop back. Of course if its double like the example above…
Wow! ELR Researcher, that would put their shipping even higher than before!!! If that is to be the case they’ve seen their last order from me that’s for sure! Their shipping was already outrageous as it was. I can get my stuff from Botach with free shipping, they don’t have everything I need but they do have quite a bit!
They have had NITRO Shipping for a while now. According to my orders over the last couple years
It doesn’t matter how much they reduce costs if the contents of your package is bent or broken. How many times have you folks ordered several items only to have Midway ship them all loose in a box . ….500 bullets rolling around in a box getting dented will not work. I order from Grafs, no price gouging and well packaged shipping.
Thanks But NO Thanks, MIDWAY USA, I don’t see it. I use to order every other day, I had “Dealer Pricing” as a builder, they started cutting away on the price break till they did away with it all together. That break helped take up the shipping. I would round-up to the NRA fund and he got all the credit. When they did away with the dealer pricing I was told we would get the sales magazines with free shipping on items, NEVER got it once but the dealer price stop , so did I. Midway is an EXtremely Last resort now regardless.
Besides their absurd shipping charges for smaller items; is it THAT hard to buy boxes to ship these in without using a 12″x14″ box that is five times the required size?
And if they’re using USPS for shipping why not use the Priority Mail boxes which ship for a flat fee? There are NO weight charges using this method. Hell, you could ship fifteen 100ct boxes of bullets for $11.30 anywhere in the US.
By the pound they’d be charging over $30!
Meh, Powder Valley and Third Generation do it better with more stock.
I had E-Mailed Larry several years back about his HIGHER than normal shipping rates-specifically WHY he did NOT use the USPS for small items that would easily shipped that way.
He mentioned that USPS did not offer a Pick-up service for him–Hard to believe.
The $18.+ shipping for a brick of 22 ammo is unacceptable and as previously mentioned ammo loose in the packaging is uncalled for simple shrink wrap would eliminate that.
Jim
Shipping USPS flat rate makes SO much sense – the box is FREE, they accommodate accounts to take care of the payment and postage generation, and they do pickups. And, since the current service level is Priority 2-Day, many shipments will be received earlier. Does lower cost AND faster delivery make sense for a BUSINESS that supposedly is very interested in providing superior customer service? Were I the local post office in the area of their major shipping points I would have long ago put together a very compelling proposal to get their business.
The above noted, there are MANY companies that COULD benefit themselves and their customers by using USPS flat rate shipping. With the postal service always seeming to be low on funds, the extra business SHOULD make a ton of sense to them also.
So, WHY is USPS flat rate NOT being used by major businesses???