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Old 05-21-2016, 11:48 AM
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I agree. The USPS rates can vary a lot depending on package weight, size and destination.

With that being said, we offer free shipping and handling on orders $ 89.99 and up!

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Ha! Brian this is funny. I was about to give BRS a plug and came across your post!

Hope things are going well up that way!

As for shipping rates, they are very expensive regardless of what you're sending. Mostly I ship books now, not OOP rockets and I use book rate because everything else is just too high. One extreme example is sending 1 small paperback to the UK cost $23. I can send 3 in the same package anywhere in the U.S. for under $5. Makes Kindle a very good deal unless you really want a book to hold. Many people still do and will pay the shipping.

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Old 05-23-2016, 04:27 PM
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There's really no such thing as "free shipping." You always pay for shipping. Sometimes it is added to the cost of the order. Other times it is rolled into the price that you pay for what you buy.

Sometimes the "free shipping" isn't free. For example, Amazon's two-day free shipping with Amazon Prime costs $99 a year (and the price of items with "free" Prime shipping is sometimes greater than it would be without the free shipping).

Having said that, we (http://www.jonrocket.com) offer "free shipping" for US orders of $48 or more. :-)

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Old 05-23-2016, 07:08 PM
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Makes Kindle a very good deal unless you really want a book to hold.

It's not such a good deal when you are paying $50+ a month for anything over dialup speeds. That's $600+ a year so you can download a few books and hang out on old rocket forums.
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Old 05-23-2016, 07:15 PM
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Just like cars, internet speed costs $$$.
For extremely fast speeds, I don't find $50/mo out of line.
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Just like cars, internet speed costs $$$.
For extremely fast speeds, I don't find $50/mo out of line.

Problem is, I don't have access to the family sedan speed or even economy car speed. It's either sports car, or tricycle. In other words, there are no mid-level packages available here. I only have access to Charter 60 mbps and ATT DSL advertised "up to 6 mbps", but I'm a ways from the DSLAM and the lines are so terrible that I was getting sub dialup speeds when I ditched them. I seldom had more than 1.5 mbps with DSL, but when my speed tests started ending in -K- bps instead of -M-, it was time to go. All the while, they were saying it was my house wiring and not their fault, but the same routers and cat5e cables are allowing me to bounce off the top of Charter's 60 mbps bandwidth limiter on a very consistent basis.
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Old 05-23-2016, 08:17 PM
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ALL the DSL providers are flat-out LIARS.
Nobody EVER gets close to their advertised max-speeds.
Cable-modem is the ONLY way to go in my opinion.
I too have Charter 60Mb/s and it almost always is close to that.
Nobody I know of is ever disappointed with anything about Charter internet except the price.
My cable TV + internet costs almost $200/mo but I get every channel offered...that's too much and I should cut back. If my condo faced the correct direction I would go back to DirecTV in a heartbeat and just keep cable for the internet service only at $55/mo. I could get Dish Network, but I don't care for the packages they offer.
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