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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2338553, member: 71234&quot;]<i>It makes no sense for small or casual sellers to take the added risks involved with international selling. That doesn&#039;t even get into the issues with tracking, unreliable postal services, dishonest postal services ect depending on the country.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>My point all along is that the &#039;extra risk&#039; is in fact extremely small.</p><p><br /></p><p>My loss rate for thousands of items sent internationally(never with any tracking) was about 1 in 500. I would have considered 1 in 100 acceptable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tracking is not some magic protection spell, you can do without it. You simply insure your item against loss in transit. The USPS provides delivery confirmation for First Class International mail to a large number of countries, so you could consider limiting your selling to those countries. It is probably wise to avoid selling to those countries the insurers will not cover but that still leaves at least the richer half of the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>THe worst I cvan say about postal services is that some are slow. This is most notable shipping to the USA, the only country in myexperience where there are long delays in customs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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