Asymmetrical Information

A 3 pound Priority Mail shipment through the Post Office costs $8.55 and arrives in 2 days, though you do have to pack it yourself.

Mail Boxes Etc is one of the most overpriced services available. It is the sort of thing that people don't shop around for, however, and I think their business strategy is to depend on people who are pressed for time, walk in, and pay whatever is charged. Sort of like a convienience store which charges four dollars for a quart of milk. Seems to work.

On the other hand, I did use them once when I was moving across the country, without furniture. It saved me a fair amount of dough and hassle to have them simply pack everything up, and send it UPS, as opposed to hiring a moving service.

Seems like better places that $30 could have gone to. Low cost, high quality subsistence food - fortified rice and beans, for instance - or lightwight survival style food, in the way of MREs, jerky, dehydrated vegetables and soups, and other similar comestibles.

To spend so much money sending cakes full of rich creamery butter and sugar, delicious as I'm sure they are, at such cost seems self-indulgent to me at best, and waste of previous resources at worst.

I'm sure you recall more than a billion people lives (somehow)on less than one dollar a day. Three billion, I believw, on less than five dollars.

Or this pespective: think about sending cakes in this way as costing a month's salary at a pop.

I imagine those receiving one will feel that much better about enjoying each bite.

Ah, you'd have gripin' about Jesus and foot ointment too. Quote:

"Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me."

I imagine those receiving one will feel that much better about enjoying each bite.

Yeah, and I'll bet you dwell in a dried-reed shack somewhere, living off whatever the land will produce without irrigation and weaving straw together to make garments.

Where did you get the Internet connection, by the way? That costs a couple of annual third-world salaries each month, does it?

Actually, the Priority Flat Rate box goes for only $7.85, with free tracking if you use the usps website to print out postage online.

Yikes! I'm so sorry.

It might have been shrewd to offer a free upgrade to the topic-of-your-choice prize. It would have saved a lot of money, and you would have had plenty of pound cake to munch on as you wrote.

I say we get together and donate a lump of coal to Democrublican's Christmas stocking...

Remind me again why I moved away from the Bay Area? Oh, that's right: the holier-than-thous driving around in Volvos with bumper stickers asking us to "Save the Planet".

Jane, the pound cake is delicious and although I'd donated before seeing your blurb, I NEVER would have asked for one knowing it was going to come so dear.

I agree with Jim - the pound cake is absolutely delicious and I too would have never asked for one if I knew it was going to cost you so much money to send it out. But since it did and you did, my wife and I are going to savor every bite!

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