Because it's spring, it's time to put the seeds in the dirt. Mrs. requested I plant some little cucumbers, gherkins, for pickling. Easy enough, I thought - there are a thousand kinds of seeds for sale in stores right now, surely I can find little cucumbers. But, I couldn't. I had to go to Amazon to find seeds for gherkins. And, of course, some mom-n-pop seed store out there somewhere had a packet of seeds for me. Hooray. They were many times more expensive than a packet of ordinary cuke seeds from the store, but still cost less than a jar of pickles. So, no biggie. Click, click, done.

The seeds appeared in the mail yesterday. Turns out they came air mail, from Singapore. WTF?

How can anyone make money air-mailing seeds halfway around the world for less than four bucks, including shipping?