I have a bunch of items in my cart, that when I tried to check out, the store broke into two orders, each being shipped by USPS priority to New Zealand, and the total postage came to $124.86 - around half the cost of the things I'm buying.
Now admittedly I'm getting about 8 hardbacks and a boardgame, so I expect to pay a bit for that, but this seems a bit excessive. I had a thought that maybe I could split it into two orders, to get the "first ten" on shipping twice and cut down the cost, but a) this would be a pain, and b) it might end up as (or more) expensive as I'd probably get three separate shipments.
Basically I was wondering - is this figure accurate for that order? I'm sure I've never been charged that much before, even for other relatively large shipments to NZ - around $50-60 I expected, but this is nearly twice that (perhaps because it's being split into two shipments for some reason)?
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The order in your cart is 18.84 lbs worth of books and board game which unfortunately is quite pricy to ship to New Zealand. The estimate provided is the best we can do for the order.
The order is being split into two packages because that is the cheapest shipping our system could calculate for the order. Because of weight/size restrictions on certain mail classes, it is cheaper and/or necessary to ship in two boxes rather than in one.
Thanks, that's cool that the order is already split to make it cheaper!