Probably the standard complaint - everything is over packed, so maybe the floats have been wrapped in bubble wrap, put in an envelope and then put in a cardboard box..... Now weights four times as much, and volume has increased ten times!
Actually, I think it is down to the cost of living in that part of the world. Most business have set postage rates so that they don't have to keep working out a new rate for each post job. The cost of labour to do that task would exceed the value of the goods being sent.
That why I am always amazed at some of the cost of good coming from the far east, free postage and the cost of the item is less than the cost postage, so how do they make any money? Then you get the cheap item which has so much postage cost on it that it become too expensive to buy!
Other than asking if there is a different method for posting the parts to you, I think it would take every customer to complain about the cost of postage before they would change it to anything else as standard.
Like Gary, Grumble, Grumble, grumble, postage costs, grumble, grumble......
John
Haflinger 703AP LWB 1973 - (Once owned by Lady Sutherland & Sons.) Now called "Lurch" !
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