Digit-Key always works for me.
At one time (maybe they still do) Digi-Key assessed shipping charges based on how much you ordered. At the bottom tier was
0 to $25 purchased: $5 shipping.
Meaning, even if you bought nothing you still owed $5!
I love finding nonsensicals like that, of course.
The last "small-parts-brick-and-mortar" electronics store around here, Fistell's, closed up about five years ago, leaving us with nothing but Radio Shack, which was mostly geared to entertainment and computer electronics, but closed up around here anyhow. By then Radio Shack had just started to sell small individual components again, but alas, they were too late in returning to their "origins" to recover.
I remember years ago asking one of their clerks about 2N2222 transistors ("two enn twenty-two twenty-two") and him, confused, saying they didn't sell guns. True HTG story.
He wasn't kidding and I had to explain it was a transistor. Say it fast and it does sound like a gun, though. Or at least ammo. The "triple deuce" caliber was popular then, too.
Terry, 230RN