23 Feb
2002
23 Feb
'02
9:09 a.m.
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
If you ship via USPS Priority Mail, they'll give
you a box for free and lend
you the pen to write the address on it. Since a cable isn't easy to break,
you won't be needing Sunday's paper for padding. Unfortunately, they don't
pick up, but they're both cheaper and faster than UPS.
Yup. For small items, USPS is my choice. But even with a free box &
label, if you count bookkeeping and trip time, actual shipping plus
$5.10 handling ain't even close to minimum wage.
And on the buyers' side, $9 shipping is about what it would cost me in
time & gas to drive around and get one.
Unless the seller is obviously a business, I just don't see total S&H
of under $10 as being excessive if the item is bigger than a couple of
SIMMs....
Doc