Briefly: We have a $6.95 flat rate shipping fee - orders are shipped via FedEx Ground; or US Postal Service Priority Mail or First Class Mail - keep reading for more details. We charge a flat fee of $6.95 per shipment to 47 states of the United States. Most orders are shipped from our warehouse within 2 days, many within 24 hours. Doesn’t matter what you buy or what quantity, just $6.95 to ship. Doesn't get much simpler than that. The shipping and billing address does not have to be the same - you can purchase an order and have it shipped to a different address than your credit card billing address. You'll see this on the order form. Within California, where we are located, the shipping fee is $5.50, and we must add 8.75% sales tax. There is no tax anywhere else - only orders shipped to a California address must have sales tax added. Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico - lighter orders will be the standard $6.95, however we might have to add the extra cost of shipping on some heavier shipments, we'll send you an email and ask for your approval before shipping if there's an additional charge. Faster Shipping... If you need your order shipped fast, call us, we can use FedEx Express. Just so you know, it's much more expensive than our normal $6.95 flat fee, speedy delivery costs serious money. Exact fee depends on weight, your zip code, and level of service (overnight, 2 day, 3 day) - we'll let you know and get your approval. To give an idea of the cost, even the smallest Express shipment is likely to run at least $25 for overnight delivery. I'd guess our average Express delivery fee runs around $50 (that's just the delivery fee.) Some run into hundreds of dollars. We just go by what FedEx charges us. Naturally, we encourage you to buy more goods from us, and the flat rate shipping fee works to that end because you can buy all you want and have it shipped for $6.95 (or $5.50 in California.) But that's not the whole story...you might want to read the section below titled "Explanation of Our Thinking on Shipping" (the fee covers both shipping and handling.) We ship using the most cost effective method. This varies according to the weight and destination of the order, so we might use US Postal Service First Class Mail, or Priority Mail; or FedEx Ground. Most of the packages we send out arrive within 7 working days using these methods, many take only two or three days. During the Christmas Holiday season it can take an extra 2 or 3 days for shipments because the shipping services are very busy. International Orders Shipping Outside the USA: when an order is to be shipped outside the USA we will add the shipping/handling fee after approving it with you. Go ahead and place your order and we will send you an email with the total cost with shipping and handling - you must approve it before we ship. If it's too much, just tell us to cancel the order. Explanation of Our Thinking on Shipping We put a lot of thought into our shipping fee - and it was not our intention to make it a profit source. The idea was: 1) to cover our costs of shipping and handling, and 2) to keep it simple - you know what you'll be paying for shipping and handling right from the start - no guesswork, no surprises. Every order, big or small, incurs certain processing costs. Each order is retrieved from the management area of our web site, an invoice, shipping label, and letter are created on paper, this paperwork is sent into the warehouse where the order is picked, packed, and staged for shipping. In the case of smaller orders, let's say $5 worth of merchandise where the gross profit might be $2.50, we do not earn sufficient money to pay the cost of processing and still retain some profit, so the shipping/handling fee becomes more of a handling charge (and of course there's the cost to ship, though it's likely to be small.) So it's sort of a sliding scale, depending on the order the fee might cover more shipping or more handling. The profit in larger orders pays the processing, and the shipping/handling fee covers most of the shipping cost. Our plan is to keep the fee structure simple. Bottom line, to stay profitable we need the shipping and handling fee. Only other option would be to have a minimum order amount - we'd rather not do that. (FedEx logo used with permission from FedEx.)