system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Shipping & Handling: In order to ship the product to me don't you have to handle it?

 Why did they distinguish them as 2 different actions? Is there a shipping department and then the send it over to handling where a room full of people "handle" my package to make it official? 

I suppose Shipping would suffice.
gpt
Shipping is the cost that the company you are buying the product form pays another company (like the USPS) to deliver the package to you. Handling is a cost to cover their employees maintaining the warehouse of produces, managing the sales that come in, packaging the product, and administratively getting it shipped.