Actual shipping costs (not shipping and handling which is what you often get charged by merchants) are pretty inexpensive when operating at the scale Amazon doe

Actual shipping costs (not shipping and handling which is what you often get charged by merchants) are pretty inexpensive when operating at the scale Amazon does. My family had a small factory so I got a good sense of what the shipping cost was vs. the handling. It was very inexpensive years ago befor oil prices went up, but I suspect there is still generous slop in the shipping charges for most merchants.