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		jdabney on June 14, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What’s The Secret Behind Diapers.com Success? A Ki... I would completely agree if companies had to setup their own shipping infrastructures to ship to these places; but they don't. Companies like FedEx, UPS, etc, already do this for you and they already ship to places like Alaska and Hawaii. Just charge the customer the extra shipping they are charged by the shipper and let it be at that.

pbiggar on June 14, 2010 [–]

Alternatively, make it illegal to only offer shipping to the lower 48, so that the fringe states don't end up in the third world.

This (I believe) is what the UK does with Northern Ireland.

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