I need to send a package via Air Freight from Rapid City, South Dakota to Kingsgrove NSW 1480 Australia.

There is 3 boxes of the following:
Box size is 18-1/2" x 8-1/2" x 4-1/4"
Weight is 17 pounds (total is 51 pounds)

Can someone let me know the cost and the fastest delivery time?

Thanks.

Call FedEx ;)

are we bombing Australia now?

lol FedEx is trying to charge me a fortune. I reckon normal UPS is cheaper!

Interesting that UPS would be cheaper 0.0

lol FedEx is charging $700 AUD?

USPS is cheaper than UPS which is cheaper than FEDEX
Always.
Unless you have a high volume shipment account, in which case UPS is the cheapest.

Yeah, I see $714 for delivery on the 5th, $625 for delivery on the 10th with FedEx. USPS is $393 for 3-5 business days, $301 for 6-10 days.

I ship internationally at work a lot, and USPS is about half has expensive as UPS and Fedex- UPS and Fedex are almost always similar.

thats why USPS is broke and cost US tax payers hundreds of millions a year in bail outs

Nah, USPS just has sweetheart deals with local carriers- if UPS or Fedex ships, they have to take care of it the whole way, but USPS hands it off to the local carrier- it does result in more things being lost. We lose about 3-5% of packages shipped internationally through USPS, so everything high dollar goes through UPS.

+10

Diesel ranges from 4.09 to 4.51 here in West Coast :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/...ted_States_Postal_Service

"The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters."

Yes, hundreds of millions of dollars! End government waste, just because literally every other developed country in the world has a postal service doesn't mean we need one!

I hate when facts get in the way of some good ignorance.

You got my vote for dumbest American alive!!!
Congratulations you are now qualified to be in congress or even the white house.

I pray you are not actually American, else I now understand why every one else in the world think we are stupid.

DHL?

I've got a mate who lives in Kingsgrove, and I'm not far away myself

I would have assumed tax payers were subsidizing it. I know its billions in the red each year, any idea how it finances those deficits?

This is right up De1i's alley, PM him.

...What's in the boxes??? :P

Lol, awesome! I'd sure as hell rather pay for an entire year of postal service instead of a dozen F-22 Craptors. If the PO did not have to shell out 5.5B off the top every year for retirement benefits for the year 2087 (!!!), they would be breaking even.

Don't bother with USPS. They say 1 week, and then take 3-4.

American Postal is the way to go :)

DHL was always significantly cheaper then UPS/FedEx/USPS. from what i understand they stopped doing local transit and now do international only. check them out.

• The U.S. Postal Service, which predicts a $9 billion loss this year, may ask Congress to raise its $15 billion debt limit as a mandatory health-cost payment exhausts ...
http://www.newsmax.com/...se-Debt/2011/08/05/id/...
• Obama administration moves to save debt-ridden Postal Service from default ... “Are we going to fight about the Post Office, too?” Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass ...
thehill.com/...white-house-moves-to-save-postal-service-from-default
• May 11, 2011 • Postal borrowing limit to be reached by end of FY 2011. Regardless of layoffs and less volume of mail the agency lost $2.2 Billion in the first quarter of ...
burstupdates.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/post-office-drowning-in-debt
• Mar 02, 2010 • The Post Office was $10 billion in debt as of Sept. 30 -- not far off from its $15 billion debt limit, which the agency expects to hit in its 2011 fiscal year.
money.cnn.com/2010/03/02/news/economy/usps •

Most of the losses aren't cash items, but the company is deep in negative equity and needs to come up with some fancy tricks ASAP. It does however benefit from implicit (or possibly explicit, haven't checked) government guarantees when issuing debt, kind of like FNMA.

How on earth do you make the jump from "being in debt" to "taxpayer bailout"?