It's funny how the cost of different things can vary so much from country to country. Postage is one of these ...
Each year I send out Christmas cards to friends and family. The price of the stamp usually varies depending on where I'm posting it to. From memory, last year a stamp within Australia was 60c, to the USA was $2.50 and to Europe was $1.75 (I could be remembering incorrectly!).
This year I want to keep up my tradition so I've started writing out my cards. This time round I need to send out the Australian ones first (to allow enough time for them to arrive). The cost to post a letter from here to Australia is $1.15, and I discovered it's actually a flat rate to any country outside of the USA/Canada. So I was very happy to find out that it's much cheaper to post the cards from here. It's only 49c to post the cards within the USA as well, so that's even better news!
I also sent my first parcel home to David! It was about $60 but it's not too bad considering the weight of the box (9 lbs something - I don't know how many kgs, it just says lbs on the receipt). Basically they have three different sized boxes. You can opt to pay by weight (if you are sending something light), so you can stuff it as full as possible and pay a flat rate to send it. That's what I did - and now I have to play the waiting game for it to arrive. Hopefully before Christmas!!
This is probably boring to most people, but I found it kinda interesting.
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