Shipping prices for Lego

fcarcanague · Post by **fcarcanague** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:58 am

Not sure if this is the best place for this so here goes...
Approximatly what SHOULD it cost to ship a 1 pound package (train parts, blech) from the USA (me) to someone in Germany (purchaser)?
The USPS says $15, the purchaser says other BL sellers can do it for about $6. The parts (train engines) would not fare well in an bubble mailer going overseas, thus the shipping does cost more since it is a box. If any of you seller here know of a better way to ship this package to Germany please let me know wither here or via PM.

Thanks
Fred

Post by **architect** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:51 am

You are posting in the correct forum.

According to the USPS page Parcel Post is $14.

http://ircalc.usps.gov/speed.asp?Countr ... Contents=1

This is the type of overseas shipping I commonly use. For some reason, economy parcel post is very expensive. You may be able to send this with Letter Post if you fit within the size limitations. I did this once with a mailer envelope and it reached the Netherlands in 2-3 days (which isn't typical at all) but my package weighed much less than a pound.

Ben E.

fcarcanague · Post by **fcarcanague** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:05 am

This package should be less than a pound, only 3 train engines in the smallest box USPS gives out. In the US it would have been the cheap flat rate box for $3.85 or something.
I did consider the bubble envelope but affraid the boogie pins would get crushed.
I'll keep checking around, if anyone knows a cheaper way to ship US to Germany I want to know.

Fred

lemon_squeezer2 · Post by **lemon_squeezer2** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:57 pm

Here's an idea...

Send it in an envelope, but put a 1x1 round over the boogie pins. That should prevent them from being crushed and rounds are pretty cheap...