I have the worst luck shipping ANYTHING through ANYONE. I've vowed to never ship anything again after UPS lost a Champion Pub NOS playfield that I built a wooden crate for and shipped it to Virginia but it never made it and it took 4 1/2 months to get this settled...UGH!! That was the last straw for me.
Anyways, other then shipping a Tshirt or two through USPS I'm done with it. It's just more trouble then it's worth. I'm glad I'm at the point where there's really nothing I'm looking for so I don't have to worry about how to get it here. Glad to see you had some good experiences to share but everyone from STI to Beltmann to UPS has all been a nightmare for me over the years and I'm done with all of them.
Best of luck,
John