Customer Freight Options
Shipments are made F.O.B. Butner, North Carolina via one of the following options:
- Third Party Billing - carrier chosen by customer. Customers can specify the carrier and have freight charges billed directly to the customer by providing the Newton customer service representative with: the customer’s account number with the specified carrier and the customer’s billing address for freight charges, if it is different from the product billing address.
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Newton Prepaid Freight - carrier chosen by Newton. Customers can have Newton pay freight charges to the carrier and have freight cost added to the product invoice. Newton offers this service provided the customer agrees to the following conditions:
- Carrier is specified by Newton. We have contractual obligations with selected carriers to minimize shipping cost, Customer agrees to pay Newton all freight charges appearing on product invoices without requiring additional freight cost documentation.
- Customer agrees to pay Newton for freight costs associated with an order shipment but not contained in the initial product invoice. Such charges may result when specific freight charges from the carrier are not available at time of product invoicing. An example is additional charges from the carrier for inside delivery service required by the customer
Agreement to these conditions is implied when customer specifies prepaid freight with an order to Newton Instrument Company. These accepted conditions supersede any statements in customer purchase orders restricting the obligation to pay freight charges appearing on Newton invoices or requiring additional freight cost documentation from Newton
Newton Instrument Company reserves the right to withdraw the prepaid freight option at any time.
When damage is determined to be caused by the freight carrier, the customer is responsible for filing freight claims with the carrier.
Order Cancellations
Orders are subject to cancellation only by mutual agreement.