[Rare Iron]

I've got a guy in Australia wanting me to ship him some Ford 15x6.5" steel wheels. I ship everything international via the USPS, but they have gotten WAAAAY out of control on their rates. For me to ship these wheels to him (25 lbs. ea.) is $148.90 PER wheel, plus add a few bucks for some misc. charges they add on. This is RIDICULOUS! 5 wheels shipping = $750.00!

Just for the heck of it, I looked at what past wheel shipments cost me to foreign countries. In March 2007, it cost $110.00 for me to ship 4 GM 14x6" wheels to Germany. Those same 4 wheels today would cost $300.00 to send to Germany. What is going on with the USPS?

Does anybody know of a more reasonable way to get items like this overseas? Forget FedEx or UPS international - I've given up on them for anything out of the country. Take their quotes & add about 40% to them. Both wheels & mufflers are getting crazy expensive to ship anywhere but inside the US. Lately I've been getting orders out of NZ & Australia for my Cobrapack mufflers, but they are a hard sell because of the prohibitive shipping costs! HELP!

End of rant.