The ocean crossing changes who shows up on the quote, not just what it costs. A 32 lb stand bag, boxed to 50 by 14 by 12 inches, priced between $230.39 and $344.93 to Honolulu on 2026-08-18. USPS and FedEx both answered across five service tiers. UPS answered zero of them — not one UPS rate came back for this box on this lane, which is worth knowing before you count on it.
The identical stand bag box costs far less on a mainland lane. The ocean crossing is most of the gap.
A 32 lb full set of clubs in a stand bag, boxed to 50 by 14 by 12 inches, quoted from Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922 to Honolulu, HI 96813. Every service that returned a price is in the table below, sorted cheapest first.
| Carrier and service | Price | Quoted transit |
|---|---|---|
| USPS Ground Advantage | $230.39 | 6-7 business days |
| FedEx 2Day | $279.14 | 2-3 business days |
| FedEx SmartPost | $280.73 | 15-16 business days |
| USPS Priority Mail | $282.47 | 3-4 business days |
| FedEx Priority Overnight | $344.93 | 1 business day |
| UPS, all services | No parcel option returned | — |
The cheapest and fastest rows are not a matched pair the way they usually are on a mainland lane. USPS Ground Advantage wins on price at $230.39 with a full week in transit; FedEx Priority Overnight wins on speed at $344.93 for next-day delivery. FedEx SmartPost sits in between on price but well behind on time, at 15 to 16 business days.
UPS's own domestic shipping services page, read 2026-08-18, does not describe every tier the same way for Hawaii. Some services are explicit about being excluded.
| UPS service | What the page says about Hawaii |
|---|---|
| UPS Ground | Delivers to all 50 states and Puerto Rico; no Hawaii-specific detail given |
| UPS 3 Day Select | Delivers to the 48 contiguous states only |
| UPS 2nd Day Air A.M. | Delivers to the 48 contiguous states and limited addresses in Alaska and Hawaii |
| UPS 2nd Day Air | Delivers to all 50 states and Puerto Rico, with some limitations in Alaska and Hawaii |
| UPS Next Day Air Saver | Delivers to the 48 contiguous states only |
| UPS Next Day Air | Delivers to all 50 states and Puerto Rico |
Two of the tiers we would expect to see on a ground-priority box, 3 Day Select and Next Day Air Saver, are named as contiguous-states-only on UPS's own page, which rules them out for Honolulu outright. Ground itself carries no such exclusion in the wording, yet it still returned nothing on this quote. This page states the observed outcome rather than claiming to know every reason behind it: on 2026-08-18, for this box, on this lane, UPS priced none of its services.
USPS Ground Advantage was the cheapest line in this capture and also the slowest, at 6-7 business days. A club shipment timed around a tee time belongs on FedEx 2Day or Priority Overnight instead, at a real cost difference.
Every UPS service came back empty for this box to Honolulu in our capture. USPS and FedEx are the two carriers to compare when Hawaii is the destination.
The identical 50 × 14 × 12 in stand bag carton quoted $53.51 to Boston and $96.17 to Denver in our own mainland captures on the same day; the ocean crossing accounts for most of the gap seen here, not the clubs.
Carrier network coverage and rate tables change without notice, and Hawaii-bound service is one of the areas most likely to shift. Treat the figures above as one dated capture and pull a fresh quote for the box and date you actually have.
$230.39 to $344.93 for a 32 lb stand bag in a 50 by 14 by 12 inch carton, quoted Berkeley Heights, NJ to Honolulu, HI on 2026-08-18. USPS Ground Advantage was cheapest at $230.39; FedEx Priority Overnight was fastest, at $344.93 for next-day delivery.
Not on our capture. Zero UPS options came back for this stand bag on this lane. UPS's own domestic services page, read 2026-08-18, states that 3 Day Select and Next Day Air Saver deliver only to the 48 contiguous states, and that 2nd Day Air A.M. reaches only limited addresses in Hawaii. Whatever the exact cause, the practical result on this quote was no UPS price at all.
15 to 16 business days against 2 to 3, in our capture. SmartPost is a ground and induction service that hands packages to a partner network for part of the route; stacked on top of the ocean crossing to Honolulu, that handoff is what stretches the window so far past the faster tiers.
No. The 50 by 14 by 12 inch carton we quoted was accepted without a size objection by USPS Ground Advantage, USPS Priority Mail, FedEx 2Day, FedEx SmartPost and FedEx Priority Overnight alike.
Not necessarily. Carrier availability and pricing on this lane shift by box size, origin, and day. Quote your own club box and ZIP codes in the calculator rather than relying on this one capture.