A couple of days ago I wrote about the increasingly popular online practice of selling things dirt cheap and then making money on the shipping and handling charges.  Well the online folks are a bunch of pikers compared to the small defense contractor based in South Carolina that, among other things, charged almost a $1 million to ship two $.19 washers to Texas.  The sister team running this company manages to make Cheney’s boys at Halliburton look like Boy Scouts.

Oh, and because these jokers got away with several of these S&H scams for years thanks to the Pentagon’s expedited payment system for items that were shipped under "priority" status, the Defense Logistics Agency and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service "have made major changes, including thorough evaluations of the highest shipping charges."  Good to know, huh?