UPS is ships on a who's who basis. They ship for some and not others. I used to use UPS exclusively because they are 2 minutes from my house. When I first started shipping the average was around $25 guaranteed by 10:30 am. In all the shipments I had, only one was lost, and actually wasn't lost it was just late. This was one out of many hundreds of shipments. All others were on time.

I have been using Fed Ex for about 2 years now because of the skyrocketing rates of UPS. That average $25 shipment went to around $70 and that was 2 years ago. My average shipment with Fed Ex is around $50 now.....but has been as little as $28 for overnight by 10 am. I know of several other well known breeders that use UPS, but most have switched to Fed Ex because of their "agreement" to ship animals.