Postal rate increase
Postal rates went up again yesterday. It makes me sick to see the prices that our customers are having to pay to transport books from our house to theirs. We really need to find a way to distribute so that people can buy locally and not have to pay shipping. Either that, or someone needs to invent an instantaneous transporter. I wish we could afford to do what Amazon does and offer free shipping. Perhaps when we’re bigger we can, but the margins are too slim right now. We were glad to try offering it over the holidays so that we could get books out to people who otherwise could not afford to buy, but it cut into our margin too heavily for us to make that a permanent option. Now I need to go into our store and tweak all the shipping settings to make sure that postage is being calculated properly.