We import fresh fruit and flowers from South America and the Hawaiian
Islands to the US using air freight, it's important that these get here
while still fresh, I'm sure that a Canada does the same. If it cost
$1000/lb no one could afford to buy a dozen roses or even a mango. So
lets think about this. How much does it cost to buy two dozen roses,
weight about three pounds, airfreighted from Argentina, (or maybe
Chile)? Amazon has them listed at about $30.00 US. That doesn't
include the $10.00 delivery price in the US. Flowers are mostly water
so by extension it costs less than $15.00 a pound for roses delivered by
airfreight to the US. Assuming that the grower, and shipper, (not the
carrier, it the shipping business they can be and often are different
organizations or persons), and retailer, make a reasonable return on
investment, (between 3 and 8%), then we can see that the actual cost of
air freight per pound is probably less than $7.00 per pound for bulk
items probably a lot less. Still expensive as shipping goes, but no
where near $1000/lb. That's what it costs to put something into orbit,
(if you're using something other than the STS that is).
Aaron Reynolds wrote:
>On Jul 8, 2006, at 6:40 PM, John Forbes wrote:
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>>$1,000/pound. What rubbish.
>>
>>On that basis an airfare for a human being would be $150,000.
>>
>>I do wish people would think before making such crazy assertions.
>>
>>
>
>John, you'll note that he says "for large quantities". Human beings
>are not shipped air freight by the thousands at once. Likewise, Pentax
>does not import one or two cameras at a time, and this is why the
>shipments of K100D and K110D cameras that are specifically being talked
>about are coming over on ships.
>
>I realize that it's hard for people to understand the difference in
>scale, but there is a massive difference in scale. How many cameras do
>you think they're bringing in, and how much space do you think they
>take up?
>
>-Aaron
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>
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