Ship Vs Send??

[sambistapt]

Hello amigos!

I ship/send books out to London every month.

What´s the difference between these verbs in the context above?

Thanks in advance;

Sambista

 

[The Scrivener]

Hello amigos!

I ship/send books out to London every month.

What´s the difference between these verbs in the context above?

Thanks in advance;

Sambista

Hi Sambista,

In BrEng, to ship something usually means that the package actally travels by sea.

"I send books out to London every month" - I hand them in at the post office and ask that they be sent by airmail.

 

[tinlizzy]

In AE ship and send are synonymous.

 

[Ecossaise]

In the UK, ship and send are synonymous. However, "ship" implies a larger quantity than "send". A publisher will ship 20,000 copies to Tesco and send one copy to the bookshop on the corner.

 

[The Scrivener]

Good point, Ecossaise. We wouldn't ship a postcard to some-one either, we would send it.

 

[tinlizzy]

That is a good point. We send things through the mail and ship things via UPS/FedEx.

 

[elroy]

But interestingly enough, if you order something online, you usually pay for shipping, no matter how small the item is or how it will be sent.

 

[Harry Batt]

Commercial terms live on even after death as elroy finds true. Eg., Harry say, "I'll send it to you tomorrow." The response I've never heard is not, "How are you going to send it?" More likely, "How are you going to ship it?" My generation still calls a refrigerator an ice box.

 

[zaffy]

She sells her used clothes online on Poshmark and says she needs to pack and ship out the stuff she's sold.
Now, would you be happy if I replaced "ship out" with "send" in this example? Or would it imply something different?

 

[Hans in Texas]

Zaffy, you resurrected a very old post. I associate “send” with a small to medium-size parcel or box(something I can carry in one hand) “ship”means a larger container which I must present at a post office or UPS office for weighing etc.(requiring both hands to carry). A business such as you describe probably ships it’s orders.

 

[Joetofu]

Now, would you be happy if I replaced "ship out" with "send" in this example?

“Ship out” is more common in this context, but I wouldn’t think it strange if she said “send out” or “send.”

Or would it imply something different?

No, it wouldn’t.