Shipping Costs Quotes

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

I've gotten emails from people who purchased items from an infomercial, only to find out that the shipping was more expensive than the item itself. The lesson: If you truly want to order something you see on TV, go online to the product's website and see if you can find out more information.

Exporting is fun

Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.

I never predict freight rates; nobody can do that.

From Virginia and Maryland are exported communibus annis 90,000 hogsheads of tobacco to Great Britain of which it I supposed 60,000 of them are then exported. But these colonies not being permitted to send their tobacco immediately in proportion to their [foreign] demands, the re-exported tobacco pays double freight, double insurance, commission and other shipping charges. If the [other British] colonies were not restrained from directly importing foreign commodities they would … pay less for them, even by 50 percent, than they do at present

Nobody likes a loss, but we're in the postal business. We can't make a profit.

Information about the package is as important as the package itself.

Things are expensive, very expensive in Israel for many reasons. One of the reasons is our ports. It's a monopoly. They run very poorly. And we have ships that are stuck in the ocean for three or four days or a week, and all that cost is transferred to the products and the consumer.

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

I spend my time hearing a lot of schmoozers discuss the tariff and … the mails from Paducah to Scholarie.

The problem with online shopping is that you cannot feel the fabric.

Although eBay is a fantastic tool for collectors who want to buy or sell, you really have to have knowledge of items before you embark.

Dispatch received. By what route shall I send?

Everybody has to build double-hull tankers, but charterers don't want to pay for the extra costs.

Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

Sea freight is by far the cheapest, most economical way to move goods.

Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters.

It costs a lot of money to deliver newsprint. It's so much easier to do it through the air, Internet, radio, television. The second easiest thing is to do it through the mail. But when you have to take something heavy and put it on someone's doorstep, that costs a lot of money.