01-23-2025, 01:50 AM
Companies should be able to charge whatever they desire for shipping to Hawaii, just as they should be able to chose the price of an item. Or to say no shipping to Hawaii. Shipping to Hawaii from the mainland costs more: it’s halfway across the Pacific with no ground shipping possible, unless you consider the barge “ground”. (FFS…trying to revive that phrase 
USPS flat rate Priority shipping has no surcharge and many ebay sellers have figured this out. Consumers in Hawaii obviously gravitate to the sellers with lessor Hawai’i shipping costs, like Amazon in many cases (who to my mind would be perfectly justified in surcharges or a surcharge on Prime for Hawaii shipping).
The idea that Case, or any politician wants to legislate shipping prices for some sort of equity when a plane or boat ride is the only way for a package to get here is ludicrous to me. I have had stuff like generators, furniture, and even large appliances shipped to me from Amazon, Walmart, Cabellas, and even eBay, where they surely must have lost money on the transaction (2 day FedEx for packages well over 50 lbs?). Still frustrated with Ground Advantage, and Amazon not shipping stuff with lithium batteries, and eBay sellers who won’t ship to Hawaii, and other “inequities”, but the idea that there should be Law to have sellers lose money when shipping to Hawaii would likely have the opposite unintended consequences.
Case should spend his efforts eliminating the Jones Act, which is caused by legislation and thus reversible. Shipping in a free market (sic) is not something the government should have anything to do with. YMMV.
What a tale of woe. Hawaii is in the middle of a big drink of water. Let’s make a law and pretend it is Wisconsin! Sheesh.
Cheers,
Kirt
USPS flat rate Priority shipping has no surcharge and many ebay sellers have figured this out. Consumers in Hawaii obviously gravitate to the sellers with lessor Hawai’i shipping costs, like Amazon in many cases (who to my mind would be perfectly justified in surcharges or a surcharge on Prime for Hawaii shipping).
The idea that Case, or any politician wants to legislate shipping prices for some sort of equity when a plane or boat ride is the only way for a package to get here is ludicrous to me. I have had stuff like generators, furniture, and even large appliances shipped to me from Amazon, Walmart, Cabellas, and even eBay, where they surely must have lost money on the transaction (2 day FedEx for packages well over 50 lbs?). Still frustrated with Ground Advantage, and Amazon not shipping stuff with lithium batteries, and eBay sellers who won’t ship to Hawaii, and other “inequities”, but the idea that there should be Law to have sellers lose money when shipping to Hawaii would likely have the opposite unintended consequences.
Case should spend his efforts eliminating the Jones Act, which is caused by legislation and thus reversible. Shipping in a free market (sic) is not something the government should have anything to do with. YMMV.
What a tale of woe. Hawaii is in the middle of a big drink of water. Let’s make a law and pretend it is Wisconsin! Sheesh.
Cheers,
Kirt