Cost to Ship Kit of Parts?

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

Consider sending one person just to pick up the kit or designating a surrogate to pick up your kit if there is a team going between you and the kickoff.

It's not just the cost. You will get the kit late.

Yep, that is why I am asking what peoples' experience has been. I am not terribly concerned about getting the kit a week late, because we will have materials on hand to build a drive through FIRST Choice and the AM voucher. During that first week we will be trying to design manipulators, so if there's something in the kit we'd use for that, it's unlikely that a short delay will hamper us. If it's multiple weeks, that's different.

Sending one person to pick up the kit means spending somebody's entire day to drive somewhere and back. I ask a lot of my mentors already and would consider paying $100 or $200 to ship the kit of that's what it costs. I think the mentors' efforts are better spent in other ways.