Whenever you are buying or selling online, for example on eBay, and you are trying to determine if a shipping price is fair, keep in mind there is more to shipping than just the cost of postage.

For example, if you are shipping a hard drive that weighs 3 pounds, you still have to:

• pack it in a box
• secure it with popcorn/bubble wrap
• seal the box
• take it to the shipping office
• (possibly) wait in line

All this takes time… and as we know, time is money. Granted some of these steps can be streamlined if you ship multiple packages at once or have doorstep pickup, but for the most part there is still cost involved.

So keep all this in mind when you determining (or paying) shipping.