Most countries have arrangements to deliver each others' mail. There is
usually minimal or no fee for this. The outgoing country chooses how
much to charge. Equivalence of postal class is attempted to achieve some
homologation of delivery and handing types.

Bob

On Mon, May 25, 2015, at 01:58 PM, Jason White wrote:
> I am located in the US and have always found it odd how cheaply
> packages can be shipped to the US (usually less than $3.00, sometimes
> less than $1.00) yet how expensive it is to send equivalent packages
> back overseas from the US.

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