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

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:50 PM, <manualman at juno.com> wrote:

> I can ship by USPS 70 pounds of stuff to Alaska or Hawaii or to my
> neighbor next door in a large Priority Mail flat-rate box for $17.45. Try
> that with UPS.
>

I had to ship a R-388 to the UK a year or so back. Surface rates went away
some years ago, so it's all 'overnight' air more or less, even though it
takes a few days. UPS online calculator came out around $1K and FedWrex
around $1.5K.

USPS Priority International was $203. That was double-boxed with a lot of
packing. I see plenty of quotes on ebay and elsewhere for $100+ to ship a
receiver stateside. So Priority International seems like a reasonable deal
still if you need to ship across the pond.

Back in 2002 I had 75kg of WWII aircraft gear shipped here from Oz for
about $500 by FedWrex Air. They even provided the heavy duty cartons. Times
have indeed changed.

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4