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Re: Say USD10 for USPS airmail letter post up to four small signal tubes, not that hard(NT)

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Am I doing something wrong? I'm a small time seller on E-bay, about 250 sales, mostly telescope items, but word is spreading and friends are dropping off their cr*p, like Porsche gages. Anyway, here's an example: I calculate shipping at www.usps.com for overseas packages and the cheapest I get for 1/4 pound to Italy is $14.00. If I'm selling something for under, I dunno, $50, it isn't worth it to split shipping costs. Is there a cheaper way to do it?

Also, the US post office acts as a customs agent. I investigated shipping outside the US via Fedex or UPS and discovered I needed to get a customs agent-it quickly became too arcane, time consuming, and expensive to even bother figuring out. I'll ship smaller items overseas but that's one reason why amatuer's and small fry won't ship outside the US. The 'system' favors big fry.

Anyone know a resource, book, website that explains how to do overseas shipping I'd appreciate it.

(And Canada customs is about the worst!)


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