> I *do* understand
> your problems with international shipping.

What problems ?
To send an item by post from one side of a city to the other means
going to the post office, standing in line, asking "how much to send this
to xxxx" and paying the money.
To send an item by post from one side of the world to the other means
going to the post office, standing in line, asking "how much to send this
to xxxx" and paying the money. The difference is that instead of writing
the address on the box before you go, you have to fill out a waybill that
has the address, your address, what the box contains and the value.
The post office one is so simple that if a supplier can't manage to do
that, you have to have doubts about their product.

You don't even have to go to the post office to get the price. The
calculator at www.usps.com gives the options with the price and delivery
times. I've had US$500 items sent to me that way and there are no
problems.

Steve.

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