I love the flat rate boxes. Sure, it may seem like a lot but they provide the packaging and tracking and a base amount of insurance are all covered.
Is not the best way maybe to send something like a pillow or a t-shirt -- but if you want to send some marble bookends, they are the way to go!
Small box the size of a paperback book/vhs tape is roughly $9.00. Middle size $14, and large $20. Whatever fits, ships.
Early in the epidemic a friend of mine had plenty of flour but yeast was the thing she couldn't get. I bought a 2 lb or something like that package from Costco, which fit diagonally in the medium box. Since I had room, I threw in a couple rolls of fancy/nice Charmin for padding and then I laughed and went out to my garden, picked up a small (fist sized rock) washed it off, put in a baggy with a note that: Yes, this is a rock. Because this is a flat rate package and I think I'm funny.
Fortunately, my friend thinks I'm funny too and was down to the last rolls of paper on the spindles and none in the stores when the package arrived
