It makes no difference how cheap it is if the package fails to reach it's destination, which has been my experience 50% of the time.

Sure it does.

If a 500% surcharge is required for insured delivery, I'll go with the cheapie version every time when shipping a $15 circuit board. If it takes two tries (50% success rate), I still save a bundle!

But in practice, I've only had 100% success thus far.

-ml

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I'll go with the cheapie version every time when shipping a $15 circuit board.

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The thing is that's not what we're shipping . At least not yet anyway.

Stu

I don't want to presume what the difference is between the component cost and your selling price, but you could add on your own insurance.

For example add $$$ to each order to pay for the odd one that goes missing, I have never had anything go missing, so going with the other figures quoted we could assume that 75% would arrive OK. So for 10 orders that would leave $175 component cost to recover (for example only) so add $17 to each order insurance send them via the cheap mothod and the shipping cost is almost halved.

I would say that it is more likley that 95%+ of orders would arrive OK in time. my dock took 5 weeks but only cost $15 and weighs as much as 100's of boards.

I am in no way complaining etc... (don't want to upset anyone) I can understand that FedEx is way easier for you, it is just for me it is a real pain and will cost me almost the cost of the board again in shipping and customs.

Cheers

Cris.

Yes, FedEx is much better, I just shipped an item to Canada yesterday through the post office and it ended up taking 45 minutes. The line was practically out the door. Nevertheless all international shipping charges have been reduced to $25 and will be shipped via some form of USPS offering.

Stu