Shipping Charges

Our shipping and handling charges are designed to recoup our cost of shipping your order. We do not profit from the charges nor do we subsidize them. Our shipping and handling charges are made up of two components – the actual cost of shipping charged by the shipping service plus an additional charge of $1.50 to $2.00 per shipment for insurance, packaging and handling.

Our website connects with the United States Postal Service and Federal Express to provide real-time shipping quotes based on the weight of the items in your shopping cart, the address to which they are being delivered and the delivery method you choose. To see these shipping quotes just add items to your shopping cart, click View Cart, input your zip code in the shipping estimator and press enter. This will show you the available shipping options and costs for each method. You can experiment with adding or deleting products to see how shipping charges are impacted.

Tracking Numbers—Packages sent through the US Postal Service cannot by tracked. If you want to track your package and see where it is in transit and when it is expected to be delivered, select a FedEx shipping method.

Flat Rate Boxes—the US Postal Services offers a flat rate envelope and three flat rate box services. If you choose Priority Mail as your shipping option, we will attempt to fit your order in one of these standard packages if doing so will reduce the cost of shipping. If your order fits in one of these boxes, we will refund excess shipping charges back to your credit card. You do not have to ask for this consideration -- we check it automatically on all Priority Mail shipments.

Media Mail—Media Mail is a very economical way to ship books and DVDs. Often these rates are a fraction of other rates. However, a package is not eligible for Media Mail if it contains items other than books or DVDs. If your order contains only eligible items, you will be offered the Media Mail shipping option. Please note that Media Mail is slow and can take anywhere from one to three weeks. If shipping to the western half of the US, allow up to three weeks for delivery.

Parcel Post—We only offer Parcel Post shipping on special request. Unless your package is especially heavy and going to the west coast, the savings from Parcel Post are negligible. On the other hand, Parcel Post can add two to three weeks to the delivery time. In these cases, FedEx Home Delivery is a less expensive and quicker delivery method. As a result, we only offer Parcel Post on special request.