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The post office has already proposed a hike of .02 for first class stamps to start in January, assuming there is Congressional? approval. Stll, first class mail offered by USPS is still leaps and bounds cheaper than Fedex or any other competitors...

In terms of Canada, for expensive cards, there is quite a jump needed to protect yourself from $2 to $15 or so as you will need to send Express Mail, the only iron-clad option for any eBay "Item Not Recieved" claim...Apparently Registered Mail is not a slam dunk if a claim against you (and this is $10 or so anyway). Of course, there is no DC to Canada or many other foreign countries b/c when USPS implemented that years ago their foreign offices would routinely drop the ball on this service.

I sold a $300 card on eBay a few weeks ago from Canada from a bidder with 2feedback and after sending it registered (I did not know at that time that this mailing method was no6 100% safe) I got an email from this guy saying he had the wrong address on file...I still don't know exactly what has happened to this card, hopefully the guy got it. What is scary though is that he could say "never got item" and MAY be able to win against me since I sent it registered. He emailed me and when I told him I had registered mail, etc. I think he got scared off. He may have been kicking the tires to see if I had any tracking and then was going to keep the card and get a refund of $300. Who knows.