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I ship a lot of small/medium packages, and there are some weird facets. Anything under a pound is easy and affordable to ship with USPS. Over a pound and it starts to lean toward UPS or FedEx. THey use some strange calculations that consider both the weight and the size. So something that's 36" might be in a box that's 40 or 42 inches long, even if it was 4oz it's still going to cost a bit because of the dimensions. My biz doesnt ship with them enough to get decent discounts with UPS or FedEx, but larger operations that use them probably prefer one over the other. Both of them charge extra for shipping to residential addresses if the shipper primarily delivers to businesses.
So I hate to say it, but all of that is "normal" these days. I don't like it, but it's status quo.
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