[Milsurplus] trading up

[Military1944 at aol.com]

>>>Not including postage itself, it costs me between $40 and  $55 in direct 
and indirect expenses >>to ship one small package.   For a larger item going 
Priority Mail the cost is about $10 to $15  >>more.  Costs are a combination of 
time to complete forms, time  and petrol for the round trip to >>the PO, time 
spent waiting in line to  get up to the counter (in the que) and time spent at 
the  >>counter. 


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I guess it all depends upon if its a full time tax paying business or just  
hams trading I guess. If I charged for my time and such just to post off a plug 
 to some other operator, as a ham not a business, then I guess that would 
indeed  bump up the total cost involved to get it from my hand into theirs. 
 
But, I tend to use pre-used materials, maybe the odd bit of new (and very  
costly) sticky tape or glue, then rather than make a special trip to the post  
office (of course in the UK, being a tiny little island, they are within  
walking distance most times) I simply take the envelope with me the next time I  go 
to town to buy a stale loaf. This way the expense to the buyer of the plug is 
 limited to the cost of the postage. Seems I might be doing myself out of a 
lot  of money. So, if everone could send me $5 to pay for my time writing this, 
 switching on the pc, the broadband connection, the coffee needed to wake up, 
 then I should be covered. 
 
No, just joking....  about the $5 that is, not the rest.  
 
Anyway, I guess the answer is to only buy non US sets in future. That  should 
save a lot of hassel, hi. 
 
HAND,   Ben.
 



   
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