If you can do what I usually do is buy the machines in the cities that I have buddies in get them to pick them up and if they come down my way or I go there I will get them then. I have even had a few items travel around the country on a relay before they have gotten to me like my Singer storefront lighted signs. It only took 8 months to get them but it was worth it and only cost me a case of beer.
Billy