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Topic: Increases in International Shipping costs - post office |
Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 14 Feb 2013 3:39 pm |
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The post office recently increased shipping costs across the board, especially on international packages. The cost of sending my books and CDs to Canada has doubled! It was about $5.50 per package (1 book with 2 CDs) until a couple of weeks ago. Now it's $10.55 for the same package. Shipping to most countries in Europe used to cost about $13, and now it's $19. My 60 Song book is my heaviest book, and that now costs over $20 to send to Europe. So... I had to increase my shipping charges and add some new PayPal buttons to my web site. Inflation keeps creeping up... makes you wonder where it's all going to end. 
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 14 Feb 2013 3:54 pm yes
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yeap I mailed a vol pedal and some small parts off the other day priority mail
postage/ins/cust sign for/ 22.00 total in the 48
jeeps!!!
I wont be mailing much else I can say that
Mike 
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 15 Feb 2013 1:25 am
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i read you loud & clear Doug
i've noticed USPS rates keep creeping up & up
not very encouraging is it ? |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 15 Feb 2013 8:10 am
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| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
True, everything goes up except musician's pay!  |
'tis true. When I quit playing gigs around the city last year, my pay was about the same as what my grandfather made on gigs 70 years ago.
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Don Sulesky
From:
Citrus County, FL, Orig. from MA & NH
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Posted 17 Feb 2013 4:01 pm
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I shipped a guitar in the CONUSA a few months ago by USPS and the clerk charged me a $52 surcharge because he said it was 2 inches over the limit.
Strange as it may seem 3 months earlier I did the same thing with a guitar of the same size but heavier for $19.00.
It depends on which clerk you get is what I found out from the head clerk and how they measure it.
My calculations on their web site showed no surcharge for my package size and weight.
Don
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James Quackenbush
From:
Pomona, New York, USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2013 3:29 am
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| Every business that the government runs is running in the Red .....I would think that you would all be use to this by now ........ Pay more, get less ......Jim |
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Larry Bressington
From:
Nebraska
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Posted 26 Feb 2013 2:01 pm
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I did an online UPS quote to ship a D10 to the UK and it came up as $1,900
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Carl Kilmer
From:
East Central, Illinois
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Posted 18 Mar 2013 8:39 pm
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In January I sent a GFI seat thru USPS for $14.89 
Today I sent one just like it in a smaller box $25.99   
All I can say is I'm done shipping with them.
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Ray Thomas
From:
Goldsboro North Carolina
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Posted 19 Mar 2013 5:54 pm Shipping
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Tried to ship a box 6" tall, 6" wide, 6" deep weighing 1.3 lb. to UK, price $18.60
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 19 Mar 2013 7:56 pm
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I shipped 2 books to Australia yesterday, identical packaging. One was $14.90 and the other was $16.75.
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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steve takacs
From:
beijing, china via pittsburgh (deceased)
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Posted 10 Apr 2013 8:23 pm Post Office
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| James, I don't know how it is at this moment, but I have always found the Post Office to be cheaper than UPS or FED-EX and I've never had a problem using the Post Office. When on of my sales did come back, it was because the buyer accidentally put on the wrong zip code. steve t |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Wayne D. Clark
From:
Montello Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2013 9:55 am
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| So the question seems to be, why don't we use the post office more, well maybe because they don't do Pick up. Well they do at my mail box, but who can stick a D10 in there headed for London. And who pays the bill when the Post Office needs a bail out from the Gov. We do. what's wrong with that Picture. Who ever thught a government agency could make money. Even as a private entity the past few years it has not done well, How ever do not stop my saturday mail delivery! |
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