Did shipping just get even more expensive?

Comment · Sun, August 31, 2025 · 5 pts

Since you said you are in Norway, that's likely a remote area delivery fee that the private carriers assess for addresses that are outside their normal routes. Since we don't have a list of every address in the world in

Comment · Sun, August 31, 2025 · 3 pts

The supreme court will likely take the case up, and then drag out their ruling on it. I have zero faith they will actually end in October. They'll take up the case, stay the ruling while they assess, then wait till the a

Comment · Sun, August 31, 2025 · 7 pts

This guy is in Norway, so very different pricing. We don't even offer USPS first class in the US anymore. The lowest shipping we offer is FedEx 2 day. That's what our free shipping is. We spend hundreds of thousands of d

Comment · Sun, August 31, 2025 · 5 pts

They're not fees from us. It's a remote area delivery fee that the mail carriers charge for his address in Norway. It's just separated out because that's how the table rates for his zone are set. Many international addre

Comment · Sun, August 31, 2025 · 4 pts

Normally it doesn't split it out like that. It just shows it all as the shipping fee. However, when we created this zone to update the remote area fees, the checkbox got left on, separating the base shipping rate from th

Comment · Mon, September 1, 2025 · 5 pts

Yeah, so it looks like on your previous orders, we were getting charged over double what you were paying for shipping. We just ate that cost ourselves. After we noticed, we adjusted your shipping zone for the extra fees.

Comment · Thu, September 4, 2025 · 2 pts

It's based on the routes the private carriers have. While you might not consider it a remote area in the absolute sense, it might be remote from the routes the carriers have in the area. This is why all these changes to

Comment · Fri, September 19, 2025 · 3 pts

Depends on your time scale and the crisis. It certainly went up in the 08 crisis.

Comment · Wed, September 24, 2025 · 3 pts

Yeah, it seems China is poised and preparing to fill the gaps in the US influence receding. China has their own problems, for sure. However, they are more unified on their strategy.