Not a dumb question. It depends, but generally no.

pitchforks and torches time!

That's how it's done, exactly. Welcome to the club.

Now you have my full attention.

woke up in a bughati

Awesome!

does this really come as a surprise to anyone anymore?

... here here!

my thoughts exactly..

otherwise.. I'll take 10! 

thanks for providing this service - at least you have some Trust to assure customers.

yes, good call - important to note the difference.

cool topic!

Trust in the escrow provider/service is key. There are rules to challenge shipment and product, for example video unboxing to prove that he box contained "books", or whatever.

Trust is all that there is left remaining in trades/sales/barter. May I suggest selling your goods on BitMit.net?

I can think of 2 plausible responses:

1) "next week or the week after"

2) "it ships when it ships (when ready to ship)"

A device used for storing and drinking hot beverages (or cold, if you prefer).

Who said anyone was paying *more* for shipping? I think you assume too much (that everybody is stupid).

Does it matter? Take it at face value, it's printed word:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=233434.msg2963557#msg2963557

Way to sell it... 

Cash goes first, BTC follows.
And I'd recommend using an escrow service.

How is this different than just reading about USPS and figuring it out from there?