shipping

i couldent see a place to put place in the market area to ask this so im gona ask it here - please move to the right area if this is not the correct place

What is with the conus stuff on most posts ?

are hawaii and alaska that bad ?

i have lived here in ahwaii for the last 3 years and have purchased stuff from ebay and stores on line and people seem to either not ship to hawaii or want to charge 5 times as much

shiping to hawaii is a bit more if you ship with fed ex or ups

but most people ship usps priority and its not that bad

pre paid boxes make a huge diffrence and i have been told many times on ebay they cost more to hawaii or my best ever - i have to go to the post office to fill out custms forms so i have to charge you for my time

now i dont mind paying the extra But - i dont like being ripped of i have to deal enough with that from lcoal stores ( canon lens +$100 or a loaf of bread for $6)

Aren't there other delivery company? From what I see, you would have to look around for the cheapest delivery method. It is maybe due to the fact that Hawaii is in the middle of the Pacific, that UPS and Fed-ex is charging so much?

Be thank full your not up here in Canada I can get stuff shipped to my winter address in Arizona for say $4 bucks, the same item to Canada is $40 bucks, and then the goverment wants another chunk. So much for free trade.

I don't mind paying extra and I don't mind waiting for surface (ship on water ) it only adds 7 days and costs not that much more but people just guess at prices or automticaly click air

And I have found a lot of people will only ship 1 way they like fedex or ups and that's all they will use no choice

and I agree -it dosent cost 900 % more to ship to Canada either
flat rate box = win

According to USPS.com... Mailing 2 identical packages from NJ to Beverly Hills and NJ to Maui are the exact same price.
Customs booklets can be ordered online and mailed to your house for free.

Roy G. Biv wrote in post #8606639
According to USPS.com... Mailing 2 identical packages from NJ to Beverly Hills and NJ to Maui are the exact same price.
Customs booklets can be ordered online and mailed to your house for free.

You don't need customs form Hawaii is in America - I was told by a guy I was buying solar panels from that I needed them and he wanted to charge me $100 for filling them out

I'll do it. I've shipped overseas.Educate me in what normal shipping is and we'll adjust. Sometimes for CONUS I'll do two if it's cheap enough, like $1 more. Some people though a fit over that I'm sure.

The flate rate boxes are definitely the way to go... they even do international flat rate boxes. I normally put CONUS but that's out of habit - I dont have any issue shipping to Alaska or Hawaii.