One of these days , we’ll feel totally comfortable with going into cheese shops again. In the meantime, a lot of us are ordering online. As you can imagine, shipping cheese is not remotely like shipping books. Novels don’t need gel packs and insulated boxes. If your book gets stalled in a warm warehouse over a weekend, no harm done. A Planet Cheese reader recently complained to me about a merchant’s shipping charge, so I thought I would dig a little more deeply. Are sellers raking it in on the shipping, or does it really cost that much to get the Brie to you? hand painted porcelain cheese storage container “We know that, above all, customers don’t like paying for shipping,” says Lisa Griffiths of igourmet, the Pennsylvania-based online merchant. “They see Amazon Prime, where everything you order you’re going to get the next day and not pay for shipping. But it’s a shirt, or a toothbrush. It’s not a perishable item.” I spoke at length to Griffiths and to Zoe Brickley of Jasper ...