PSA Submission - Ridiculous Shipping Charges?

[midmo]

Originally Posted by rats60

Are you going to try to fit a slabbed card in a small flat rate box?

Are the smalls too small for a slab? Actually I just typically use small hard drive boxes I get from work and send regular priority (not flat rate) so it's even cheaper. Don't think I've ever spent more than $20 sending a card. Anyway, whatever works...

[sedin26]

To Canada, minimum return shipping was going to be $46! I wonder if any group subs take Canadian submissions, perhaps with more tacked on for extra shipping cost.

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by sedin26

To Canada, minimum return shipping was going to be $46! I wonder if any group subs take Canadian submissions, perhaps with more tacked on for extra shipping cost.

I believe in a group submission one person gets the cards back and then mails them out to everyone. Just ask whoever is organizing it if they would mind. My guess is no since you would cover the cost.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by midmo

Are the smalls too small for a slab? Actually I just typically use small hard drive boxes I get from work and send regular priority (not flat rate) so it's even cheaper. Don't think I've ever spent more than $20 sending a card. Anyway, whatever works...

A single slab will fit easily in a small flat rate box.

And, if you're clever, a small flat rate box will fir inside a biggish flat rate envelope further reducing costs.

Steve B

[irv]

Originally Posted by sedin26

To Canada, minimum return shipping was going to be $46! I wonder if any group subs take Canadian submissions, perhaps with more tacked on for extra shipping cost.

I regret not utilizing SGC's CDN shipping system they once had in place.
There was a place/guy right here in my home town of Oshawa who shipped cards for CDN collectors to SGC.

I called and talked to SGC, and likely the only reason I didn't do it, was I had to ship my cards to him, I couldn't just drop them off, which didn't make a lot of sense to me, (but at the same time, I guess I understood to a degree) living in the same, relatively, small city as him.

My conclusion, and it's only if I ever decide to get my cards graded/slabbed, is to take a vacation to the sunny south and have them done while I am there.

I get paranoid about shipping them south, plus the added shipping costs, so this is the best scenario for me, I've concluded.