Shipping and handling - the debate rages on

There was a thread recently on bonanzle about what someone should charge for shipping and handling.

Let me say right off the bat: if you tell your customer you charge x dollars to help cover your costs of boxes, bubble wrap, tape, labels, gas and your time...stop selling - get out of the business - find something less destructive to do. Because when you do that, all your are doing is (short-term) lining your pockets with a few extra coins and (long-term) making the on-line buying experience more painful for your customers.

So, seriously, go away.

I want my thingie I bought from you, and I will pay a reasonable charge for shipping. And I'm not so stupid that I think a 3 pound item will cost 12 bucks to mail, especially since I know I can go to the USPS website and figure out the cost myself.

So...in the name of fairness, I want to present to you the basic S&H models. Each takes some (in the words of Ricky Ricardo) 'splaining to do", but I think it will all be worth it.