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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.

Were you sending it directly to Germany and Afghanistan or to an APO/FPO address here in the states? If you sent it APO or FPO then the military handles it rather than the post office shipping it overseas and putting it into the local mail system.

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.

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.

Those Flat Rate Boxes are only good with in the United States . The only reason you were able to use them for Germany and Afghanistan is that you are mailing to an APO address and that is considered like mailing with in the United States - only difference is that you also have to add the customs declaration .

People in the service get APO addresses so when you are mailing to them it is the same rate . Now say it is your son that is in the service and your daughter in law is not in the service and she works in a store in Berlin and you want to mail her a package directly to the store she works at .Then you would not be able to use that box anymore as that store does not have an APO address and that 15.00 package would now cost you what ever rate a normal package that size and weight was to that area.