Moose,
I do not hesitate to ship by 1st class/Letter Airmail if I know the
person I am dealing with. As much as I ship, the last thing I want, is
people complaining about my delivery methods. I use Priority Mail
because I always way over pack so that it takes a box, and the box for
Priority is free if I do not have enough recycle boxes around. Once you
get up to 10 ounces, the difference between 1st class, and Prioity Mail
just go away considering the slight increase in price, and the delivery
time.
I know of the temptation of moving fees into shipping, but have avoided
doing so myself because I have seen some rather heated discussions of it
on different lists. I tend to undersetimate shipping (my scale is not
that accurate) and that makes me happy. I'll take a loss every now and
then just to avoid the hassle. I have gotten seriously burned by as much
as $10.00 in shipping overseas though, and I've done it more than a few
times. Stupid me. YMMV.
John
Moose wrote:
>
> For bigger, more valuable items I agree that nothing is close to
> matching Priority Mail for speed and value.
>
> For small, light, inexpensive items, even Priority Mail can be overkill.
> I've received several hoods and other similar items simply in bubble
> mailers via 1st. Class Mail and sent out a couple with nary a problem
> and charges of $1-3. I certainly tend to balk at high charges for such
> items, but will look at the total cost to judge what I want to pay. The
> 'Bay doesn't charge fees on shipping, so there may be a temptation to
> move some of the sales price into the shipping charge, I suppose.
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