With 10 tanks in boxes and 40 boxes of the coils...a Medium Flat Rate Priority Mail box would be the smallest they could use to ship it all. They could've used a plain brown shipping box and sent it regular Parcel Rate. But adding the cost of that box to the regular Parcel Rate shipping cost...would've been maybe about $1 less than the $13.95, if that. It would get to you much slower, too.
ETA: I know a $13.95 S/H cost sort of stings, because mine cost that much, too. But, when I was a seller on eBay for 9+ years...I learned that there's not much difference at all in the cost of Parcel Rate and PM Rate when a decent sized package has to be sent. Buyers usually chose to pay the $1-$1.25 difference to get their items faster, when I'd always offer them the choice of the 2 shipping methods.
What does aggravate me though, about shipping and some vendors...is when the only option they offer, for sending small, lightweight items...is in a small Flat Rate PM box for $7-8. They could definitely go by First Class Parcel for about $4-$4.50...even including the cost of a bubble envelope.
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