Wow. Have you noticed the HUGE amount of stuff for sale here lately?

For those people that live a distance away from a shipping business, the part of selling that includes shipping can often kill a deal.
I've been lucky to live 2 miles from the USPS and 4-5 miles from UPS and a FedEx.
Still, the gathering of cardboard and packing materials takes time and money. In 2012, I sold some bare fenders and grilles. I often spent a half hour wrapping and protecting a part, then the trip to the shipper to get a quote, wait for the buyer to agree to the rate (or not to agree, to ***** and whine about it) then maybe a sale is made.
I never made a penny on packaging or shipping. I priced the parts at a rate somewhere between the self-serve junkyard prices and what you'd see at a decent swap meet so it wasn't like I was living high on the hog from the money I made. The proceeds of these sales usually just got spent on furthering the cars I'm keeping.