Shipping Costs, Etc.

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We've all seen websites which ask you for a zip code and calculate shipping
costs on the fly during the checkout process.  Would a system like that
work for the Commissary?

Patrick
pfwhalen at gmail.com

On Tuesday, November 3, 2015, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> List,
>
> As Alex has pointed out there are other factors that come into shipping
> that buyers do not generally see or care about.
>
> If the Commissary makes a profit on shipping- that is a good thing. It's
> not about breaking even. The time and materials spent to package an item
> are not free.
>
> Anyone who has done any amount of shipping, let's say on eBay as I have
> done for 15 years would know that you can make a small profit on shipping.
> At the same time- as Alex said- having the customer pay the exact amount
> for shipping would be highly tedious.
>
> If this was Amazon or some other vendor, I might complain about shipping
> costs- but for the NWHS, I don't, it's a small organization trying to make
> ends meet.
>
> Jeff Lisowski
>
> --
> "Sic Semper Tyrannis!"
>
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