Re: [Elecraft] Postal Price Increase

2016-01-21 Thread Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft
Folks - we're drifting way OT. Let's close this thread now in the interest of controlling list volume and overload for others. 73, Eric Moderator /elecraft.com/ On 1/21/2016 10:09 AM, Jeff Schmidt wrote: Yes, but think about it - fuel prices are... oh, wait. nevermind! ;^) On 01/20/2016 06:

Re: [Elecraft] Postal Price Increase

2016-01-21 Thread Jeff Schmidt
Yes, but think about it - fuel prices are... oh, wait. nevermind! ;^) On 01/20/2016 06:06 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: > >> I have had some international orders for just the K3 sides at 49.95 > > but they get hit with over 60 bucks in shipping fees before this fee > > increase. > > International s

Re: [Elecraft] Postal Price Increase

2016-01-20 Thread Don Wilhelm
i agree that International shipping is expensive (BTW, that does not include Alaska, Hawaii or US possessions such as Puerto Rica). Domestic shipping is not as bad. USPS has raised the rates on their Flat Rate shipping by a substantial amount, but the rates on USPS non-flat rate has not bee

Re: [Elecraft] Postal Price Increase

2016-01-20 Thread Szabó István
Just bought a BCD-14 and paid more for shipping than the PCB cost. Might have bad long term effect on manufacturers also. 73, István ha4zd __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mail

Re: [Elecraft] Postal Price Increase

2016-01-20 Thread Joe Subich, W4TV
I have had some international orders for just the K3 sides at 49.95 > but they get hit with over 60 bucks in shipping fees before this fee > increase. International shipping was absurd *before* this last increase. I had foreign customers pay nearly as much to ship a cable as the cost of the c

Re: [Elecraft] Postal Price Increase

2016-01-20 Thread KD6QZX
Howdy Howie! Hey how do you do your shipping is it via PayPal or do you have some other personal postal set up?    I have just added new K3 /K3s and P3 replacement side panels and I have to use the Medium Flat rate box for this.  I have had some international orders for just the K3 sides at 49.9

[Elecraft] Postal Price Increase

2016-01-20 Thread Howard Hoyt
Hi all, Starting January 17, 2016, the USPS increased postal rates as much as 16%: http://blog.stamps.com/2015/10/22/usps-announces-postage-rate-increase-starts-january-17-2016/ Pro Audio Engineering will hold our Priority shipping rates at the old price until the end of January. Thank yo