USPS Shipping in time for Christmas 2011!
 

https://www.usps.com/shippingdates/welcome.htm

I know last year it was a nightmare with the flights being delayed due to the bad weather etc and some of us recieved and vice versa, parcels weeks after Christmas so be prepared this year ;)

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Thanks for the info. I really need to get my backside in gear and sort out gifts/cards for the UK. My mum sent my kids stuff for last Christmas around Dec 6 and it finally arrived mid January! :frown: Must do better this year!

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Yep same here every year I say it "must do better this year" do I!!! :o

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Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to make this a sticky

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Same here...:)

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So what prices are people getting?

The medium sized flat rate boxes that are $10 anywhere in the US, cost $45 to the UK.

A similar sized Priority Air Mail box is $38 for 4 pounds of weight.

Might be cheaper to send multiple smaller parcels, anything under 4 pounds is easier anyway...

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Really on the $10 box that's odd I sent one a couple of months ago for about $20 something I thought!

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Yeah, cheeky sods raised the cost and it's probably only going up because of the holidays...I asked this morning....not to impressed :D

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Pleased you mentioned that, I wonder how many poor sods will get caught out!!

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Not only have they put the prices up but the flat rate boxes are smaller. I have one I received a couple of years ago and its huge by comparison to the large size boxes now.

Just sent a 17x17 box to the grandudes ... $58 :\ Dread to think what the smaller parcels to the UK are going to cost. The guy at the post office said if I get them off by the end of this week they should be there in time for Christmas ... should ... hmmmzz

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I just sent Christmas gifts to my friends newborn son in the medium sized flat rate box to N. Ireland and it was $45.50 while the website says it is $43.23 international. Not too much of a difference thankfully or I would have been really annoyed.

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I sent one off yesterday back to NI. Had to use our own box as the medium flat rate was too small. Cost $59.40 for a 10.5 lb parcel, said it would arrive 6-10 working days, so by the 20th/21st.

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I got an email from my friend in Magherafelt, NI that the package I sent her on Monday morning arrived with her today. :thumbsup:

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Hell's bells. Did you send it priority, or bog standard cheapo mail (like I did :o)?

At least my folks will get their presents before Christmas this year, I think it was December 29th when I sent their box last year ...

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I thought regular airmail but looking at the receipt it says Priority on it. Would that be because I used one of their flat rate boxes do you think? All the cards etc I am sending seem to be arriving in about a week. Mailed a friend a card with a fridge magnet in it, as she wanted one from Canada when I went there last month, on Thursday last week and it arrived today too.