I completely understand the need to raise the
prices and as I said to a friend, if they lose
15% of thier business, the USPS still sees an
increase in revenue for less work. However, there
can be no doubt that for small business, these extra costs are pretty hazardous
At 04:42 PM 2/9/2013, Simon Oram wrote:
And they wonder why the global economy is up the
Khyber, just the thing get people trading internationally eh..Simon
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From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com>
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Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 15:43:49 -0800
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ReplyTo: Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com>
Subject: [MOPO] OMFG: International shipping
costs have shot through the roof!!
Holy Schmoley Folks.... I just returned from the
post office doing the weekly International
shipping, and I am absolutely flabbergasted.
I'm right now doing recalculations of what
shipping was 3 weeks ago & what shipping is now,
but it looks like shipping to Canada has more
than doubled, Shipping to Australia is up 40+%
and shipping to the UK is up also about 40+%
New size restrictions are in, so the 36" long
tube I had going to the UK as Air Mail under
3lbs can now only be shipped by Priority Mail.
Same thing with the 36" tube going to Lebanon
(fortunately, we can cut the tubes down a couple
inches and repackage these 2 orders).
Unfortunately, what that means is that I also
have to raise my rates and while previous rate
increases were along the order of $1 or $2, this
rate increase is going to startle all of you. A
simple 2lb package going to Canada, which I have
been charging $11.00 for shipping, will be
$19.00 (our rates, just as with all sellers,
includes approx $3.00 for shipping materials and labor).
It looks like Australia and Europe will be
increasing to $27.00 from $20.00 for just the basic orders
These new rates make it all the more important
to be able to merge several week's worth of
auctions into one package for International
bidders, which our International buyers have
known we do all along. It's more important now..
I can't imagine what this does to the casual
seller on fleaBay who sells a few posters here and there.
Does anyone use Carrier Pigeons??
Rich
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