Some insight into US Mail shipping and how to package items for it, from someone who hauls it.

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85. Well...you can think of it this way;

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I used to haul cars, and worked for a firm that hauled out of the Ford Wayne Assembly plant. At the time the Ford Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator were built there.

Directly across the street, literally visible from the doors the finished units exited the plant, is a Ford dealership.

The Expedition’s sold at that store had the exact same transportation fee as a dealer in Anchorage would have.

Think of your $.55 stamp the same way.

The price doesn’t vary if I carry your mail 10 miles or 3000.

And by the way, the use of mail contractors has been the norm for decades. It’s not new.