Olin wrote: > Another reluctance may be that it's much more a pain in the butt to send > something outside the country than domestic. For domestic priority mail I > can use the click and ship feature of the USPS web site. You may want to try USPS Shipping Assistant. IMHO, it's more user-friendly than their web-based version, and has some extra useful features. > That means I can > print a shipping label and pay for postage on line, then just dump the > package at the post office without standing in line. Click and ship never > seems to work right for international shipments. We've been using Click-and-Ship for over four years now, it definitely beats filling out the forms by hand. > I have to go to the post > office, stand in line, fill out both addresses by hand 3 times, customs > information, etc. Some folks may have concluded it's just not worth it, > or > would have to charge too much shipping if they include their full cost, > including time and hassle at the post office. You can always hire someone to drop the packages at the post office for you. :-) Of course, you would have to be sending a lot of international packages in order to justify that. It works for us because roughly half of our orders come from outside the US. The following rant has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit your screen and edited to run in the time allotted and for content. I think it's time for the government to privatize USPS. Their whole philosophy seems to be anti-small business, it is wasteful and suppresses innovation. For example, our local PO used to have a window just for business customers. That lasted for about two weeks, then the policy was reversed, supposedly because it was unfair to 'regular' customers. > Unfortunately I don't know of a good answer. I now print both addresses > three times on small labels in the office which I can just stick to the > forms at the post office, but it took me a while to think of that and get > used to doing it. Try the website again, maybe you'll like it. The latest version incorporates the Customs form into the shipping label. HINT: In order to use both USPS Shipping Assistant and Click-n-Ship, follow this procedure: 1. Completely uninstall any Adobe Acrobat products you have on your system. Clean the registry, too. 2. Install Acrobat Reader 7.0. 3. Install Acrobat Reader 5.0 The order in which the steps are performed is essential. If you install 7.0 over 5.0, USPS SA refuses to work. If you don't install 7.0 over 5.0, you can't use the website. Best regards, Vitaliy -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist