While that's true about the weight, due to the practicalities about how we insist on everything being perfect to the max, nobody every ships more than one brick in a medium flat rate box, or let me rephrase that: except for a few extra decks, nobody . . . We say 18 max. Two bricks is too tight, and - although it will fit, it's just not a good idea because it's too easy to ding them and not enough room for adequate padding.chach wrote:Another thing that makes me take pause is, why not go flat rate? A Medium Flat rate box (box provided free of charge by USPS) costs $11.30 retail to ship through my Stamps.com account. The inner dimensions of that box are 11 x 8.5 x 5.5, enough for a few bricks and no weight limit. I know because I've filled one full of lead weights and shipped it no problem. Damn thing weighed nearly a metric shit tonne and they took it with *almost* no complaints.
A small flat rate box is $5.25 and will easily fit 4 decks in it. And then we have the Flat Rate padded envelopes, which are the same size as the ones that were used for the Origins decks when they were wrapped in one padded envelope then stuffed in another. Easily accommodate 6 decks and costs $5.70 to ship. And these are all priority flat rates, taking 1-3 business days to deliver.
In such cases, I don't see why someone would choose to charge $12 to ship 4 decks when they can put them in a flat rate box and ship them for less than $6. The only reason is they want to pull a profit on the shipping & "handling" charge. Kinda like Ticketmaster's outrageous handling charges (which they just settled a court case for).
Granted all this is for US based customers. Can't use flat rate boxes for the international crowd without getting screwed.
Some people put up to 8 decks in a small FR box, but I surely wouldn't nor would I allow someone else shipping for me to do so. Again, even dropping it would end up with a wrinkled tuck - at least one, and depending on how it was dropped it might not even show anything outside the box. Frankly, the one time in 5 years I've ever had a small FR box end up with a damaged deck in it - I had shipped a single deck. It must have been dropped 5 meters because it had three different creases in the tuck, and the outside box had absolutely no indication of damage whatsoever. Indianapolis Indiana - for some reason the world's highest defect rate. The must have a loose belt on the way off the planes.
Also the confirmation email is displaying the proper information.
