Originally Posted by Zacharias

The per-book postage price his is batting around is for a premium service, I think the USPS equivalent is Express International or something like that. Parcelforce is the UK postal parcel service, widely known in the UK by its nickname ParcelFarce. (They begged for that one, didn't they?)

I am sure he could send the book via regular air mail for $15 or so. (I bought an SLS pump, which weighs about the same, on UK eBay last year and it cost the vendor less than $12 to mail it to me in Canada and took about 7 business days.)

They obviously want insurance, tracking and signed-for delivery on their orders (and the post office probably comes and picks up from their office for that price), and that is their business decision to make. But if he threw around those kind of shipping numbers when he inquired to US-based clubs, I can imagine why he didn't sense much enthusiasm .