So if I am ordering something across the ocean, compared to me sending something to a friend across the ocean, I pay more than 5 times more for sending a package than just ordering something from the same place, and it’s always like that. Do businesses get some special deal or something?
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Almost every part of the process that you’re paying for, except the fuel, doesn’t scale with the size of your package. If I ship a pallet or a single smallbox, almost all the steps are the same. But a pallet might contain 10 or 100 or 1000 items. All the cost for the paperwork, scheduling, tracking, people, etc. is spread across all those items.
If you have just 1 item, you have to carry that entire cost on your one item.
Taking it even farther, suppose I have one 100 lbs box that costs $100 to ship. If that box contains your one thing, it’s going to cost $100 to ship. If it contains 200 0.5 lbs items it’s *exactly the same* to the shipping company but it only costs $0.50 per item.
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