It has always been a goal of mine not to turn shipping costs into a profit area. That mindset led to a lot of trial and error over the years in getting postage and handling charges to dovetail with the actual cost of packaging and mailing the books out. Well intentioned as that effort was, the resulting pricing structure ended up being confusing to our customers as well as to me and Mrs. Scientist (who handles all TFS shipping).

This year we decided to make it easier on everyone.  All hard copy orders (i.e. all orders that have an actual printed copy of a book as opposed to purely electronic orders) to the United States will be sent out via Priority Mail.  The price of the shipping has been baked into the price of the book, thus making it an easier order process across the board.  Priority Mail is also faster than Media Mail and has the advantage of a tracking number for those rare times when something happens to the delivery.

In other words, it is a win-win-win situation!

KC