Shipping prices • Collecting General • The Acaeum

The Acaeum Forums • Collecting General

Shipping prices
	Page 1 of 1

Author

Deadlord
Grandstanding Collector

Posts: 5885
Joined: Jun 30, 2003
Last Visit: Jul 31, 2026
Location: Cow Hampshire, US

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:57 am

Hi all!

Is it me, or are the shipping prices for USPS pretty much INSANE?!?! Seriously, $34 to ship a small flat-rate box to Greece? Gas is cheaper than milk right now, and has been for ages. Wages are as flat as Kate Moss's tits, and USPS feels the need to raise prices TEN PERCENT?
Is UPS cheaper? Fedex? Carrier pigeon? I hate having to exclude overseas people from buying things, but DAYUM!

If you hit a Rowsdower, you get to keep it.

Badmike
Grandstanding Collector
Acaeum Donor

Posts: 8079
Joined: Jun 23, 2003
Last Visit: Jun 24, 2026
Location: DFW TX

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:48 pm

Deadlord wrote in Shipping prices:Hi all!

Is it me, or are the shipping prices for USPS pretty much INSANE?!?! Seriously, $34 to ship a small flat-rate box to Greece? Gas is cheaper than milk right now, and has been for ages. Wages are as flat as Kate Moss's tits, and USPS feels the need to raise prices TEN PERCENT?
Is UPS cheaper? Fedex? Carrier pigeon? I hate having to exclude overseas people from buying things, but DAYUM!

Welcome to congress giving the USPS the option to raise their prices every year....domestic priority took a hit also ($.70-80 cents per package).

Mike B.

"THE MORE YOU THINK ABOUT WHY i DONE WHAT i DONE THE MORE i LAUGH" Cougar
"The Acaeum hates fun" Sir Allen
"I had a collecting emergency" Nogrod
Co-founder of the North Texas RPG Con
NTRPGCON

Deadlord
Grandstanding Collector

Posts: 5885
Joined: Jun 30, 2003
Last Visit: Jul 31, 2026
Location: Cow Hampshire, US

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:13 pm

Do we still subsidize these leeching maggots with our tax dollars?

If you hit a Rowsdower, you get to keep it.

ibm_ted
Prolific Collector

Posts: 148
Joined: Jan 19, 2016
Last Visit: Aug 31, 2017
Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:24 am

Yeah, the 2016 USPS price increase took me by surprise. But shockingly, USPS domestic priority still seems to be much cheaper and faster than UPS ground...

misterspock
Sage Collector
Acaeum Donor

Posts: 2763
Joined: Sep 25, 2007
Last Visit: Feb 22, 2026

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 1:34 am

I must have missed USPS saying anything about this rate increase. and I'd been shipping internationally a lot last year.

... I just checked it out. Very annoying. They'll raise prices for any reason they come up with.

misterspock
Sage Collector
Acaeum Donor

Posts: 2763
Joined: Sep 25, 2007
Last Visit: Feb 22, 2026

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 1:37 am

ibm_ted wrote in Shipping prices:Yeah, the 2016 USPS price increase took me by surprise. But shockingly, USPS domestic priority still seems to be much cheaper and faster than UPS ground...

btw, welcome to the forum! are you "IBM Ted" Because you use a PC or are you a current or former employee of IBM?

ibm_ted
Prolific Collector

Posts: 148
Joined: Jan 19, 2016
Last Visit: Aug 31, 2017
Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 7:03 am

misterspock wrote in Shipping prices:
ibm_ted wrote in Shipping prices:Yeah, the 2016 USPS price increase took me by surprise. But shockingly, USPS domestic priority still seems to be much cheaper and faster than UPS ground...

btw, welcome to the forum! are you "IBM Ted" Because you use a PC or are you a current or former employee of IBM?

Thanks! It's an old PC gaming nickname that stuck through the years (I'm just glad it wasn't Tandy Ted ;-)

)

misterspock
Sage Collector
Acaeum Donor

Posts: 2763
Joined: Sep 25, 2007
Last Visit: Feb 22, 2026

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 12:08 pm

yeah I remember the "Tandy Trash-80"... that wouldn't sound too good :lol:

btw, the post that you put in the classified forum can't be replied to in the thread directly by anyone other than the author, so if you re-post your question in one of these forums, then people can reply and post photos of information you're looking for.

The Acaeum Forums • Collecting General

Page 1 of 1