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Sure. I think there's actually still a lot of room for improvements in the shipping industry. I'm currently trying to ship a bike from San Francisco to Toronto, and the cheapest rate that I can find is around $200 with ground shipping, 5 days. I can fly myself from San Francisco to Toronto for $250. Is my bike getting meal service? Why is it still so expensive? What we need is better APIs from the major shipping companies so that we can more easily shop around. I think the major shipping companies could also work together to have possible a single point of access for users and the shipping companies can bid on which shipments they want to take. Shipping really is part of the infrastructure of a country. Maybe the government can help add some cost saving improvements to the industry?


https://www.bikeflights.com does exactly that negotiating rates for these linearly oversized packages, though it's pretty much only FedEx bidding on them

They're $40-60 domestically, and looks like San Francisco to Toronto is $125




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