Shipping Charges Out Of This World!

It really does

Shipping is not cheap in comparison to your work. What else can be said about it? It costs me the same ($26) to ship a piece to a city that is 1.5 hours away and that is after my business discount. The alternative to that is to drive it myself which would cost double that and 3 hours of my time. You have options. One is if you don't like it then don't get FAA to do it for you.

John, why not have it printed in Canada?

I had no idea it was that much. hmmm.. I've had quite a few people state that they were going on my site to buy this or that. I would see that they would visit but never would buy. I never asked why but I think this is probably why. I'll have to go back and ask them now.

Melissa, John is in Canada....

International shipping is never cheap - I ship a calendar in an envelope to Canada and its just over $11. Just the way it is.

Shipping charges out of this world really would be expensive! But I'm sure E.T. would like the art.

Yeah, the PO really jacked up the rates within the last year. I used to have a collector in Canada of my small (5"x7"), inexpensive originals. Fully packaged they only weighed like 7 ounces. They used to cost about $6 to ship and then, overnight, the rate jumped to $15! I no longer have a collector in Canada. :(

I have accounts set up with many sites to handle this . One has a printer in Canada. I don't have a lot of images on them but if I had a client I can upload something right away for them. The prices are all comparable except the shipping. I am looking forward to the day FAA/Pixels has a printer in Canada , Australia and more.

Would you share your Canadian printer, Bradford?

Go to usps.com and see what it costs. That is the US Post office.

Go to FedEx or UPS and the also have a shipping calculator.

meh, those charges or more (usually more) are common with aust post and they are raising their prices yet again.

Gotta pay for those pension plans - and make up for the loss of revenue from email - because not enough people use snail mail any more.

John, a Canadian printer I use for local prints has decent shipping rates. Printing is much less and is very professional and framing is superb.
It is not a POD site, so you have to take care of payment from the customer, and then you pay CanvasCanada.
I tried Canada Post, but that is costly too.
http://canvascanada.ca/shipping.html
Some information from the site:
" Rolled Canvas
A flat rate of $8.00 parcel post is applied to orders that contain only unstretched canvas. This rate is regardless of quanity (unlimited) and is used often by our professional customers who perform their own stretching and framing.
Multiple Stretched or Framed Canvas or Aluminum prints
A flat rate of $25.00 MAX is used for multiple stretched or framed canvas orders. If orders placed result in less estimated shipping we will invoice accordingly (eg 3x 8x10 stretched canvas is still only $13.00 Shipping) "

the base price shipping is actually comparable to the real world, its when you add a second poster then it really adds up. but make sure its defaulting to your country. and it may be time to increase your prices so they balance better.

just an fyi, you have people going to galleries, but you have none. so not only are your images not sorted, it looks like you have none.

---Mike Savad

and fedex charges just increased as well, they raised prices on certain services.

---Mike Savad

I'm always amazed how I can buy some small thing like a lens cap off of Amazon and it arrives within days from Hong Kong and the shipping is only a few bucks. But its usually #10 envelope size.

I know, Ed!
I've also discovered that an A7 envelope takes 4-5 days to get across country when a bubble envelope goes in 2. Priority is not always 2 days...my last one took 5 days..If I had only put the contents in a bubble envelope, I could have saved big on mailing charges as well.
Peggy, contact me privately from my website...we are not allowed to post other vendors in this forum. ;)

Oops, I wasn't thinking. Thanks, Marlene, I'll send you a pm.

John, on top of the shipping charge you will need to pay duty or broker fee on that print. One time, a friend from Florida send me a small package and I was charge $69 broker fee by UPS.. I avoid to buy things from the US for that reason.

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