Digi-Key's minimum shipping charge painful
??? I've ordered quite a few times from Digikey and never had a min shipping charge - usually shipping for a few chips and things run less than $3 - $4 at max. Only one time did I get hung with shipping charges - I order some 4 ft pieces of heat shrink - they shipped in a BIG long box so the heat trace would not get bent or rolled up. That cost me $9 for priority shipped - Of course I rolled it up in a storage box at home.
Mouser is the one with heavy shipping - seems like it's $7 or $8 min.
BTW, I had not though of DigiKey for 4-40 nuts 'n screws - and those spacers. You just cost me more money 
Ken H>