My handling of overseas shipping so far has been to have a 'foreign  
shipping surcharge' for countries outside North America. I initially  
set it at $2 flat surcharge per order. After about 6 months I looked  
over the numbers and raised it to $3. It works for the general volume  
and average size or orders with one exception. Postage to  
Australia ... once I get above a couple of ounces it is beating my  
margin hard. I would say that $0.15 to 0.20 of that $1.00 raise in  
the foreign shipping surcharge is balancing the extra postage to  
Australia.

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On Jan 8, 2007, at 5:18 PM, James Newton, Host wrote:

> My solution? Right now, the "good" countries are paying extra to  
> make up for
> the "bad" ones. On the average, it works out. One of these years, I  
> need to
> install a shopping cart program that will allow me to quote shipping
> separately based on the country it is going to. So far, I haven't  
> seen one
> that will A) run on a windows server B) provide that sort of  
> function C)
> cost something I can afford, and I haven't had the time to write  
> one myself
> and test it to the point where I am comfortable using it for money  
> issues.
> But honestly, I don't do enough international shipping to make it  
> worth the
> extra effort.

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