Think shipping is expensive in Canada? Try shipping in NORTHERN Canada. You have no idea.
I could dazzle you for days, but here’s two of the best:
I buy four screws and a washer for a drywall taping machine. Four screws, and a washer about the size of a nickel.
The guy on the phone says shipping will be $104.00. That’s right, one hundred and four dollars just for shipping, WITHIN CANADA! I respond with: “why wouldn’t you just drop them in a bubble envelope and mail them for about five bucks?”
A week later a small bubble envelope arrives with my screws and washer.
Another time I buy an extractor and pin for a Remington 22 semi auto rifle from a parts supplier in the states.
Both parts could be covered by a dime, literally.
A week or so later I receive a small box in the mail. It is full of bubble wrap, and in the bottom is the pin. About a sixteenth of an inch in diameter, about three eighths of an inch long. Postage was US$21.50.
The next day an identical box arrives, full of bubble wrap. In the bottom is the extractor. About the size of a fingernail clipping. Postage was also US$21.50.
Both parts could have easily been mailed in a normal envelope, for the price of a stamp.