> (Also, why even bother charging me $4? Just make next-day shipping free and charge $4 more for the thing.) Because people are psychologically manipulable idi

> (Also, why even bother charging me $4? Just make next-day shipping free and charge $4 more for the thing.) Because people are psychologically manipulable idiots. They'll click on the cheapest search result and go buy from the other site that lists it as $4 less. Also, multiple items let you combine shipping. > Lasership and A1? Yeah right. I love it when they try to deliver packages to my office at 10PM. Lasership is actually pretty reliable for me, but that's in midtown NYC, probably their most highly serviced area. I find USPS capable of doing the same scheduling idiocy. USPS tried to deliver one package to my office mail room at 6:30 PM for four consecutive days. A week later I finally went to the PO one morning to pick it up, and inexplicably that day they had actually decided to send it out during normal hours. That day there was a pile of 10 packages at the receptionist so I wasn't the only one. UPS seems to be the most reliable for actual ground delivery, and certainly the best with tracking status when something does go awry. Fedex is about 90%, but occasionally they will do stupid things like fail a delivery if the named person isn't there to sign, and bury it off at some warehouse 10 miles away with instructions for you to go pick it up. Oh, and as the sibling comment says, Fedex SmartPost is the most hellishly horrible thing to ever happen to internet commerce. I'm convinced Amazon invented it entirely to dick around and make you wish you'd paid for real shipping instead.