Shipping costs

[scac]

Good morning,

to buy&sell coins I always struggle with shipping costs and I would like to have your feeling on what a reasonable price for shipping in Europe could be.

I am talking about a shipping of max 1 kg silver each (bars or coins), I am located in Italy and a private courier is around 15 euro, maybe 12 if I have more than one shipping a time, and when you sell 1 oz coin the weight of shipping cost is too high.

Going to public postal service you can save a couple of euro, but impact on delivery time could be significant and in my opinion it's not worth.

Let me know your experiences and thank you.

Fabio

 

[xct]

I try to buy or sell local if it is a small amount. 

[Samarium]

I've found Italy to have the most expensive post in Europe. Sometimes the parts I need to buy for my motorbikes are located in Italy. It's just prohibitively expensive and usually cheaper to buy it from the USA/Canada. Never understood what the deal was with Italy's post.