US post office

[mysteriousbill]

To send one damn metal figure to the UK from the USA will cost me $13. Is there a cheaper way to send it?

[Steve F]

Did we really need such a vile profanity in the title?

[twrchtrwyth]

Steve, don't go to Frother's. You'd hate it there.

[mysteriousbill]

Did we really need such a vile profanity in the title?

I apologize was was angry when I wrote this, But this postage cost in obscene. If it was a letter it would cost next to nothing.

Bill

[mysteriousbill]

Did we really need such a vile profanity in the title?

Better?

[Elbows]

Welcome to...the USPS.  Companies can get good rates and can "maneuver" with companies like UPS and FedEx for reasonable(?) international postage.  For normal citizens, it's expensive, simply put.  We don't have government subsidized shipping like some countries.  The USPS is already operating at a loss (as they should - they're a service, not a business) so it won't likely change anytime soon.

It does negatively impact small-time sellers.

[Conquistador]

<snip>  The USPS is already operating at a loss (as they should - they're a service, not a business) so it won't likely change anytime soon.<snip>

That makes no sense.  Break even would be sensible.  

They are not privatized.  They are not a quasi-government organization.  They are simply whacked out like many government agencies.

http://postalnews.com/blog/2015/05/09/postal-myths-2-the-usps-is-not-a-government-agency/

But a service organization whether government or private should not lose money.

That point stated, yeah, it can be brutal shipping a single figure outside the USA.  That is why I don't sell my figures to U.K. or even outside the Lower 48 states (CONUS) as a rule.

I would rather give them away for pickup - multiple hundreds done that way last year - or just trash them - about 100 that way - than use USPS outside CONUS.  

Sad.

[joroas]

Do you know anyone who is coming here who could post it this side of the Pond?

[Sterling Moose]

If there's no rush send it to me in Canada.  I'm going over for Salute and can take it with me and post it there.

[Conquistador]

If there's no rush send it to me in Canada.  I'm going over for Salute and can take it with me and post it there.

A true gentleman!

[Elbows]

Sadly even Canada is not fantastic for our shipping (heck if I'm honest it's expensive to ship stuff across our own country most of the time!).

[grant]

Sadly even Canada is not fantastic for our shipping (heck if I'm honest it's expensive to ship stuff across our own country most of the time!).

It is usually cheaper to ship to us or Europe than across country. Makes no sense.

[Elbows]

Oddly shipping from Canada into the US is also prohibitively expensive.   

[FionaWhite]

The other day I was looking at ordering one single 28mm mini from the US.
Postage turned out to be 32.50 dollars. 

With that money I could buy at least one box of multipart plastic 28mm stuff on this side of the lake and still have money for candy.

[N.C.S.E]

Postage costs to Australia make doing business with the US absolutely impossible. It's a real shame.