Ah, Sorry, I didn't read your post all the way through and didn't realize you were getting a tap from a Canadian company and you live there. A tap could be sent across the country in a small padded envelope for a couple dollars. I don't know what your postal rates are there. Often times anything more than a letter (an item that can't go through the automated stamping and sorting equipment) has to be handled by hand and will cost more. Just sayin'