• Hi, I am the owner and main administrator of Styleforum. If you find the forum useful and fun, please help support it by buying through the posted links on the forum. Our main, very popular sales thread, where the latest and best sales are listed, are posted HERE

    Purchases made through some of our links earns a commission for the forum and allows us to do the work of maintaining and improving it. Finally, thanks for being a part of this community. We realize that there are many choices today on the internet, and we have all of you to thank for making Styleforum the foremost destination for discussions of menswear.
  • This site contains affiliate links for which Styleforum may be compensated.
  • STYLE. COMMUNITY. GREAT CLOTHING.

    Bored of counting likes on social networks? At Styleforum, you’ll find rousing discussions that go beyond strings of emojis.

    Click Here to join Styleforum's thousands of style enthusiasts today!

    Styleforum is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

SoGent

Distinguished Member
Joined
Jan 8, 2012
Messages
1,678
Reaction score
444
Last edited:

omgitswes

Senior Member
Joined
Apr 3, 2010
Messages
505
Reaction score
795
Maybe someone here can clear this up for me.

Why is Fedex Priority cheaper to the US than USPS? USPS says it'll take longer but it's more expensive. Reason why I ask is because most people seem to agree that USPS doesn't charge you a customs fee, so in order to avoid that I was going to choose USPS as my shipping option.
 

smoothie1

Distinguished Member
Joined
Nov 2, 2011
Messages
1,514
Reaction score
311
Yes. FedEx will hit you with a hefty fee. USPS can take a long time in some cases. But usps is the better option on a cost basis.
 

BootSpell

Distinguished Member
Joined
May 9, 2012
Messages
2,539
Reaction score
383
^ USPS delivered my boots a week ago with no fees and it tool 8 days from Stockholm to Texas.
 

omgitswes

Senior Member
Joined
Apr 3, 2010
Messages
505
Reaction score
795
Yeah I figured that much, was just curious in the reasoning for the price difference between the two. Seems like I may be saving money using USPS anyway, even though it originally costs more.
 

omgitswes

Senior Member
Joined
Apr 3, 2010
Messages
505
Reaction score
795
I was looking at Carmina but decided to hold off for a few weeks. But they gave me the option of Fedex or USPS with USPS bet 150 SEK more than Fed ex
 

Leaves

Affiliate Vendor
Affiliate Vendor
Joined
Sep 13, 2010
Messages
6,505
Reaction score
6,689

Maybe someone here can clear this up for me.

Why is Fedex Priority cheaper to the US than USPS? USPS says it'll take longer but it's more expensive. Reason why I ask is because most people seem to agree that USPS doesn't charge you a customs fee, so in order to avoid that I was going to choose USPS as my shipping option.



Yeah I figured that much, was just curious in the reasoning for the price difference between the two. Seems like I may be saving money using USPS anyway, even though it originally costs more.


Regular post (USPS for US clients) is simply more expensive for us to use. We have a good contract with FedEx and that's why it's cheaper to use. Customs fee to the US is 8.5% so its actually not that bad.

It's only a matter of time until we will have to discontinue the USPS option, both EG and Carmina is putting some pressure on us to stop this because USPS is so lousy in regards of collecting customs. For StC we have already stopped because they demanded this.
 

budapest12

Distinguished Member
Joined
Dec 20, 2012
Messages
5,980
Reaction score
4,494
Hard to capture the greatness on my lousy phone. Will try again when no crying children...

600
 
Last edited:

Featured Sponsor

How important is full vs half canvas to you for heavier sport jackets?

  • Definitely full canvas only

    Votes: 81 36.8%
  • Half canvas is fine

    Votes: 83 37.7%
  • Really don't care

    Votes: 23 10.5%
  • Depends on fabric

    Votes: 35 15.9%
  • Depends on price

    Votes: 36 16.4%

Staff online

Forum statistics

Threads
506,289
Messages
10,587,866
Members
224,164
Latest member
muejnkfabet
Top