^This has happened to me as well and it is BS. You have to watch your CC account to see if Fedex wants to take some of your money

Bike flights is the only way I will ever ship again. I was looking at a frame on ebay with silly high shipping charges. I asked the seller if he had heard of bike flights. He changed the shipping to a realistic number. I shipped a large frame coast to coast. I think it was $32.