"Cybershopping can be surprisingly cheap, even after adding the shipping cost, " says Karia Ho Ka-lee.
Young Verghese reckoned this was a waste of money: The weight of the shells made up 70% of the shipping cost.
We have to balance cost of shipping final products with the cost of shipping components vs labor cost s vs quality vs many other factors.
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"If I'm shopping online, I'll get toys in one place, because the shipping will cost less, " she says.
To let partisan grandstanding cut necessary transportation investments and consign American businesses to roads that are in disrepair, and travel and shipping delays that cost millions of dollars, is inexcusable.
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Save yourself the cost of shipping by having the company ship directly to the gift recipient.
The cost of shipping parcels is now a mere one-sixth of what firms in America have to pay.
If the yuan weakens, the cost of shipping, labor and imported inputs necessary to make saleable goods must rise.
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Road transport is only one-third the cost of shipping goods to Pakistan by sea, via Dubai, as happens now.
Result: The cost of shipping a container has gone up, and the time (which was getting shorter) has also gone up.
Thanks to higher Chinese wages and the rising cost of shipping across the Pacific, Mexico is increasingly attractive to foreign investors.
Some customers likely balk at the relatively high cost of shipping perishables overnight or heavy items like jars of jam when many online retailers are offering free shipping.
Containerisation helped to promote globalisation by reducing the cost of shipping goods so sharply that manufacturers could afford to search the world for factories where costs were lowest.
Both changes are too new and too undeveloped for a pronouncement of recovery just yet, but the attendant factors increased cost of shipping, rising foreign labor costs, falling wages at home and growing consumer demand give prognosticators every reason to be cautiously optimistic.
In addition to the 25 percent import tax, the cost of manufacture is still higher in the United States than in China, and the costs of shipping will also add to the cost.
This reduces cost associated with shipping, warehouse storing, installing and servicing large-screen displays.
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What will remain unknown until retailers report their financial year end results is whether the aggressive pricing and free shipping offers came at the cost of lower margins.
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Western intelligence services are less worried about the growing cost to global shipping than the possibility that the pirates may link up with, or turn into, Islamist terrorists.
The road builders suggest the shipping community could bear the cost of the initiative through items like customs fees, tolls and taxes on bills of lading, weight and mileage, among others.
The cost of packing and shipping art out of the country is almost always higher than the royalty, Cave insists.
But though retail prices are higher at physical retailers, the margins per unit may be smaller when factoring in the cost of packaging and shipping for a physical game.
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Fuel, after all, is not just a source of emissions for the shipping industry, it is a cost, so higher fuel prices mean that more efficient shippers will have a greater cost and profitability advantage.
Palletize the boxes for sale to other companies looking for low-cost, eco-friendly shipping solutions.
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In some cases, the total cost of the cakes plus shipping meant we paid nearly 10 bucks per cupcake.
This is something that I do for contests and giveaways on my site: I pay for the cost of the books plus shipping for the winners.
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The studios -- and Technicolor and Deluxe, the two primary companies that "print" films -- certainly appreciate this cost savings, since printing and shipping thousands of copies of a major release wasn't a trivial expense.
It is famous for shipping outrageous ingredients across great distances, at enormous cost, to keep both millionaire whales and on-a-budget buffet hogs happy.
At some higher-end retail, 40% of the retail cost of furniture is just the fuel and shipping costs, he says.
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The recent decline in the dry bulk index suggests that tighter emissions regulations on shipping vessel is unlikley to result in near-term cost distortions.
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