International Shipping Price Changes

As many of you know, the USPS raised its Priority International mail rates on Monday, January 4th, 2010. Not great news, but the increases were not too bad. The USPS will not raise first class international prices until sometime mid-year. I have redone my INTERNATIONAL shipping chart with these new increases.

 

If you aren’t already using my International Shipping Cheat Sheet, I highly recommend it. It saves us literally hours a month in quoting shipping rates to our international customers. The international market is a great place to get more exposure for your auctions so why not start selling to a wider audience and see what happens to your bottom line? My cheat sheet will make it faster and easier to quote the most commonly asked question you get from international buyers.

 

A downloadable version will be the Queen’s Court gift for January and is on the forums for download now.  If you want to get the laminated hard copy version – so handy to keep by your computer to make quick shipping quotes – with the 1st class domestic retail page on the back side, you can order it here at a great price and be ready for the new changes! I know I can’t live without my laminated USPS International rate chart and use it about five times a day.

 

UPS has also announced price increases, but I am not worried about these at this time. I have been quietly adding 50 cents to $1 to my base UPS s/h/i prices in anticipation of this change.