I recently ran across an old bill for something I had ordered by mail. It was a $29.95 item from Heathkit (the go-to place for nerd do-it-yourself electronics), but my point here is the Shipping & Handling was $1.58. Yes, you read that right: $1.58.
Granted, it was purchased in 1980 and times were different. Different in that Shipping & Handling was actually the cost of Shipping & Handling, rather than a fee created out of thin air, as it is today.
Today, the fee often pays for that $19.99 special whatsis you just got from an advertisement on TV, leaving the $19.99 as sheer profit. A second one free, just pay S&H? Right. I'll believe that when the second one is $1.58.
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