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<blockquote data-quote="mandos" data-source="post: 2808351" data-attributes="member: 561347">If there was a courier service in Newton, we could do that.&nbsp; What&#039;s the difference though?&nbsp; $4 between us doing it and him having a courier.What you are paying is for a person to go somewhere to ship $6.40($5.12 with forum discount) worth of product and be out of the office for an extended period of time.&nbsp; They will not be answering customer phone calls, they will not be answering customer e-mails, they will not be shipping other items, they will not talking to local people who come in, they will not be QC&#039;ing product, and they will not be building product.&nbsp; They will just be sitting in line.Now, I don&#039;t know about you, but I don&#039;t know many businesses that could afford sending off employees to be gone for an extended period of time to ship something a customer pays $5 for.As for the second post office, that looks like the grocery store.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen a drop off for mail in their customer service section, but have never noticed full service postal options.&nbsp; If they can apply postage to things there and prevent people from being out of the office, it would definitely be cheaper.&nbsp; As it sits though, we can&#039;t afford to just have people sitting at the actual post office without being paid for it.And before you think, oh, you&#039;ve been there 2 or 3 times to do this, no, every single time we&#039;ve EVER sent someone there(probably 20~30 or so since we&#039;ve moved here) it&#039;s about an hour before they&#039;re back in the office.Also, unless the other post offices are extremely quick in their service, you&#039;re still killing 1/2 hour of driving time, combined with gas which would end up at about a gallon for someone getting 30MPG on the highway and whatever time it takes in their post office.&nbsp; I fail to see how that&#039;s any faster.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mandos, post: 2808351, member: 561347"] If there was a courier service in Newton, we could do that. What's the difference though? $4 between us doing it and him having a courier. What you are paying is for a person to go somewhere to ship $6.40($5.12 with forum discount) worth of product and be out of the office for an extended period of time. They will not be answering customer phone calls, they will not be answering customer e-mails, they will not be shipping other items, they will not talking to local people who come in, they will not be QC'ing product, and they will not be building product. They will just be sitting in line. Now, I don't know about you, but I don't know many businesses that could afford sending off employees to be gone for an extended period of time to ship something a customer pays $5 for. As for the second post office, that looks like the grocery store. I've seen a drop off for mail in their customer service section, but have never noticed full service postal options. If they can apply postage to things there and prevent people from being out of the office, it would definitely be cheaper. As it sits though, we can't afford to just have people sitting at the actual post office without being paid for it. And before you think, oh, you've been there 2 or 3 times to do this, no, every single time we've EVER sent someone there(probably 20~30 or so since we've moved here) it's about an hour before they're back in the office. Also, unless the other post offices are extremely quick in their service, you're still killing 1/2 hour of driving time, combined with gas which would end up at about a gallon for someone getting 30MPG on the highway and whatever time it takes in their post office. I fail to see how that's any faster. [/QUOTE]

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