[Hallicrafters] USA postage to Australia? Microphone What the?

[Charlie T, K3ICH]

It costs my wife about $14 to send a hand towel to relatives in Germany via 
first class international mail last Christmas and took three weeks to 
arrive!   The towel couldn't have cost more than $4.00.  This is ridiculous 
but if I didn't send I'd have been called Scrooge.

Even the little cassette mailers that I use to send out the spun aluminum 
inlays to Europe costs a minimum of $6.55.  No wonder I don't sell many $3 
inlays overseas.

It's very frustrating since most buyers have no idea just how expensive 
shipping is out of the states.

I just went to the USPS website and plugged in a 2 pound package to 
Australia.  Cost to ship via priority mail from Virginia?  $45.75.
  A small flat rate box is $24.75.  There doesn't seem to be any reasonable 
alternatives

Charlie k3ICH


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Shultz" <nj2r at verizon.net>
To: "'Peter VK6PM'" <peter_may at optusnet.com.au>; 
<Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] USA postage to Australia? Microphone What the?


Hi Peter,

Yes, shipping has become very expensive even here in the USA!

I did a check on what it would be to ship that mike USPS International Flat
Rate in the small flat rate box which is 1 5/8" thick, perhaps a tad thin
but should be OK though a small risk for damage. The rate was $24.75. I then
checked the medium rate box and it was $61.50! Another possibility was self
packing at 2 pounds weight and it was $45.00. A padded flat rate envelope
was also $24.75.

While on the surface it seems outrageous and perhaps feeling like you are
being gouged, it doesn't seem so.

73, Roger, NJ2R

-----Original Message-----
From: hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Peter VK6PM
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 10:01 PM
To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Hallicrafters] USA postage to Australia? Microphone What the?



Has anyone in the group got any theories on why is would cost
US$48.25 to send a normal sized microphone to Australia from the USA?

I would have thought an item like this would be slipped in a padded
post-it bag, shouldn't be anymore than $5>$10.

I've actually stopped buying from USA at the moment.

You should have seen what someone in the USA was charging to post a
single crystal to VK land, another obvious rip-off.

I've emailed the seller to query the postage price, however I'm not
expecting a positive outcome, my experience in the past has been
"that's the price, take it or leave it".

The item is a Drake 1525EM DTMF microphone, the link is:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-Handheld-Microphone-by-DRAKE-Model-1525EM
-w-Keypad-/291093817626?ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:AU:3160#shpCntId

I would send a screen grab of the Australian pricing, but I know it
won't get through the mailman.

It's just getting plain stupid!

Peter VK6PM

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