'Around the Cycle' is a real storefront cycle shop, not just an eb*y seller. You might want to go to their website, get their phone number and just talk with them. See if there's a deal to be made there. You might want to ask them to detach the rack for a smaller package?

I've bought a couple of bikes from them. Both were well packed, and their shipping costs at the time were not that bad.

But sorry I am too far away to go there.