{"id":12016,"date":"2000-01-01T14:03:39","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T21:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/?p=12016"},"modified":"2019-06-27T15:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T22:39:45","slug":"why-is-shipping-so-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-projects\/why-is-shipping-so-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Shipping So Expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wood and lumber is heavy and awkward, and shipping lumber means hiring a person to handle it and deliver it right to your door.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because\n of the weight, size, and shape of lumber, it pushes the limits of Fed \nEx, UPS and USPS infrastructure. They charge additional fees for \nhandling these long, heavy packages.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rest assured, \nwe&#8217;re on your side. We&#8217;re professionals who do this every day, all day. \nGive us a call or send an email and we can help you figure out the most \neconomical way to ship lumber.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some ways to get better\n rates include: asking for short lumber (under 45&#8243; long), keeping your \npackages between 60 and 68 lbs, shipping 200 lbs or more (for a better \nrate).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smaller orders incur the <em>highest shipping&nbsp;<\/em><em>rates<\/em>. So think about the long game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example, at the time this was written:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>it costs approximately $30 to ship 7 board feet of lumber to San Francisco, CA (a rate of $4.28 per board foot)<\/li><li>it costs approximately $48 to ship 20 board feet of lumber to San Francisco, CA (a rate of $2.40 per board foot)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wood and lumber is heavy and awkward, and shipping lumber means hiring a person to handle it and deliver it right to your door.&nbsp; Because of the weight, size, and shape of lumber, it pushes the limits of Fed Ex, UPS and USPS infrastructure. They charge additional fees for handling these long, heavy packages.&nbsp; Rest <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-projects\/why-is-shipping-so-expensive\/\">&#8230;<br \/><small><em><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/em> <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lumber-help-faq","category-woodworking-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12025,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016\/revisions\/12025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}