I have shipped a couple of these in the past, and I can tell you that one of the reasons that shipping can be high, even when shipping by Media Mail, is that it's so hard to find a box big enough and close enough to the right shape, to ship it in, and then you have to pay quite a bit of money just for the box. Even when I have the box that they come in, I don't like to ship that box "naked", because there is no space for padding between that box and the "Scenes & Settings". If you ship it in that box alone, you run a high risk of something puncturing that box in transit, and ruining the "Scenes & Settings" inside. So I always ship it in another box, in addition to the one that they come in.
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