The continental USA?
A.Depends on the weight of the package. Our minimum shipping charge is $3, no matter what UPS, Fedex or the Post Office charges (this allows us not to have to impose minimum orders). This covers many shipments of small packages of tubes & small parts inside the USA. Our on-line ordering program does a fairly good job of estimating ground UPS and airmail charges. Because of our fairly central location (Chicago), most of the USA (nearly everything from Colorado on east) is within 3 business days’ shipping time from us via good old UPS & Fedex Ground service. UPS & Fedex rates not only include tracking,but insurance as well, an extra cost item (which we require for items of any major value) for items sent by Post Office. So UPS/Fedex Ground service is usually the most cost effective and most prompt way to ship. We now have UPS, Fedex, and US Postal Service (domestic only) bar-coding system that allows for UPS, Fedex, and the USPS to process the packages we ship by more automated methods(i
