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Logistics and transportation are areas where efficiency makes for a successful bottom line; many industries have been lured from North America by lower overhead, less regulation, and more freedom to dump waste. The last thing industry here in the First World needs is a disaster that interrupts the supply line to industries like metal stamping of parts for larger industries. Deadlines for delivery, the cost of shipping - vital factors like these can become unmanageable during a sustained interruption of the logistical chain.

Take for example the raw materials and machinery needed to operate a custom metal stamping factory that makes parts that require custom parts made with difficult forms or deep drawing to fill the order that makes another company tick. The stamping factory will need special tools and stamping machinery. The best equipment would be most likely imported from Germany where the highest quality machinery is produced. The German equipment comes in across the ocean into a city like Detroit or Chicago, where it may change over to finish the journey by rail. Then the rolls of steel or aluminum have to come in from another continent perhaps. All of this cargo is typical to shipping on the Great Lakes. An accident or sabotage along one of the canals or locks could paralyze many industries, and in fact both accidents and sabotage have occurred along the Welland Canal.

It was a clear and pleasant evening several miles from where I grew up in Welland, in a small town called Allenburg along the canal heading north to St. Catherines. Allenburg is basically a coffee shop, a stoplight, an antique store - oh yes...and one lift bridge. Canal bridges are pretty easy to drive - one stick makes them go up, the other stick makes them go down. You see the lake boat coming, raise the bridge; after the boat passes, lower it and raise the gates for the long line of cars to continue on their way. It seems simple enough but when the lake freighter Windoc, carrying $8 million dollars worth of grain was passing through the bridge began to come down before the ship had cleared. The funnel crashed into the span and was sheared off, destroying the freighter and the bridge. The Seaway had to close for several days, causing a chain-reaction as boats had to set anchor. The bridge had to remain in the up position for the rest of the shipping season, to the consternation of drivers who had to take a detour for nearly a year. N.M. Paterson and Sons, the owners of the Windoc had to sue the Seaway operators for $16.8 million to recover their losses but the day-to-day losses cost time and money to thousands of other businesses due to interruption in production.

Security along the Welland canal in Ontario is practically non-existent; the last sabotage plot was in 1916 when German diplomat Franz von Papen threatened to blow up the canal, but he had already been expelled from the U.S. for espionage. A dynamite charge was planted on the hinges of one of the locks in 1900 doing minor damage. When it comes to sabotage the official story of the 2000 - 2008 White House regarding terrorists states that terrorists are everywhere waging war on North American soil yet there's an easy target on the Canadian side of the border that would cause havoc if taken out by explosives. Without bridges and lift locks St. Lawrence Seaway would close for a long period and disrupt the economy. Interrupting logistics is a basic tenet of military strategy. The answer is that the corporatists and extremely wealthy elite are in control of events and they will only destroy things when it's in their interests, such as the military implosion demolition of the obsolete, largely non rentable, asbestos-ridden towers of the World Trade Center. Anyone who works with steel will tell you that fires can't cause skyscrapers to collapse and explode into a fine dust. The implosion that removed Building 7 was recorded from many angles. All three buildings went down at the speed of gravity, the hallmark of controlled demolition. They who own the cargo protect the route on which it travels.

Pat Boardman, pen name Patrick Rudman, is an SEO consultant writing in respect to Taurus Stampings of London Ontario who use metal stamping machinery for custom metal stamping processes such as deep drawing and difficult forms in sheet metal stamping.

Tips on Drop Shipping Your Ebay Merchandise

Even though drop shipping is my least favorite way to make money on eBay, there are some cases where it will work. To have your e-bay products drop shipped can be a good way to get started. However, can you really count on it being delivered? And if delivered, delivered on time? And if on time, can you trust it will be delivered in one piece? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. You can depend on drop shippers. They are here to help buyers and make their lives a little less complicated.

You need to find a distributor who will drop ship for you. Once you decide on a distributor, you place your goods online. You place your good on e-bay and give a brief description of your good and add a picture to it too.

There are many drop shipping companies nowadays. You need to make sure that you find a company you can depend on. A company that will deliver on time and wont cost you, your customers.

When a customer buys your product, and has paid you for the same. You send the order to your distributor. The distributor will then drop shift the goods to your customers. The package will show that you are the sender. It will have your address and information on it, without you having to actually ship it. That is why it is called drop shipping.

If your distributors successfully drop ship for you, it can be a win-win situation for the two of you. You will not have to stock your e-bay inventory and your distributor will not have to worry about the retail sales.

Do be careful because there are many distributors out there who will offer to drop ship but who aren't very reliable. You definitely will not want to try using them. If a good is delivered late or broken or not delivered at all, the customer will hold you responsible. The customer does not care that it is the distributors fault; he/she will hold you responsible. You can't blame your customers for being mad at you because if you were in their shoes, you would do exactly the same.

The Drop shipping business has the highest number of scams in the industry. Many times companies will pose as the drop shipper, when in many cases they are just another middleman between you and the real drop shipper. Be sure to research any company that you choose to use. You can also find drop shippers thru reputable product sourcing companies like nawca.org. Companies like this will not refer you to companies that are not true drop shippers. 

You should test your distributor, to make sure they are truly dependable. You can trick them by having an order sent to a friend or relative so that you can see how long they take and if they do it without breaking the merchandise. You will also learn if they are reliable or not and if they will indeed drop ship your eBay products within the specified time and with the right labels. 

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Question for you postal workers or postage gurus!?

When you use the free priority boxes the post office gives you- do they count as part of the weight? It sems cheaper when I ship with those boxes. (I don't care about flat rate boxes, those are always the same.)

Yes, they will count. It's as if you bring a box to mail to the post office, they're not going to take the stuff out of the box to weigh it. It's weighed together.

They don't weigh that much to really make a difference.

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