I am guessing that the case is: "...then the company is probably discounting shipping based on their margin with the product." I don't know and can only state from past experiences. I had a 30cc Edge which is a rather large box (around 75 inch wing span) shipped to me on the east coast from the west coast and the freight was around 50-60 dollars.

I know most of the post are dealing with planes and my post was primarily referring to items in general. I do agree that some of these planes and packages can be a handful. We have some packages that we struggle getting boxed and so forth and often as you stated we just eat or absorb the loss as they say.

When dealing with planes I think the large size boxes pose the largest issues. You can ship heavier boxes, but when you get into oversize you have issues. Most of what our company ships is in the normal size loads, when dealing with truck freight it is multiple items per pallet and always full pallets if possible. I know I have heard them say that they operate on pennies on the dollar. In other words their margins are tiny.

One thing I am hopeful for is that fuel prices will change for the better. I know it ain't much hope, but I still have it and am holding out for better days. Everything in the US and much of the world deals with the cost of fuel.