A POSTAL RANT FROM ROKKERR

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June 13th, 2013, 12:54 pm

Just spent a bunch of time at the post office... which is supposedly going out of business....

HOW?

To ship a SMALL box to Spain?!! $25
One light poster to England?! $15
One package to Holland?! $90..... and in that country they charge the recipient the value of what is shipped too!

International shipping is OUT OF CONTROL..... $15 seems to be the minimum for just about anything than a card. I don't get it. Why not offer a discount for people that say ship 20 of the exact same thing to Europe?

Can't believe an item that is worth $20, costs more to ship. Just saying. :ohthedrama:
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June 13th, 2013, 2:38 pm

wow 90$ to holland, that's fuckin crazy.

and in Holland they charge the recipient for the item too ? :wtf: is that ???

That can't be right .... maybe they meant it as C.O.D. ?
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June 14th, 2013, 1:43 pm

Wow, that's an insane amount to Holland!

Do any of the courier services offer discounts on multiple deliveries if you have accounts with them? I suppose international shipping is always going to be expensive, but maybe you can negotiate a flat fee up to a certain weight if you're sending out more than say, 10-20 packages a week?
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June 16th, 2013, 1:51 am

I hate ordering shit online to Canada, sometimes it takes forever!

Shit even shipping stuff to CANADA is expensive from the US (I live in canada). I've wanted to order some shirts from this one place for a long time but the shirt is like $25, and shipping is $25-30 as well.

If I ordered supplements from bodybuilding.com it costs me maybe $10 for something like 6-10 business days which is fine with me. If I wanted to get it within 4-6 days, it costs $50-60 lol 5x the price for a few extra days. Sometimes that costs more then the product.

AND the other thing I hate is CUSTOMS!!!!!!! I've ordered soemthing from PA and it took 4 or 5 weeks to get to my house. It was just a t-shirt too, it usually takes about 3 weeks average to get to me and even that is ridiculous.
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June 16th, 2013, 1:14 pm

Over seas shipping is a nightmare for sure ahd a friens how moved to Ireland and i would send him stuff periodically and is was a horror show I found that USPS priority shipping was the fastest but could get expensive ,
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June 16th, 2013, 1:48 pm

I sent a package to Norway. I thought it was a little expensive, but it got there within 2 weeks - maybe 10 days or so.
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June 16th, 2013, 3:13 pm

Rokkerr shipping to Italy is worse. i tried shipping some magazines twice and after neither got delivered we just refunded his money.
many euros that i have talked to complain that once an item is valued above 5o dollars customs gets slow
in England guys have been hit with a duty and delivery charge equaling the value of the item ordered.
i fully believe the Post Office should guy bankrupt and be replaced kinda like real business do
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