USPS charges a not insignificant amount for shipping heavy items to Alaska (excluding media mail that frequently takes months and few retailers ever use). If physical stores sold anything at a reasreasonable price (aside from off season fishing /hunting /cold equipment) fewer people would use Amazon.
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Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoOr any other online store? I have seen very few that won’t ship via USPS and USPS delivers everywhere.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
For twice the price, triple the wait time, and if you juggle like 40 accounts sure.