In a message dated 8/17/2001 6:59:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com writes:
> I won a bid on a Morris Minor manual from England and I have the following
> choices. I'm tempted to just take the surface rate, but I'm wondering if I
> can depend on it arriving. Cost of the manual was only about $6.50, but
> shipping is a killer...
> 
It is a killer, especially on large items.  I forget what I paid for shipping 
when I won a set of NOS +0.20 pistons in England.  I got the pistons real 
cheap, but shipping was about 50% of the cost of the item.  But I was really 
surprised at how quickly it bot here.
--David C.
 
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