If you look at some of the on line fabric shops, they will often tell you how much they can squeeze into a mailing for a certain price. Thousands of Bolts springs to mind. I've ordered from them any number of times and when it comes to check out, there will be a pop up that says they can get 'x' number of yards into the mailer for the same price. So while I may have been ready to order 4 yards of something, I will often go back and add another 4 or 5 yards to my order for the sake of the shipping charges. Also, I just got an order from Marmalade Fabrics that had 6 yards of fabric. The shipping was $5. The fabric came in one of those cardboard postal mailers and let me tell you, that thing was bursting.
Last edited by sparkys_mom; 06-08-2013 at 03:17 AM.