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Originally Posted by dice
A postage anecdote from decades ago: a contractor was
building something (probably not a road) somewhere up
in the middle of Alaska. He had to get 40,000 pounds of
concrete (in bags on skids) from Anchorage to the building
site. Neither UPS, nor FeDeX, nor regular heavy hauling
freight companies delivered in the area, so the only choices were chartering a plane and flying the stuff up there, cost
$250,000, or mailing it (there was a nearby village with
an official US Post Office).
So they sent it Parcel Post. Postage was somewhere around $11,000.
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Yes, I'm sure that was many many years ago since the shipping was only 11 grand!
I don't even want to know how much that would translate out to these days!!! Very interesting tidbit of info tho . . . Butch