I would also love to know how they ship from mainland China in two days to me in Louisiana. ...neat trick!
I agree. When I ordered from Bitmain for the first time and the package arrived in three days it was like teleportation or some other kind of weird magic trick. Too bad the era of "free" postage is over.
You do understand that postage never was "free"? It seems that you do, since you put quotation marks around the word free. Back when BITMAIN shipped without a "shipping charge", whatever amount you paid for your miner also included the cost of shipping.
Personally, I think it's better that they now have a shipping charge instead of just including it in the price, because shipping rates obviously vary from country to country, so if you live in a country that doesn't have insane shipping charges, you are probably better off because your shipping price is lower than others. I imagine that before they started displaying the shipping charges, they just added the average amount that it would cost to ship the miner anywhere, which might have been significantly higher than the price you pay for shipping now. Or it could be the other way around, depending on your location, I suppose.
