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

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie T, K3ICH" <pincon at erols.com>
To: <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] USA postage to Australia? 
Microphone What the?


> 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
>
     Not long ago someone on a list I belong to offered a 
freebee if you paid shipping. I don't even remember what it 
was but something small. I found the same thing  you did, I 
went to the USPS on line calulator and got back something 
like $50 cheapest. I thought I had worked the calculator 
wrong. For some reason I think it used to be a lot cheaper 
and not way back when either.  It makes the cost of an 
ordinarly letter seem cheap in comparison.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com