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Geographic Discrimination
What is Geographic Discrimination? Geographic discrimination is what happens when retailers either refuse to ship or charge a premium for shipping outside the continental 48 states. It is totally unjustified most of the time. It borders on fraud when a seller charges $5 or $10 more to ship to Hawaii or Alaska and then ships by parcel post. This should probably come under the heading of limiting your sales. Unless you are selling boats this business practice makes no sense at all. If the buyer pays the shipping why would you refuse to sell to them? USPS delivers to Hawaii and Alaska, amazingly they deliver to Puerto Rico and Guam for the same price. It is all domestic mail. I swear to you I have been told by a seller that they do not ship overseas. After pointing out Hawaii is the 50th state, nope, it is overseas. No sale! Another myth, it costs a fortune to ship to Hawaii and Alaska. Only if you want to use UPS. A first class mail packet weighing under 13oz costs exactly the same to ship to Hawaii as to Kansas or Florida. First class mail is not a zonal rate. Priority Mail is zonal so more expensive to ship to zone 8, unless you use a Flat Rate envelope or box, then it costs the same no matter how heavy or how far. Unless you are prepared to have your item take 4 - 8 weeks to arrive, do not save pennies by shipping parcel post, it goes by boat. Slow Boat. People who live in Alaska and Hawaii get mail every day and know what it costs, they get a little bent out of shape when they are charged $5 or $10 extra.
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Contributor's Note
As a long time resident of the 50th state this is one of my pet peeves. There are certain retailers I would not buy from if they were the last store on earth because of persistent geographic discrimination.
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