harveyc

Thanks, John.

Yes, these are not flat rate boxes and they go based on weight. For most bananas, I've found it cheaper to ship by weight than a flat rate box (I'm a huge fan of flat rate boxes for other things and used over 600 of them for chestnut orders last year). If I was shipping a large corm I would readily used a flat rate box. If I chopped one of these bananas into a size that would fit into a medium flat rate box I could mail it in a regular box (priced by weight) to Tony 350-400 miles away for about $7 or to Randy in TN for about $11. Pricing is pretty good if it's light, but I think it's more important yet to leave as much of the banana intact as possible.

These tubes have one side that says Priority Mail and another side that says Express Mail. So when I make a box like I did, I'll end up with two sides that say each. I usually use free Priority Mail stickers to cover up the Express Mail print but I don't think it's really necessary. They go by my electronic mailing label anyways and I put that on the side that says Priority Mail though I don't think that matters either.

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