I'm not taking sides, just making a couple observations: - I could be wrong but my gut feeling is the AF1 weighs more than 3 oz. (14, probably not). Also, it's not just the weight of the item, but the weight of the packaging too.
- It may be reasonable for a company to charge more for shipping than the rate that USPS charges the company. There are added costs such as people's time for processing/packaging/delivering/etc... these are real costs. We can say that they may subsidize these costs by marking up other items such as radios, but without knowledge of their business models, we really can't make accurate assumptions. Again I'm not taking sides, just sayin' --Andrew, NV1B On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Doug Person <[email protected]> wrote: > Excuse the bandwidth and feel free to just hit delete if you don't want > to listen to me complain about your favorite company. > > I ordered an AF1 active filter mini-module from Elecraft. Just > something fun to build and play with. The price is $59.95. OK, fine. > However, they won't ship it First Class even though their website say > First Class is fine for things up to 14oz. I'm sure the AF1 weighs less > than 3 ounces. First Class shipping for this little package would > probably be about $2.00 or less. ... ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
