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International Mail Update…Again

Two dead fish on wet rocks.

Our new international insured rates from FedEx are about as bad as finding a dead fish in your bed, but you’ll love having your pens arrive in about a week, once again. We think these are alewife fish or shad left behind with the tide.

Good news, bad news. Our international orders have been taking 4 to 6 months to arrive due to Covid-19 and its effect on the United States Postal Service. As nobody wants to wait that long to get an awesome new pen, we have had to switch to FedEx for international deliveries.

The good news is that FedEx will get your pen almost anywhere in the world in about a week. The bad news is that it costs three times as much money for their services. As we can no longer guarantee the timely delivery of international orders through USPS, we have switched our international shipper to FedEx. Sadly, that means a drastic spike in insured international rates. It will now cost roughly $150 to send a pen anywhere in the world. If it costs less, we’ll refund the difference after FedEx and PayPal fees have been accounted for.

The good news for American customers is that our current uninsured and insured USPS rates remain unaffected.

To our international customers, as soon as USPS resumes normal international service, we will revert back to the cheaper rates at the same speedy delivery rates you were used to before Covid-19.

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