March 29th, 2008
I have a need for some Tetra Gun teflon grease. (I have a tube somewhere; I just can't find it since we moved. And actually, I don't even need it for firearms; I need it to carefully lubricate a few sticking spots in the load/unload mechanism of an LTO1 tape drive.)
Problem: No-one locally seems to carry it. I can find it online no problem, at around $4 for a one-ounce tube ... but then they want $12-$15 to ship it to me. GROUND. Hello?!? WTF? I could ship a one-ounce item across the US second-day air for that. I could almost overnight it. I shipped a HP calculator from California to Holland for less.
$15 domestic ground shipping for a $4 one-ounce item — that is neither fragile, perishable nor hazardous — goes beyond ludicrous into "How stupid are you trying to say I look?"
(Crossposted to guns)