Repercussions of 9-11 turn up in the darndest places.
I sent email to an on-line vendor as follows:
I was about to buy:
[description of item here]
but then realized that shipping was twice the product cost.
Is there any reason something like this can’t be shipped by postal mail at a more realistic cost?
the item in question was less than six bucks in cost but shipping, by UPS, was nearly thirteen bucks,)
The reply was this:
“I’ll have to check for you after you suplly an address I can confirm a cost, since 9/11 we were restricted to only items that fit thru the new, reduced size mail slot, fyi.”
Seriously?!? On 9/11, did the terrorists sneak those airliners into the World Trade Center through the mail slot?