[FatherofFive]

I’ve been sending stuff to Germany and Afghanistan to my daugther and son in law. Package pricing is rarely above 15 dollars and I use priority mail, often the flat rates. I wonder why yours is so much. My stuff before Christmas got to AFG in under two weeks.

This is the pricing from the USPS website. it is still a good deal, but they jacked the rates almost 50% from a montha ago.

[muawiyah]

The answer is you are actually mailing to an APO or FPO. That's at Domestic Mail rates. The other folks are mailing to a country ~ under International Mail rates.

In effect our GI Joes and Janes get a taxpayer subsidized delivery service ~ but you pay the average freight to the office inside the USA which transfers that mail to the custody of the military!

BTW, just because you can associate an APO number with a foreign city or area or an FPO with a ship, that doesn't mean the individual is even there. A common military practice is to give you an APO number that has nothing to do with your location. Then, unbeknownst to anybody in USPS, or with the mailers, or you, or them, arrange to transfer that mail to the right place ~ which keeps specific assignments almost secret.

[merry10]

No. I mailed a large flat rate yesterday.

[merry10]

No. I mailed a large flat rate yesterday.