Just ordered my first SwissMicros... DM42n

[Eric Rechlin]

(10-25-2024 06:56 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  My worst shipping experiences are when buying from UK. I buy books from a publisher there that mails using some kind of 'standard' international British Postal service, which is very expensive (often $20-25 for a single 100-page, softcover book)

Unfortunately this is now the typical price of shipping such an item from the US to any other country. Canada would only be about $17, but most other countries are in the $20ish range.

(10-25-2024 06:56 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  One advantage I do have though is essentially all items I order have no customs or 'handling' fees, so I guess I should not complain.

This may soon change. The tariff-free threshold (called "de minimis", below which you don't have to pay customs fees) used to be $200 and then was raised to $800 in 2016, but there has been recent discussion (with a variety of bills proposed in Congress over the last year or so) of lowering that threshold again, as the US is looking into raising tariffs for more imports. Pretty much all the major trading partners of the US have thresholds below $200 ($111 for Canada and $168 for Germany and $178 for the UK, for some relevant examples, according to one source I found) so although nothing has been decided, they may try for something in that range.