Within the United States, I've found that the US Postal Service is the least expensive way for me to ship instruments to and from my home in Alaska. It's also been safer and almost as fast as shipping via UPS.
If the instrument is too large to go via USPS, as has happened with the baritone guitars I've owned, I use Fed Ex.
I won't fool with UPS any longer, not after they left a very valuable Martin guitar that was supposed to be released only with a signature on my front stoop in full view of the street at twenty below zero Farenheit sometime around 10 in the morning.
I discovered it when I got home from work around 6 pm.
I left it in its box in the garage overnight before opening it, and fortunately the guitar wasn't damaged (or stolen, those morons!) But no more UPS for me.
The post office has always been far more cautious than the UPS guy who wanted to get that big box off his truck....
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