Well, as I said a seller can forego the seller protection and ship without receiving any proof that the package is delivered and pass the savings from the cheaper shipping to the buyer, but if you want tracking on international shipments from US, that's expensive.

2-3 years ago when I sold some of my razors a lot of them went internationally. At that time it cost virtually the same whether you shipped first class to your town or to the other end of the world, you just didn't get delivery confirmation abroad, but you occasionally got tracking through the customs form number along part of the way.

It was also a fairly good deal to send expensive (hundreds of dollars) razors internationally - express mail with insurance got there in a couple of days and cost less than $30.

This simply is no longer the case, and the international postage from US has increased significantly.