People have been asking this for about 10 years now. It's cheaper to ship something from china than to ship something to my neighbor across the street.
For each country's national postal system, each one sets the cost of outgoing international shipping. The receiving country doesn't get any money. Once per year the countries meet and decide which country owes which country how much. Always the decision was just to not worry about it. For about 100 years this was an advantage to USA as we shipped more than we received. But now it is a huge advantage to China. International outgoing shipping from USA costs about $14 for a PCB that weighs less than 8 ounces. From China to other countries I'm not sure what it is but it is less than $1.
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GregValiant 1,342
I am electronically handicapped but I'm intrigued.
Searching around I see this has been addressed with generic add-on boards from TH3D and other suppliers. I think I'll bite and get one for the bed and one for the hot end and then do a couple of tests.
Ordering the boards has brought up a rhetorical question...How come it costs $0.20 to ship something from China but $15.00 to ship something from California? The Chinese package has to go through/over/around California to get to my house. FTL travel? The shortest distance between two places is not a straight line? Einstinian space is a myth?
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