If I'd known, I'd have mailed a package to Switzerland last week.
The cost of mailing packages overseas has gone up—a lot. The Priority Mail Large Video Box (O-1096L), about which I raved in Great News for Those with Family Overseas, is now a whopping $23.95. How can the government keep pretending inflation is low when the price for this governmental service has nearly doubled in two years?
It's still cheaper than a flight overseas, but not nearly so much fun. Good thing Vivienne's birthday isn't a week later!
Ooh. Not nice! Still cheaper than the other way, but not by much anymore... We'll appreciate the packages all the more!
Bummer! I was wondering how long that would last. But if it makes a trip to Switzerland more attractive . . .
Last January when I saw that the small international flat-rate box had gone up $7.00, I almost fainted. Apparently, domestic mail cannot rise faster than the rate of inflation BY LAW, but that does not apply to international mail. The post office, which is nearly bankrupt now, is looking for any way that it can to make money. I have a business, and I have lost quite a bit of international business because of this.
