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I'm confused on exactly where you're talking about shipping to/from, but it's probably not worth it. Aemon Send a noteboard - 13/09/2011 03:42:50 AM
You're talking about shipping from the US to an overseas location, correct? That's expensive. When it comes to a relatively large, heavy box of frozen food that you need to arrive as fast as possible, it is fantastically expensive. A box one cubic foot in size would be over $200 USD to ship via UPS. When you take into account the size of the dry ice + cardboard and several inches of foam insulation (cooler and packing peanuts, usually) you don't have much room for burritos. Jump up to a 16x16x16 box, and you're over $400 USD, and that's only if you don't go over 30 pounds.

So yeah, basically, I don't think you could fit enough burritos in a box to make it worth the shipping costs. By my rough why-am-I-bored-enough-to-do-this-math calculation, you'd have to fit over 50 burritos in the 12x12x12 box before breaking even. Double that for a 16x16x16 box. And then you're over the weight limit for that size box which makes shipping even more expensive, blah blah blah. Even if you somehow manage to save yourself some cash, it probably won't be much.

Bottom line: not worth it. Unless my original US -> overseas assumption was incorrect, in which case all bets are off. :P

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I'm confused on exactly where you're talking about shipping to/from, but it's probably not worth it. - 13/09/2011 03:42:50 AM 299 Views
TX to Norway. - 13/09/2011 03:35:43 PM 485 Views
I'm sure it's at least worth looking into - 13/09/2011 04:23:55 PM 389 Views
Yah, the time issue looks like the real problem. - 15/09/2011 12:46:23 PM 503 Views
But USPS is not UPS/Fedex - 13/09/2011 05:22:21 PM 241 Views
They'd probably do it, but not quickly enough, as Aemon noted. - 15/09/2011 12:41:18 PM 253 Views
That's not fast enough. - 14/09/2011 12:42:26 AM 272 Views
Ah, I didn't think about the time factor; good point. - 15/09/2011 12:39:54 PM 249 Views
you are craving frozen grocery store burritos LOL - 13/09/2011 03:44:06 PM 282 Views
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I'll make a note of that, thanks. - 15/09/2011 05:13:53 PM 526 Views
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