John Giannini wrote in a message to Joan Kelly:
 JK> Uh, excuse me, but I ship via UPS all the time--thousands of
 JK> catalogs per
 JK> month--and there is no way it would cost the same to ship something to
 JK> California as it does to New Hampshire.  The charges are figured by
 JK> weight and by zone.  To California would be a few dollars more than to
 JK> New Hampshire.  Where did you get your information, just out of
 JK> curiosity.
 JG> From UPS....  It costs me the same to ship a box blue label to L.A.
 JG> as it does to New York.  I do it frequently.  Also, another
 JG> example.  US Mail Priority mail - ship anywhere in the US at under
 JG> a pound and it's 3 bucks... 
My comments stand.  You are talking about one specific, very small class, of 
U.S. Mail and UPS.  Packages of various weights are various prices to various 
zones, except for your small, very limited, example.
You would have folks believe that a mailorder house can standardize their 
freight, and this just isn't true.
Joan
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