Originally Posted by
sheepfarmer
With the flat rate envelopes I usually buy material up to the limit a seller says it will hold usually too. So in saying all this, the small increase will not deter me from buying from the US
A problem with that here is that if the value of a package is declared at more than 25-30 dollars, it's likely to get stopped by Customs and duty charged. The time that happened to me, it was weeks before the parcel turned up, and it cost me so much that it cancelled out any saving on the fabric.