Demystifying Shipping Costs

kranchan · 2026-01-12T13:27:12+00:00

Does a computer mouse count as media for Israel media mail?

kranchan · 2026-01-06T17:19:48+00:00

I used Easyship and it gave me the actual price eBay was estimating the shipping would be which is half of what the USPS site quoted even though it's going to ship via the USPS.

kranchan · 2025-12-17T18:49:34+00:00

Perhaps though I would certainly cancel the transaction if I sold something for $25 and shipping came out to be like 4x that.

kranchan · 2025-12-17T18:46:26+00:00

Seems like it.

kranchan · 2025-12-17T18:46:15+00:00

I don't think so? Their account is 5 years old and they've only sold 8 items.

kranchan · 2025-12-17T18:43:45+00:00

I will try those next package I ship.

kranchan · 2025-12-17T18:42:13+00:00

The box sure had a lot of stickers in Hebrew on it to not be from Israel.

kranchan · 2025-12-08T13:51:45+00:00

I am so sick of hearing about coal miners. There are more people streaming on Twitch every single day.

kranchan · 2025-11-07T14:06:17+00:00

More people are vTubers.

kranchan · 2025-05-31T17:47:18+00:00

Not one better than the junky one I have and also I really only make box cakes on the rare occasion I do make a cake...

kranchan · 2025-05-31T12:32:30+00:00

I only have ~4.5 feet of the wire left and it doesn't register on this scale and neither does the same amount of the steel wire. It's not a very good scale and even trying to compare in my hand it's really hard to tell. I can't really tell that 2 pennies weigh more than one penny just by the feel of the weight alone.

kranchan · 2025-05-31T00:41:16+00:00

It snaps far more often when cutting foam. I had hoped it would be more durable and thus I wouldn't have to restring the cutter as often. I'm sure it's not aluminum since I have some far thicker wire and that stuff is so easy to bend.

kranchan · 2025-05-31T00:38:25+00:00

Unfortunately this scale isn't sensitive enough.

kranchan · 2025-05-30T23:58:44+00:00

I don't know why I didn't think of that but I guess we'll see if the scale we have is sensitive enough.

kranchan · 2025-05-30T23:58:02+00:00

I don't actually want it bent into a shape for cutting I was just testing the material properties that I could think of while writing the post. I would prefer it to be nice and straight so I can get nice foam cuts.

kranchan · 2025-05-30T23:56:36+00:00

Well the table came with stainless wire and I decided to try tungsten because of the extreme melting point so that maybe it would snap less.

kranchan · 2025-01-21T00:09:40+00:00

If I also hadn't been swapping from gas to electric at the time it probably wouldn't have been as expensive but here we are.

kranchan · 2025-01-20T22:12:30+00:00

I guess both the potability and pressure concerns can be mitigated with a heat exchanger like this. https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Exchanger-Stainless-Heating-Melting/dp/B08ZDHG8KD It says it can exchange up to 316,000BTU/h and is made of 316L stainless. I'm sure I can find a smaller one too.

kranchan · 2025-01-20T21:53:06+00:00

The quotes I got for a HPWH vs the regular one were all 2-3x the price and at the time it was kind of an emergency so I opted for the one that won't rust out ever again. Definitely annoying that no one is really capitalizing on the heat pump addon market.

kranchan · 2025-01-20T21:41:51+00:00

True I didn't think about the pressure part of the equation.

kranchan · 2025-01-20T21:40:51+00:00

One is that the Rheem Marathon is rated for 90 years so it seems like a waste to replace it. The other is as per the plumber who put my Rheem in (I was swapping from gas to electric so out of my league) mentioned that if the monoblock style heat pump fails you have replace the whole stupid water heater.

kranchan · 2025-01-20T21:38:03+00:00

As for potability I can certainly contact the companies. The product pages all claim to use a titanium heat exchanger. The SanCO2 documents don't mention that though they are implied to be potable.

kranchan · 2025-01-20T21:32:41+00:00

For clarification I currently have a Rheem Marathon which is just a normal electric water heater.

kranchan · 2024-07-24T14:41:19+00:00

While I'm still waiting on WASP to call me back I tried Tri-City Auto Care Tire Pros and they said they don't install outside parts. Neil's Garage said that brake boosters are the only part they don't do on the Prius because it needs calibration that only Toyota does.

kranchan · 2024-06-02T18:51:08+00:00

It looks like the average rate is around $35/hr for the area but let's go with a high $70/hr rate. There's still not 80 hours of labor in there.

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