As said before by another Canadian, tracking causes the costs to jump threefold. I have 120 trades completed or on the way and every package has reached destination. Only one took an incredible amount of time and that was to another Canadian address, go figure. Maybe the sleigh dogs were on wtrikein his area.
As for packaging, I can send 18 cards in a business PWE reinforced with cerealbox board for the cost of international letter postage. Either you are all too polite to complain or they all got to destination without damage. I have received my packaging back from some in additional trades.
Bruno
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Check my Profile page to see my 2023 Goals and my Lists of sets near completion (5 cards or less) or sets getting close (less than 100 cards missing and 75% complete).
https://www.tcdb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/B/ID/0/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=25745&C=0