What are our French members using to send minis?

[FramFramson]

I was looking at buying a single mini from France, but it seems like the cheapest international parcel price from France I can find on La Poste's website is now fully 25 Euro?! This is possibly the worst postal rate for parcels I've seen anywhere.

I guess you can send things as a letter because the La Poste width limit for letters is 3cm, which is comparatively generous, but the seller doesn't seem to know how to repackage the figure (it comes in a fairly oversized box - I've asked him if he would just repackage it) and so won't.

Yet I see ebay sellers in France with Matchbox cars or other similar toy cars who are charging roughly between 9 EUR and 13 EUR for shipping and these are obviously much larger or heavier than a miniature. They typically list shipping as being by "Colis Internationale Economique", so I'm not sure what service they are using?

[Momotaro]

I've recently had parcels from France sent via Colissimo that were reasonably priced.

[FramFramson]

Seems like Canada gets vastly higher charges than the EU though Colissimo as well - very comparable to La Poste (within a euro or so).

[zizi666]

frenchfever just sent me a package from France to Belgium through Mondial Relay for an astounding €4,5.
I had to walk a full 3 mins to a shop pick it up once it arrived there 
Big thumbs up for that service !