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Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers by inferiorhuman on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:31PM (#20812979)
With USPS it will depend largely on how you send it. Priority Mail will be expensive (and fairly quick). A first class package (if you're within the limits) can be much cheaper if you don't mind the lack of tracking.

I mailed some 8x10s overseas in a rigid envelope and my friend swore up and down it would be too expensive ($30+). I think in the end it cost under $10 per envelope. Meanwhile international postcards from Germany were like 2€.

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Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers by magduf on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:51PM (#20814297)
>Meanwhile international postcards from Germany were like 2€.

What are you talking about? I was just in Germany last year, and sent a bunch of international postcards for €0.90 each. That's the standard postcard rate for sending a postcard anywhere in the world. (It's €0.45 within Germany.)

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Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers by inferiorhuman on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @05:32PM (#20814585)
Prices went up this year, and from my POV the German post was indecipherable. An international post card required two stamps. Deutsche Post is showing domestic postcards at 0.60€, but their postage calculator is showing international postcards at 0.95€. Fuck if I remember what I paid.
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