yeah they want 10$ flat rate shipping on those and im just like are you serious, put it in a .50 cent envelope!
Under post office rules you cannot put anything but paper on a 60 cent envelope. I have done it before with very small items, and some very tiny things will pass, but those knobs will not. The post office has an automated conveyor system where letters are sorted, anything like that will jam the system, and when it does, they will send it back to the sender with a nasty letter stating that they may close your account if they catch you doing this. The other issue is that if the seller sends it to you in an envelope with a stamp he will have no tracking number. I know that you will not put a dispute for "not received" on your credit card if this comes in on an envelope, but a lot of people will do it after they receive the product, for them this is free stuff. No tracking number=free for a lot of people. Ask me how I know... The seller will 100% of the time loose that dispute, as he has no tracking number, and on top of that he will pay the credit card company $15 for a dispute fee. This can go in a small box by First Class Mail for about $5 to a company with a USPS account, but if you as private person were to send this in a small box, the retail price for 10 ounces (what I estimate this will weigh with box and packing materials) is $6.25. Now, that $6.25 assumes that you have a box, tape, and packing materials. $10 shipping is not really that bad. I send thousands of packages a month, we have to buy boxes, tape, shipping labels, bubble wrap, printer ink, pay the warehouse guys, pay maintenance on the equipment, etc... A 4x4x4 box is about 40 cents, a shipping label, 10 cents, tape and bubble wrap will be almost nothing, on something that small, but it all adds up. If this seller does not ship by the post office, and a lot of sellers refuse to use the post office as they truly suck, then UPS and FedEx for this will easily be over $10, could go as high a $14-15 depending on how far you are from the seller, and if you are in one of the zones where UPS and FedEx do not normally go, it can be $20...
