If you resent the idea of a uniform delivery charge to anywhere in the 48 states, you probably also resent first class postage charges, which are the same regardless of distance. These days, about the only things I mail are payments to local trades people who provide me services, and are too small to have a provision for online payments. It costs me the same to mail a check under 10 miles as someone else spends to mail an envelope to Hawaii.
That's just the way it is.
That's just the way it is.