On Nov 17, 11:17*pm, Davey wrote:
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:13:16 +0000









Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:06:25 -0000, "Jake"
wrote:

Approximately how much would it cost to ship a low value package
from US to UK? It would be about the same size as a ream of paper,
but 1/3rd the weight, certainly under two kilos.

Don't want the priority service that I imagine costs around £50
upwards and takes a few days, the slow service that takes upwards of
a couple of weeks and goes by normal post (not UPS or Fedex) would
be fine.

Your cheapest option is USPS 1st Class International - up to a couple
of kilos (might be 3, actually) and can often catch the fast plane,
depending on how full it is; but at this time of year, probably not.

Next step up is USPS International Priority Signed-for, iirc. Twice
the price, or more.

Unfortunately, USPS stopped the slowboat service; that was really
cheap for large items, but took up to three months.

It is interesting that your local Post Office will still give you Air
Mail stickers for your envelope, when there is no alternative.

Whose local post office? UK or US? The reason the UK POs do it is that
surface mail is available from the UK.

MBQ