albieIt's big and heavy! We try to be honest with our shipping prices - it's a lot easier to offer free shipping or flat rate shipping when you're marking something up significantly. Since our margins are very small we can rarely do that. At the end of the day, shipping things is very expensive, and since we often don't have the margins to roll it into our cost that means you're looking at the actual shipping price.
FWIW, Woodlore charges $15 in shipping for this at MSRP.