My amusing package delivery from Brownell ...

jrprich said:

you should see how Amazon boxes orders

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Ha!

The somewhat oversized Box for one or more small parts, does help ensure that the item is not lost or Mangled in the often mechanized Sorting-Processing facilities of the Post Office...

Flat envelopes are one thing, but, envelopes which contain small items, are another, and have to go a slightly different sorting-route or else the Machinery can mangle or tear or scrunch up the Envelope on account of the 'bulge', or it flings it into conveyor drive mechanisms which tear the Envelope up or mangle it, so, I'd probably do the same thing, with that in mind, if I was selling small Parts for things...I'd use a Box no smaller than say, 3 x 5 x 3 or so anyway.

First Class Mail, even a smaller light Box costs very little to ship ( 2 or 3 Dollars say )...but then one kinda sort of has to also obtain Delivery Confirmation which costs another buck almost, lest, a dishonest recipient might claim they never got the item.

So...it ends up being difficult to be as 'reasonable' as one might want to be, if one is selling small items Mail Order.

Costs of running a Mail Room, and or costs of materials and of Mail Room personnel, and of shuffling Carts of items off to the Post Office, etc, and other over-head associated with Shipping out one's Products, tend to be much much more of course than the actual Postage is, and, often ( it is so with my Mail Order Business ) one just eats those costs or they get absorbed however so in the overall picture, and, one just charges the Postage ( approximately, anyway ) in order to be a Good Sport about it.

It is inherently offensive to pay ten or fifteen bucks for a small item to be shipped to one's Address, but, in actuality, the Postage is typically only a fraction of what it really costs the shipper in terms of time/personnel/materials/overhead.