Shipping

I've notice over the past year that shipping costs from different companies varies greatly. Even shipping from one country to another. Most days I feel like the postal system I deal with has very high shipping costs. Though having worked in a mail room for a bit I understand how they calculate shipping costs and have been able to work at trying to keep my actual shipping costs down. Most of the time when I send out something from my Etsy shop I lose money on the shipping.

Our postal systems works on a system that bills by either weight or volumetric weight. Which ever one is higher. Most of my Etsy shop parcels have cost around $7.00 CDN to ship in canada or to the USA. My largest sale went 3 to 5 days insured and trackable for about $12.00 CDN to the USA.

I would love to hear about other peoples shipping costs and how they deal with it. I sometimes wonder if it is my high shipping costs that keep people from making a purchase in my shop.

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